INTERFAX-ANNOUNCEMENTS-FRIDAY
Bulletin is released Sunday to Friday. Issue No. 154
In Moscow:
Noon Meeting of organizing committee of congress
Title: Safety of traffic for safety of life
Participant: Federation Council speaker V. Matviyenko, Healthcare Minister V. Skvortsova, Interior Minister V. Kolokoltsev, Transport Minister M. Sokolov
Venue: Federation Council (26, Bolshaya Dmitrovka street)
Phone: 8495-692-1877, 8495-692-5604, 8495-692-7525
Fax: 8495-692-4305
E-mail: 6921877@mail.ru
Events due at State Duma (1, Okhotny Ryad street):
10 a.m. Last meeting of spring session
Agenda: Bill amending law on NGOs, bill on slander, anti-crisis amendments to 2012 budget
2 p.m. Meeting of United Russia faction
Subject: Results of State Duma spring session 2012
9.30 a.m. Picket
Subject: Protest against bill amending law on NGOs
Organizer: Yabloko party
Venue: State Duma (1, Okhotny Ryad street)
10 a.m. Public hearings
Subject: Development of modern water sanitation systems
Venue: Public Chamber (7/1, Miusskaya square)
Phone: 8495-319-9233
10 a.m. Roundtable
Subject: Prospects of Russia’s water strategy
Participants: Natural Resources Minister S. Donskoi, Federation Council deputy speaker S. Orlova, MPs
Venue: Alexander House (1, Bolshaya yakimanka street)
Phone: 8495-637-3535
11 a.m. Press conference
Subject: Three years after Natalia Estemirova was killed. Is there progress in investigation?
Speakers: Memorial human rights center chairman A. Cherkasov, Committee Against Torture head I. Kalyapin, deputy head of HRW office in Moscow T. Lokshina and Novaya Gazeta correspondent Ye. Milashina.
Venue: Interfax (2, Pervaya Tverskaya-Yamskaya street)
Phone: 8499-250-8832
Events due at RIA Novosti (4, Zubovsky boulevard, 8495-645-6472, 8968-766-1452):
Noon Roundtable
Subject: 20 anniversary of peacekeeping mission in South Ossetia
Participants: Scientists, experts
4 p.m. Press conference
Subject: Activity of Rosvodresursy agency to mitigate consequences of Krymsk flood
Speakers: Rosvodresursy chief M. Seliverstova
Noon Press conference
Subject: Settlement in Syria
Speaker: Foreign Minister S. Lavrov
Venue: Foreign Ministry (30/2, Smolenskaya-Sennaya square)
Fax: 8499-244-1766
E-mail: pc.mid@yandex.ru
Vents 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: Bad apartments in Moscow. How to protect your share from trolls?
Speakers: Human rights activists
1 p.m. Press conference
Subject: Pensioner Shumilkina evicted from her apartment
Speakers: Pensioner N. Shumilkina, Moscow Helsinki Group member S. Sorokin
Meeting of CB board of director
Subject: CB interests rates
July 13-15: Moscow City Racing
In Russia and worldwide:
Novogorsk sport base (Moscow region),
Press conference
Subject: Russian national volleyball team preparing for London Olympics
Participants: Russian Volleyball Federation president S. Shevchenko, head coach V. Alekno
Bus with journalists leave from Rechnoi Vokzal metro station at 10.30 a.m.
Phone: 8495-725-4576, 8915-350-3894
E-mail: smirnova@roc.ru
Rostov-on-Don,
Press conference at Interfax
Subject: International experience for Southern Russia
Opening ceremony
Subject: Polish visa center
Volgograd,
Press conference at Interfax
Subject: Adoption of energy efficiency long-term target program in Volgograd region
Far East Federal District,
Offsite session of Federation Council defense committee
South Ossetia,
Festive events
Subject: 20th anniversary of deploying Russian peacekeepers in Georgian-South Ossetina conflict zone
Kyiv (Ukraine),
Pechersky District Court to hear separate episode in case into poisoning of ex-Ukrainian President V. Yushchenko
Vienna (Austria),
Transdniestrian settlement talks in 5+2 format
U.S.,
Visit by Chief of General Staff N. Makarov
Africa,
Visit by presidential envoy for cooperation with Africa M. Margelov
