The Week Ahead is a detailed listing of key events of the coming week affecting RFE/RL's broadcast region.
MONDAY, April 11:
Armenia: OSCE Minsk Group co-chairs visit Yerevan (to April 12).
Pakistan/U.S.: Head of Pakistani intelligence General Ahmed Shuja Pasha visits the United States and is expected to meet with the head of the CIA.
Pakistan/Turkey: Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari pays an official visit to Turkey (to April 14).
Russia/Poland: Russian President Dmitry Medvedev meets his Polish counterpart Bronislaw Komorowski in Smolensk.
Serbia: Serbian President Boris Tadic visits Kuwait.
Tajikistan: U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asia Affairs Robert Blake visits Dushanbe.
World: World Bank publishes its annual World Development Report.
TUESDAY, April 12:
Azerbaijan: U.S. Defense Threat Reduction Agency Director Kenneth Myers pays an official visit to Azerbaijan.
Russia: Fiftieth anniversary of Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin's first-ever manned orbital flight.
Russia/Ukraine: Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin visits Kyiv, meets Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych.
WEDNESDAY, April 13:
Azerbaijan: OSCE Minsk Group co-chairs visit Baku.
Russia: Russian President Dmitry Medvedev pays a working visit to China, visits Hong Kong (to April 17).
Ukraine: Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk visits Kyiv, meets Ukrainian Prime Minister Mykola Azarov.
THURSDAY, April 14:
Georgia: NATO-Georgia commission on the foreign ministerial level to be held on the sidelines of a NATO foreign ministers’ meeting in Berlin.
Kazakhstan/India: Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh visits Astana to hold talks with Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbaev.
Russia: An energy deal between Russian oil company Rosneft and BP, under which a share-swap agreement will terminate, expires.
World: Leaders from Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa meet in the Chinese coastal city Sanya for BRICS Summit.
FRIDAY, April 15:
Balkans: UN war crimes tribunal is scheduled to deliver its verdict in the cases of Croatian generals Ante Gotovina, Ivan Cermak, and Mladen Markac.
SATURDAY, April 16:
Azerbaijan/Iran/Turkey: Foreign ministers of Azerbaijan, Iran, and Turkey to hold a meeting in Urumiyeh, Iran.
Serbia: Serbian Progress Party (SNS) stages demonstration in Belgrade calling for early elections.
World: Prague Writers' Festival opens (to April 20).
SUNDAY, April 17:
Iraq/Czech Republic: Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari visits Prague (to April 20).
Kyrgyzstan: Local elections.
MONDAY, April 11:
Armenia: OSCE Minsk Group co-chairs visit Yerevan (to April 12).
Pakistan/U.S.: Head of Pakistani intelligence General Ahmed Shuja Pasha visits the United States and is expected to meet with the head of the CIA.
Pakistan/Turkey: Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari pays an official visit to Turkey (to April 14).
Russia/Poland: Russian President Dmitry Medvedev meets his Polish counterpart Bronislaw Komorowski in Smolensk.
Serbia: Serbian President Boris Tadic visits Kuwait.
Tajikistan: U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asia Affairs Robert Blake visits Dushanbe.
World: World Bank publishes its annual World Development Report.
TUESDAY, April 12:
Azerbaijan: U.S. Defense Threat Reduction Agency Director Kenneth Myers pays an official visit to Azerbaijan.
Russia: Fiftieth anniversary of Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin's first-ever manned orbital flight.
Russia/Ukraine: Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin visits Kyiv, meets Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych.
WEDNESDAY, April 13:
Azerbaijan: OSCE Minsk Group co-chairs visit Baku.
Russia: Russian President Dmitry Medvedev pays a working visit to China, visits Hong Kong (to April 17).
Ukraine: Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk visits Kyiv, meets Ukrainian Prime Minister Mykola Azarov.
THURSDAY, April 14:
Georgia: NATO-Georgia commission on the foreign ministerial level to be held on the sidelines of a NATO foreign ministers’ meeting in Berlin.
Kazakhstan/India: Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh visits Astana to hold talks with Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbaev.
Russia: An energy deal between Russian oil company Rosneft and BP, under which a share-swap agreement will terminate, expires.
World: Leaders from Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa meet in the Chinese coastal city Sanya for BRICS Summit.
FRIDAY, April 15:
Balkans: UN war crimes tribunal is scheduled to deliver its verdict in the cases of Croatian generals Ante Gotovina, Ivan Cermak, and Mladen Markac.
SATURDAY, April 16:
Azerbaijan/Iran/Turkey: Foreign ministers of Azerbaijan, Iran, and Turkey to hold a meeting in Urumiyeh, Iran.
Serbia: Serbian Progress Party (SNS) stages demonstration in Belgrade calling for early elections.
World: Prague Writers' Festival opens (to April 20).
SUNDAY, April 17:
Iraq/Czech Republic: Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari visits Prague (to April 20).
Kyrgyzstan: Local elections.