Trainings for veterinaries of three republics (NO-Alania, Ingushetia, Chechnya) at the Ministry of Agriculture of North Ossetia and and Training center in Dalakovo in Ingushetia under UNDP prgramme in the North Caucasus.

Release of a series of UNDP/GEF publications by the Kamchatka Salmon Conservation project «Economics of Salmon Fishery» (M. Ksenofontov, I. Goldenberg) and «Total economic value of Kamchatka salmon» (S. Bobylev, P. Kasyanov, S. Solovieva, A. Stetsenko)

Global Environment Facility (GEF) Project development workshop on Energy Efficient Lighting involving Russian energy authorities, private sector, energy efficiency professionals and international consultants

Forum on the Exchange of Experience in Development of Agrotourism in the framework of UNDP project ‘Sustainable Reintegration and Recovery in the North Caucasus’

Hearing of the draft of the 2008 National Human Development Report ‘Russia Facing Demographic Challengers’

Participation in the Regional UNESCO Heritage Workshop on the transboundary cooperation attended by the Governments of the Russian Federation, Kazakhstan, China and Mongolia, UNESCO, ICOMOS, IUCN, France, USA and Germany. UNDP/GEF Altay-Sayan project attended the workshop and made a presentation.

Presentation of the Moscow-based System for Export and Investment Promotion project outcomes at the Ministry of Economic Development of the Russian Federation

UNDP mission to Kamchatka for two UNDP/GEF projects: ‘Demonstrating sustainable conservation of biodiversity in four protected areas of Russian Kamchatka Krai’ and ‘Conservation and sustainable use of wild salmon diversity in Russian Kamchatka Peninsula’

Participation in the XXVII International AIDS Conference

Meeting of the national Inter-confessional Committee on AIDS