INTERFAX-ANNOUNCEMENTS-WEEK
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The bulletin comes out weekly. This is issue No. 32
MONDAY, August 13, 2012
In Moscow:
Noon Meeting
Participants: Deputy head of Federation Council agriculture committee A. Chernyshev, head of South Korean National Assembly committee for labor and environment Shin Geh Ryeun
Venue: Federation Council (26, Bolshaya Dmitrovka street)
Phone: 8495-1877, 8495-692-4145, 8495-692-7525
Fax: 8495-692-4305
9 a.m. A mourning service for stage director Pyotr Fomenko.
Venue: Pyotr Fomenko Theater Studio
Address: Naberezhnaya Tarasa Shevchenko.
Fomenko will be buried at Moscow’s Vagankovskoye cemetery.
Noon Press conference
Subject: Conditions of labor and social support in Russia
Speaker: Rosstat deputy chief K. Laikam and others
Venue: RIA Novosti (4, Zubovsky boulevard)
Phone: 8495-645-6472
E-mail: accreditation@rian.ru
8 p.m. The Russian official Olympic delegation arrives at Terminal D of the Sheremetyevo Airport.
Tel.: 578-8585; 8-926-997-1263; 8-925-008-3061. E-mail: pressa@svo.aero; Smirnova@roc.ru
In Russia and worldwide:
Lipetsk region,
August 13-17: Gvardeisk federal education camp
Organizer: Young Guards
Participants: High-ranking United Russia members S. Neverov, A. Vorobyev, CEC chairman V. Churov, Rossotrudnichestvo chief K. Kosachyov
Yekaterinburg,
Press conference at Interfax
Subject: Results of Sverdlovsk region transport prosecutor’s office in H1
Online broadcast at http://213.242.250.20
Ulyanovsk,
Leninsky District Court to hear complaint from opposition figure S. Udaltsov against verdict in case of beating a female student
Novosibirsk,
Press conference at Interfax
Subject: Use of personal biometric data of debtors being searched
TUESDAY, August 14, 2012
In Moscow:
10 a.m. Public hearings
Subject: Draft bill on industrial waste and recoverable resources
Venue: Public Chamber (7/1, Miusskaya square)
Phone: 8495-221-8361
11 a.m. Presentation
Subject: Risks and consequences of oil spills in Arctic region. Example of Prirazlomnaya oil rig
Participants: Greenpeace International executive director K. Naidoo, WWF Russia director I. Chestin and others
Venue: RIA Novosti (4, Zubovsky boulevard)
Phone: 8495-645-6472
E-mail: accreditation@rian.ru
Events due at Komsomolskaya Pravda Publishing House (Stary Petrovsko-Razumovsky Proyezd 1/23). Tel. 8 (495) 786-6788; 665-7531; 637-6482):
Noon. News conference
Subject: 2012 student admission campaign.
Speakers: university rectors, others.
4 p.m. News conference.
Subject: International tourism. Cultural figures’ role in promoting Russian-Chinese tourism.
Speakers: Rosturizm deputy head Ye. Pisarevsky, Chinese artists.
Events due at Independent Press Center (17/9, Prechistenka street, phone: 8495-232-2891, 8495-637-3126, e-mail: yakovlevapress@yandex.ru, yakovleva@infolegal.ru):
Noon Press conference
Subject: August 16 is official date of launching revolutionary referendum in Russia
Speakers: Forum of Left Forces coordination committee members A. Abramovich, A. Baranov
2 p.m. Press conference
Subject: Repression of public activist Nikolai Kavkazsky
Speakers: Nikolai Kavkazsky’s lawyer
4 p.m. Roundtable
Subject: Corporate volunteers and socially oriented businesses
Participants: Businessmen, officials
Venue: Moscow office of Delovaya Rossiya (10/2, Yauzskaya street)
Phone: 8495-682-4416, 8903-260-8210
E-mail: org10@ingener.ru
Moscow Regional Court to hold preliminary hearings into case on Domodedovo terrorist attack on January 24, 2011
Moscow’s Zamoskvoretsky Court pronounces a verdict on world wrestling champion R.Mirzayev believed to have killed 19 year-old Muscovite I.Agafonov.
In Russia and worldwide:
Tyumen,
Press conference at Interfax/Tyumen Line news agency joint press center
Subject: Expedition to explore Russia’s northern territories ‘Following Bering’
Kharkiv (Ukraine),
Kyivsky District Court to hear second criminal case against ex-Ukrainian Prime Minister Yu. Tymoshenko
A court of appeals in Kyiv hears ex-acting defense minister V.Ivashechenko’s appeal.
