The Week Ahead is a detailed listing of key events of the coming week affecting RFE/RL's broadcast region.
EU: Brussels hosts an EU Foreign Affairs Council meeting.
EU: European Policy Center in Brussels hosts a discussion titled Preserving Peace And Security: Searching For Assertive Answers To Hybrid Challenges.
EU/Iran: EU foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini hosts a meeting with the foreign ministers of Germany, France, U.K., and Iran in Brussels.
EU/Moldova: Moldovan Prime Minister Chiril Gaburici visits Brussels, attends EU-Moldova Association Council meeting.
Russia: The UN Human Rights Committee meets to review Russia (to March 17).
Russia/Kyrgyzstan: Russian President Vladimir Putin meets Kyrgyz President Almazbek Atambaev in St. Petersburg.
Ukraine: OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities Astrid Thors travels to the eastern and southern regions of Ukraine (to March 20).
Ukraine/Germany: Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko visits Berlin.
U.S./Iran: U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif meet in Lausanne for talks to secure an agreement on Iran's controversial nuclear program.
TUESDAY, March 17:
Israel: Parliamentary elections.
Russia/Georgia: The 31st round of regional peace talks between Georgia and Russia starts in Geneva (to March 18).
Ukraine: Council of Europe Secretary-General Thorbjorn Jagland visits Kyiv (to March 18).
WEDNESDAY, March 18:
Armenia: EU Commissioner for European Neighborhood Policy and Enlargement Negotiations Johannes Hahn visits Yerevan.
Georgia: Georgian President Giorgi Margvelashvili is expected deliver his annual report to the parliament in Tbilisi.
Russia/Georgia: Russian President Vladimir Putin meets with breakaway Georgian region of South Ossetia's leader Leonid Tibilov in Moscow.
U.S./Azerbaijan/Turkey: Freedom House in Washington hosts a discussion titled Independent Media And Civil Society In Turkey And Azerbaijan.
THURSDAY, March 19:
EU: EU leaders meet for the European Council to discuss further orientations in view of building an Energy Union (to March 20).
Iraq: Iraqi Foreign Minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari visits Moscow (to March 20).
U.S./Iran: U.S. House Committee on Foreign Affairs holds a hearing titled Iran And Hezbollah In The Western Hemisphere.
U.S./Iran: U.S. House Committee on Foreign Affairs holds a hearing titled Blocking Or Paving Tehran’s Path To Nuclear Weapons?
U.S./Ukraine: The Wilson Center in Washington hosts a discussion titled The War In Ukraine: The Roots Of Russian Conduct.
FRIDAY, March 20:
Global: An annual high-level meeting of the North American and European political, corporate, and intellectual leaders opens in Brussels (to March 22).
Kazakhstan/Belarus/Russia: Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbaev meets with Belarusian President Alyaksandr Lukashenka and Russian President Vladimir Putin in Astana.
SATURDAY, March 21:
Georgia: The United National Movement opposition party holds a protest rally in Tbilisi.
UNESCO: World Poetry Day.
SUNDAY, March 22:
Afghanistan/U.S.: Afghan President Ashraf Ghani and Chief Executive Officer Abdullah Abdullah visit Washington (to March 25).
UN: World Water Day.