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Events due in Moscow, Russia, CIS and Baltic countries on August 20 2012

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MONDAY, August 20, 2012

In Moscow:

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov pays a working visit to Finland.

1 p.m. Moscow – Kyiv video link-up

Subject: Russian language in Ukraine. First results of language law

Participants: Political analysts, sociologists, experts

Venue: RIA Novosti (4, Zubovsky boulevard)

Phone: 8495-645-6472

4 p.m. An exhibition of gems opens at Pushkin Fine Arts Museum.

Address: Ul. Volkhonka 12.

Tel.: 8 (495) 697- 2214. E-mail: press@artsmuseum.ru.

Moscow Region Court to hear criminal case into January 2011 terrorist attack at Domodedovo airport

Farewell ceremony

Subject: Russian athletes leaving for London Paralympic Games

Venue: Great Patriotic War Central Museum (10, Bratyev Fonchenko street)

10 a.m. Moscow Region Vice Governor A.Sharov holds a video conference with the heads of the region’s municipal entities.

Subject: Allotting plots of land to large families, the transfer of the Defense Ministry’s garrisons, infrastructure to municipal entities.

Address: Krasnogorsk-7, Bulvar Stroitelei 1.

Tel.: 8 (498) 6062-2867, 8-903-686-5041; e-mail: perevalova@mosreg.ru

August 20-24. A festival of educational workers under the League of Education partnership’s aegis.

Venue: Pavlovskaya Gymnasium.

Address:Velednikovo, Pavlo-Slobodsky rural district.

Tel.: 8 (499) 502-1722. E-mail: mail@eleague.ru

In Russia and worldwide:

August 20 to 26. A “Wave of Health” action aboard the Yury Nikulin cruise boat from Samara to Astrakhan past Saratov and Volgograd, where medical consultations will be offered for free to local residents.

The Krasnodar Territorial Court holds preliminary hearings of the Tsapok gang case.

Yekaterinburg.

Final rehearsals ahead of the Oborona i Zashchita defense show.

Tyumen,

Press confine at Interfax/Tyumen Line news agency joint press center

Subject: Modern approaches to medical insurance in Tyumen region

Novosibirsk.

Court hearings of the case of prominent businessman and crime baron Antonov.

Finland,

Visit by Foreign Minister S. Lavrov

Kyiv (Ukraine),

Meeting of security sub-committee of Russian-Ukrainian interstate commission

Participant: Defense Minister A. Serdyukov

Estonia marks the 21st anniversary of the restoration of independence.

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