INTERFAX-ANNOUNCEMENTS-WEEK
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The bulletin comes out weekly. This is issue No. 31
MONDAY, August 6, 2012
In Moscow:
Events due at RIA Novosti (4, Zubovsky boulevard, phone: 8495-645-6472):
11 a.m. Press conference
Subject: Culture in Moscow region
Speaker: Moscow Region Culture Minister A. Gubankov
1 p.m. Press conference
Subject: Situation in Syria
Speaker: Syrian Ambassador to Russia R. Haddad
Ninth Arbitration Court of Appeals to hear Rosneft minority shareholder A. Navalny’s appeal against court ruling allowing the company not to provide documents to him
Noon. News conference.
Subject: Central Moscow’s socioeconomic development in the first half of 2012. hat has changed in central Molscow?
Speaker: Prefect of the city’s Central Administrative District S. Baidakov.
Venue: Komsomolskaya Pravda Publishing House/
Address: Stary Petrovsko-Razumovsky Proyezd 1/23.
Tel.: 8 (495) 786-6788, 665-7531; 637-6482.
Noon. Day of Japan.
Venue: Flakon design plant.
Tel.: 8(495) 790-7901.
10 a.m. Vice Governor of the Moscow Region R. Tsalikov holds an intercome conference with the heads of municipal districts.
Venue: Moscow regional government headquarters.
Address: Krasnogorsk.
10 a.m. Russian air crews have the first training ahead of the Common Sky air show to be held on August 12.
Venue: Gromov Flight-Testing center
Address: Zhukovsky
Reporters gather at the institute’s Canteen No.1 at 8:30 a.m.
Tel.: 8 (495) 524-3531; t-mail: vvs-press@yandex.ru
Accreditation underway for covering work of education camp
Date: August 13-17
Organizer: Young Guards
Participants: CEC chairman V. Churov, United Russia party high-ranking officials A. Vorobyov, A. Isayev, Rossotrudnivhestvo chief K. Kosachyov
Venue: Lipetsk region
Phone: 8903-597-6046
E-mail: mger.press@gmail.com
In Russia and worldwide:
The Supreme Court of Kabardino-Balkaria pronounces the verdict in the murder of prominent religious figure, Islamic Institute rector and Vice Chairman of the Islamic Board of Karachayevo-Cherkessia and Stavropol territory I.Bostanov in September 2009
Chebarkul firing range (Chelyabinsk region),
August 6-10: Boundaries 2012 drills of Collective Rapid Reaction Forces
Kurchatov (Kazakhstan),
August 6-10: Conference
Subject: Monitoring of nuclear tests and their consequences
TUESDAY, August 7, 2012
In Moscow:
10 a.m. Roundtable
Subject: Role of new materials and technologies in military aviation
Participants: Officials from Defense Ministry, Education and Science Ministry, Rostekhnologii, Rosatom, MPs, senators
Venue: Institute of Aviation Materials (17, Radio street)
Phone: 8499-263-8998
E-mail: press@viam.ru
11 a.m. Press conference
Subject: Hot summer 2012. Ensuring fire safety
Venue: MK press center (7, Ulitsa 1905 Goda street)
Phone/fax: 8495-781-4712
E-mail: sos@mk.ru
Noon Press conference
Subject: Measures to ensure public order at celebration of 100th of Russian Air Force in Zhukovsky
Speaker: Deputy chief of Moscow region police A. Lipilin, deputy head of Moscow region traffic police V. Mishin
Venue: Interfax (2, Pervaya Tverskaya-Yamskaya street)
Phone: 8499-250-8832
Noon. Press conference
Subject: “The results of the 2012 admissions campaign. The merger of higher-education institutions”
Speakers: rectors and deans from the Financial University under the Russian government, Moscow Lomonosov State University, Plekhanov Russian Economic University, and others
Venue: Rossiiskaya Gazeta press center (24 Pravda Street, bldg. 4)
Phone: (499) 257-59-79; e-mail: pr@rg.ru.
8 p.m. Concert by U.S. singer Madonna
Venue: Olympiisky Sport Complex СК (16 Olympiisky Prospekt, bldg. 2).
Tverskoi District Court to hear case against Butyrka pre-trial detention center deputy chief D. Kratov charged with death of Hermitage Capital lawyer S. Magnitsky
The Russian Supreme Court to hold a hearing of a complaint against the verdict by the Krasnodar Territory Court against a member of the so-called Tsapka’s gang, V. Ryabtsev.
2 p.m. Accreditation ends for session of Prosecutor’s General Office board
Subject: Results of prosecutors’ offices in H1
Time: 10 a.m. on August 8
Participants: Prosecutor General Yu. Chaika, presidential administration chief S. Ivanov, Deputy Prime Minister V. Surkov, Federation Council deputy speaker A. Torshin
Venue: Prosecutor’s General Office (14, Petrovka street)
Fax: 8495-987-5841
E-mail: ussgprf@gmail.com
In Russia and worldwide:
Velsk district court to hear motion of ex-Menatep head P. Lebedev’s lawyers to mitigate his punishment
Novosibirsk,
Preliminary court hearings in the case against Novosibirsk deputy mayor A. Solodkin and his father, former chief expert in physical education and sports at the Novosibirsk region administration (A. Solodkin Sr.), both accused of links to organized crime.
