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
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
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
111 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 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
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
WEDNESDAY, August 15, 2012
In Moscow:
8 a.m. Video conference
Subject: Results of Rospotrebnadzor in H1
Participant: Rospotrebnadzor chief G. Onishchenko
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
In Russia and worldwide:
No announcement yet available
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:
Tyumen,
Press conference at Interfax/Tyumen Line news agency joint press center
Subject: Prevention of social orphanage
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
Action
Subject: Commemoration of victims of August 19, 1991 events
Venue: Intersection of Novy Arbat street and Garden Ring
In Russia and worldwide:
Leningrad region,
Public inspection of Nakhimovskoye Lake
Participant: Yabloko party leader S. Mitrokhin
Phone: 8495-780-3019, 8903-270-2902