A court of appeals in Odesa hears A.Osmayev’s extradition case. Osmayev is the chief suspect in the criminal case connected with Russian President Vladimir Putin’s attempted assassination.
WEDNESDAY, August 15, 2012
In Moscow:
8 a.m. Video conference
Subject: Results of Rospotrebnadzor in H1
Participant: Rospotrebnadzor chief G. Onishchenko
11 a.m. Press preview of the film “Neuderzhimiye” (The Unstoppable)
Venue: Karo Film Atrium (33 Zemlyanoi Val St)
Phone: 739-00-75 (ext.1024, 1012, 1018); 8-915-001-84-53; 8-915-241-57-46; 8-919-991-45-26; e-mail: Maria.Kozhevina@nbcuni.com; Anastasia.Ilovayskaya@nbcuni.com; Tatiana.Remneva@nbcuni.com.
11 a.m. A press breakfast
Subject: preparations for the children’s creativity festival “Yarkiye Lyudi” (Bright People)
Venue: Bulka Restaurant (Gorky Park, metro station: Park Kultury)
Attendees: директор O. Zakharova, Gorky Park Director; Y. Muravitsky, festival’s chief director; K. Bochavar, the project’s Art Curator and Head Artist; and others
Phone: (495) 797-4-222 (ext. 6795); 916-998-87-68.
Events at the Interfax head office (2 Pervaya Tverskaya-Yamskaya St; phone: (499) 250-88-32):
Noon. Press conference in the form of a video link-up between Damascus and Moscow
Subject: “Syria, the holy land of prophets and apostles, under threat of international terrorists”
Speakers: F. Mekdad, Syrian Deputy Foreign Minister; A. Haydar, National Reconciliation Minister; Patriarch Ignatius IV of Antioch; Syria’s Grand Mufti Ahmad Badr al-Din Hassun; D. Pakhomov, head of Christian Solidarity; K. Goloskokov, Commissioner of the Russian youth movement “Nashi”; N. Ibrahim, member of the Central Council of the National Union of Syrian Students, the Union’s President for Russia and the CIS;
2.30 p.m. Press conference
Subject: Development of agriculture companies in Big Moscow
Speaker: Moscow trade and services department chief A. Nemeryuk
Venue: Interfax (2, Pervaya Tverskaya-Yamskaya street)
Phone: 8499-250-8832
The Federal Anti-Monopoly Service to examine the case against the Russian Defense Ministry (in the person of the Russian Navy) over violation of the competition law.
In Russia and worldwide:
Novosibirsk,
A regional court to hold preliminary hearings in the case against the Solodkins accused of links with organized crime.
THURSDAY, August 16, 2012
In Moscow:
No announcement yet available
In Russia and worldwide:
Ukraine,
Ukrainian Supreme Specialized Court to hear appeal from ex-Ukrainian Prime Minister Yu. Tymoshenko against verdict in gas case
FRIDAY, August 17, 2012
In Moscow:
Khamovnichesky District Court to pronounce verdict in Pussy Riot case
International festival of cultures
Venue: Sokolniki park
In Russia and worldwide:
Lipetsk region,
The closing day of the Gvardeisk federal education forum of the United Russia’s Young Guards
The forum will include the fifth congress of the youth wing of the ruling party.
Tyumen,
Press conference at Interfax/Tyumen Line news agency joint press center
Subject: Prevention of social orphanage
The Pacific Ocean Fleet’s military court to form a jury in the case over the November 8, 2008 Nerpa submarine accident.
Kyiv, Ukraine
Pechersky District Court to deliver a verdict against ex-interior minister Yuriy Lutsenko charged with professional negligence in extending the inquiry against a chauffeur of an ex-deputy chief of the Ukrainian Security Service.
SATURDAY, August 18, 2012
In Moscow:
Noon Ecofest 2012
Venue: Stroginskaya flood plain
In Russia and worldwide:
No announcement yet available
SUNDAY, August 19, 2012
In Moscow:
8 a.m. Celebration of Eid al-Fitr
Venue: Sokolniki park
Phone: 8495-626-6309, 8926-365-7760
Yabloko Party leader S. Mitrokhin to hold a second public inspection of the developed sites of the State Forest Fund (Goslesfond) on Lake Nakhimovskoy (Vyborg district, Leningrad region). The inspection is organized by local residents and two movements, Against Seizure of Lakes and Open Shore
Phone/fax: 8 (495) 780-30-19; 8-903-270-29-02.
In Russia and worldwide:
No announcement yet available