Ukraine,
Meeting
Subject: Verkhovna Rada bill on principles of language policy
Participants: Ukrainian President V. Yanukovych, public figures
WEDNESDAY, August 8, 2012
In Moscow:
Meeting
Participants: President V. Putin, Armenian President S. Sargsyan
10 a.m. Session of Prosecutor’s General Office board
Subject: Results of prosecutors’ offices in H1
Participants: Prosecutor General Yu. Chaika, presidential administration chief S. Ivanov, Deputy Prime Minister V. Surkov, Federation Council deputy speaker A. Torshin
Venue: Prosecutor’s General Office (14, Petrovka street)
Fax: 8495-987-5841
E-mail: ussgprf@gmail.com
Noon. Press conference
Subject: “The start of the Moscow-Paris horse campaign in honor of the 200th anniversary of the 1812 Patriotic war.”
Speakers: A. Belyanov, head of the Russian Federal Customs Service (FTS), chairman of the campaign’s organizing committee; S. Shishkaryov, deputy chairman of the organizing committee, member of the trustees’ board at the Russian Patrimony Foundation; P. Moshchalkov, deputy chairman of the organizing committee; L. Malev, Director of the Academic Ensemble of Song and Dance of the Russian Army.
Venue: ITAR TASS (4 Tverskoi boulevard)
Phone: (495) 629-64-03; 692-15-22.
2 p.m. Presentation of a Civil Rights Committee project
Title: “Volunteers at the service of the society in conducting public monitoring of prisons”
Venue: the Independent Press Center (17/9 Prechistenka Street)
Attendees: A. Babushkin, a Public Council member at the Interior Ministry’s Main Directorate for Moscow, deputy chairman of the public monitoring commission in Moscow, chairman of the Civil Rights Committee; V. Borshchyov, Chairman of the Moscow Public Monitoring Commission; V. Gabisov, President of the Association of Humanization of Law Enforcement Agencies; and others
Phone: 232-28-91; 637-31-26; e-mail: yakovlevapress@yandex.ru; yakovleva@infolegal.ru.
Tverskoi Court to declare a verdict in the case over the 2010 riots in Manezh Square during an event to commemorate Spartak FC fan Y. Sviridov killed in a brawl.
In Russia and worldwide:
Tyumen,
Press conference at Interfax/Tyumen Line news agency joint press center
Subject: Electronic services in social sphere
Estonia,
An extraordinary parliamentary session
Agenda: a bill ratifying an agreement on accession to the European Stabilization Mechanism.
THURSDAY, August 9, 2012
In Moscow:
Noon Press conference
Subject: Energy efficient and affordable houses
Speaker: Public utility service reform assistance fund general director K. Tsitsin
Venue: Rossiiskaya Gazeta (24/4, Pravdy street)
Phone: 8985-225-1850, 8495-651-6542
E-mail: pressa@fondgkh.ru
Noon. Moscow taxi drivers to hold a rally to draw public and official attention to their problems
Venue: Suvorov Square (metro station: Dostoyevskaya)
2 p.m. Press conference
Subject: Results of Moscow region department of Federal Anti-monopoly Service in H1
Speaker: Moscow region department of Federal Anti-monopoly Service chief I. Bashlakov-Nikolayev
Venue: 44, Karamyshevskaya embankment street
Phone: 8499-500-1537
Basmanny District Court to hear complaint from blogger A. Navalny seeking to overturn decision to resume Kirovles criminal case
In Russia and worldwide:
St. Petersburg,
A concert by U.S. singer Madonna
FRIDAY, August 10, 2012
In Moscow:
9 a.m. A meeting held by G. Onishchenko, head of the consumer rights watchdog (Rospotrebnadzor)
Agenda: “Preparing general-education institutions for the 2012/2013 academic year and the 3rd shift of the 2012 summer health campaign”
Venue: 18 Vadkovsky Pereulok
Noon Opening ceremony
Subject: Russian Fair of Honey
Venue: Kolomenskoye park
Phone: 8916-368-1746, 8916-938-1437
3 p.m. The opening of the first festival of street theater and carnival culture
Venue: Bauman Garden
Simonovsky District Court to start trial in absentia of ex-Yukos shareholder L. Nevzlin
August 10-12: flight demonstrations by combat aircraft, aerobatic teams, parachutists, etc. as part of celebration of the 100th anniversary of the Russian Air Force. The event will also include two air shows: “World aviation legends” and “A common sky”
Venue: Zhukovsky, Moscow region
In Russia and worldwide:
Zhukovsky (Moscow region),
August 10-12: Celebration of 100th anniversary of Russian Air Force
Ashuluk firing range (Astrakhan region),
August 10-16: Second stage of drills of air and space defense
Kyiv (Ukraine),
Pechersky District Court to hear case against ex-Ukrainian Interior Minister Yu. Lutsenko
SATURDAY, August 11, 2012
In Moscow:
No announcement yet available
In Russia and worldwide:
Novorossiisk,
August 10-12: Visit by Northern Fleet ships after voyage in Mediterranean Sea
SUNDAY, August 12, 2012
In Moscow:
Zhukovsky (Moscow region),
August 10-12: Celebration of 100th anniversary of Russian Air Force
In Russia and worldwide:
No announcement yet available
