This week in DC.

Monday, February 4

The Woodrow Wilson Center (WWC)
Discussion on "The Shanghai Cooperation Organization and the West: Confrontation or Cooperation in Eurasia?" with Akihiro Iwashita, visiting fellow at the Brookings Institution and professor at the Slavic Research Center.
Location: WWC, One Woodrow Wilson Plaza, Ronald Reagan Building, 1300 Pennsylvania Ave., NW, Washington, D.C.. 12 noon

Tuesday, February 5

The Johns Hopkins University Paul Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS)
Discussion on "The Struggle for Independent Media in Russia: Beyond the Headlines," with Maria Eismont, director of the New Eurasia Foundation's Russian Independent Print Media Program. [Note: The public should RSVP to events@eurasia.org]
Location: SAIS, 1740 Massachusetts Ave., NW, Bernstein-Offit Building, Washington, D.C.. 3 p.m.

Wednesday, February 6

Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Korean Peninsula Denuclearization
Full committee hearing on "Status of the Six Party Talks for the Denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula."
Witnesses: Assistant Secretary of State for East Asia and Pacific Affairs Christopher Hill
Location: 419 Dirksen Senate Office Building. 9:30 a.m.

The Johns Hopkins University Paul Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS)
Discussion on "Russian Energy as a Foreign Policy Tool." [Note: The public should RSVP to 202-663-5795 or egerasimov@jhu.edu]
Participants: Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs Matthew Bryza
Location: SAIS, Rome Building, 1619 Massachusetts Ave., NW, Room 534, Washington, D.C.. 12:30 p.m.

The Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe (Helsinki Commission)
Hearing on ramifications of presidential elections in the Republic of Georgia.
Participants: Matthew Bryza, deputy assistant secretary of State for Europe and Eurasia; Vasili Sikhuralidze, ambassador of Georgia to the U.S.; and Salome Zurabishvili, former foreign minister of Georgia, now opposition leader and head of the "Georgia's Way" Party
Location: B-318 Rayburn House Office Building. 2:30 p.m.

Thursday, February 7

House Foreign Affairs Committee
Pending Business
Full committee markup of the "Global HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria Reauthorization Act of 2008"; legislation authorizing assistance for the export of independent documentaries regarding the United States; H.Res.185, expressing the sense of the House of Representatives regarding the creation of refugee populations in the Middle East, North Africa, and the Persian Gulf region as a result of human rights violations; H.Res.854, expressing gratitude to all of the member states of the International Commission of the International Tracing Service (ITS) on ratifying the May 2006 Agreement to amend the 1955 Bonn Accords granting open access to vast Holocaust and other World War II related archives located in Bad Arolsen, Germany; H.Res.865, expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that the March 2007 report of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime and the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development makes an important contribution to the understanding of the high levels of crime and violence in the Caribbean, and that the United States should work with Caribbean countries to address crime and violence in the region; H.Res.909, commemorating the courage of the Haitian soldiers that fought for American independence in the "Siege of Savannah" and for Haiti's independence and renunciation of slavery; H.Con.Res.154, expressing the sense of Congress that the fatal radiation poisoning of Russian dissident and writer Alexander Litvinenko raises significant concerns about the potential involvement of elements of the Russian Government in Mr. Litvinenko's death and about the security and proliferation of radioactive materials; H.Con.Res.55, expressing the sense of Congress regarding the United States commitment to preservation of religious and cultural sites and condemning instances where sites are desecrated; and H.Con.Res.278, supporting Taiwan's fourth direct and democratic presidential elections in March 2008.
Location: 1100 Longworth House Office Building. 1 p.m.