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The Week Ahead: April 8-14


April 12: International Day of Human Space Flight.
April 12: International Day of Human Space Flight.
The Week Ahead is a detailed listing of key events of the coming week affecting RFE/RL's broadcast region.

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MONDAY, April 8:

Armenia/Iran: Iranian Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi visits Yerevan (to April 9).

Azerbaijan/NATO: NATO's group of experts visits Baku (to April 12).

EU/Azerbaijan: EU Commissioner for Enlargement and European Neighborhood Policy Stefan Fuele receives Azerbaijani Deputy Foreign Minister Mahmud Mammad-Guliyev in Brussels.

Georgia/Czech Republic: Czech Foreign Minister Karel Schwarzenberg visits Tbilisi (to April 10).

Russia/Netherlands: Russian President Vladimir Putin visits Amsterdam.

U.S./Belarus: The Elliott School of International Affairs in Washington hosts a discussion titled "Belarus and the Neighborhood: Where is Democracy Possible?"

U.S./Middle East: U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry visits Jerusalem and Ramallah (to April 9).

U.S./Central Asia: U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs Mike Hammer visits Tajikistan and Uzbekistan (to April 15).

World: International Roma Day.


TUESDAY, April 9:

EU/Macedonia: Skopje hosts high-level accession dialogue meeting.

Armenia: Inauguration of Armenian President Serzh Sarkisian.

Iran: National Day of Nuclear Technology.

Kyrgyzstan/Turkey: Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan visits Bishkek (to April 10).

Russia/Serbia: Serbian Prime Minister Ivica Dacic visits Moscow, meets with Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev (to April 11).


WEDNESDAY, April 10:

Armenia/Czech Republic: Czech Foreign Minister Karel Schwarzenberg visits Yerevan (to April 12).

Georgia: A preliminary hearing in the criminal case against Tbilisi Mayor Gigi Ugulava is scheduled to begin in a Tbilisi court.

Georgia/NATO: Supreme Allied Commander of NATO forces in Europe, Admiral James Stavridis, is scheduled to visit Tbilisi.

EU/Belarus: EU Commissioner for Enlargement and European Neighborhood Policy Stefan Fuele receives Belarusian Deputy Foreign Minister Alena Kupchyna in Brussels.

UK: G8 ministerial meeting begins in London (to April 11).

Tajikistan/EU: Tajik President Emomali Rahmon meets with European Parliament President Martin Schulz in Brussels.

World: Amnesty International publishes its annual global death penalty statistics report.


THURSDAY, April 11:

Azerbaijan/Russia: The first World Forum of the Moscow Institute of International Relations (MGIMO) Alumni opens in Baku.

Ukraine: A joint Ukrainian-Polish conference on shale-gas production in Ukraine and Poland opens in Warsaw

EU/Bosnia-Herzegovina: EU Commissioner for Enlargement and European Neighborhood Policy Stefan Fuele visits Bosnia-Herzegovina.

Russia: Russian Supreme Court's appeals board considers the complaint filed by former State Duma deputy Gennady Gudkov, who was stripped of his mandate in September.


FRIDAY, April 12:

Ukraine: A Kharkiv court considers the criminal case on activities of the corporation United Energy Systems of Ukraine including charges against former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko.

UN: International Day of Human Space Flight.

U.S./Russia: Wilson Center in Washington hosts a discussion titled "The Future of Investigative Journalism in Russia."

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