INTERFAX-ANNOUNCEMENTS-FRIDAY
Bulletin is released Sunday to Friday. Issue No. 131
In Moscow:
Events due at Federation Council (26, Bolshaya Dmitrovka street, phone: 8495-692-1877, 8495-692-5604, 8495-692-7525, fax: 8495-692-4305):
10 a.m. Plenary session
Agenda: Ratification of agreement on joint board of Customs Unions customs services, changes to Tax Code, changes to Pension Fund budget and others
11 a.m. Governmental hour
Speaker: Justice Minister Yu. Konovalov
10 a.m. Roundtable
Subject: Priorities of national business initiative to support and promote exports
Venue: Chamber of Commerce and Industry (6, Ilyinka street)
Phone: 8495-620-0186, 8495-620-0365, 8495-620-0081, 8495-620-0290
E-mail: lit@tpprf.ru
11 a.m. Negotiations
Participants: Foreign Minister S. Lavrov, Iraqi Foreign Minister H. Zebari
Venue: Foreign ministry’s mansion (17, Spiridonovka street)
Noon Briefing
Journalists enter at 10 a.m.
11 a.m. Meeting
Subject: Results of Single State Exam 2012 ‘hotline’
Venue: Public Chamber (7/1, Miusskaya square)
Phone: 8495-221-8361, 8909-625-6484
Events due at RIA Novosti (4, Zubovsky boulevard):
11 a.m. Press conference
Subject: Uniting school nutrition companies by districts
Speaker: Moscow City officials
Noon Roundtable
Subject: Russia on way to WTO. Final stage
Participants: Experts
Events due at Komsomolskaya Pravda publishing house (1/23, Stary Petrovsko-Razumovsky passage, phone: 8495-786-6788, 8495-665-7531, 8495-637-6482):
Noon Press conference
Subject: National business initiative. Is it possible to improve investment climate in Russia?
Speakers: Strategic Initiatives Agency general director A. Nikitin
2 p.m. Press conference
Subject: Instability of European economy and falling ruble exchange rate. Will there be crisis?
Speaker: Association of Russian Banks president G. Tosunyan
Noon Opening ceremony
Subject: Wakeboarding park
Venue: VVTs
Phone: 8495-748-3420
Journalists gather at 11.20 a.m.
1 p.m. Press conference
Subject: Development of scientific and technical potential of pupils and students in Russia
Speakers: Deputy Prime Minister O. Golodets, Education and Science Minister D. Livanov, Communication Minister N. Nikiforov and others
Venue: Moscow Palace of Youth Arts (17, Kosygina Street)
Phone: 8499-137-6831, 8915-424-4074
*** Journalists may obtain accreditation to a planned summit in Vladivostok, Russia, on September 2-9 of Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation, The APEC-2012 Leaders’ Week, by filling an online application on the website of Russia’s chairmanship of the event, www.apec2012.ru, the Russian presidential press service said.
Accreditation applications will be accepted until July 4.
In Russia and worldwide:
St. Petersburg,
Meeting
Participants: Prime Minister D. Medvedev, Belarusians Prime Minister M. Myasnikovich, Kazakh Prime Minister K. Masimov
