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Events due in Moscow, Russia, CIS and Baltic countries on Friday, June 22, 2012

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In Moscow:

Flower laying ceremony

Subject: Day of Commemoration and Sorrow

Participant: President V. Putin

Meeting of Russian Security Council

Participant: President V. Putin

Events due at Federation Council (26, Bolshaya Dmitrovka street, phone: 8495-692-1877, 8495-4145, 8495-692-7525, e-mail: 8495-692-4305):

10 a.m. Parliamentary hearings

Subject: Involvement of civil society in implementing state policy on countering corruption

1 p.m. Meeting

Participants: Federation Council deputy speaker A. Torshin, delegation of young U.S. politicians

10 a.m. Plenary session

Agenda: Second reading of bill on single voting day

Venue: State Duma (1, Okhonty Ryad street)

Events due at Poklonnaya Gora:

Midnight Action

Subject: Candle of Memory

Phone: 8916-370-2270, 8916-444-2769

E-mail: raspopovadp@mos-gaz.ru, ugarovans@mos-gaz.ru

4 a.m. Action

Subject: Commemorating victims of Great Patriotic War

Organizer: Right Cause party

Phone: 8926-335-4161, 8925-080-0482

10 a.m. Meeting

Participants: Veterans, officials

Phone: 8495-623-2004, 8903-681-2751, 8906-770-0458

4 a.m. Opening ceremony

Subject: Year of Russian History

Participant: CEC chairman V. Churov

Venue: Central Election Commission (9, Bolshoi Cherkassky side street)

Phone: 8495-625-8692, 8495-606-1325, 8926-779-0978

11 a.m. Press conference

Subject: Drug addiction in Russia. Is there a reason to be optimistic?

Speakers: Russian chief addiction doctor Ye. Bryun and others

Venue: AiF press center (42, Myasnitskaya street)

Phone: 8495-625-2148, 8495-623-9432

Events due at RIA Novosti (4, Zubovsky boulevard, phone: 8495-645-6472):

11 a.m. Press conference/presentation

Subject: Ukrainian nationalist organizations during WW II

Speakers: Rosarkhiv chief A. Artizov, historians

Noon Moscow – Jerusalem video link-up

Subject: Russia and Israel. Current agenda

Participants: MPs, experts

Noon Action

Subject: Commemoration of Great Patriotic War militia

Organizer: Rodina – Congress of Russian Communities, United People’s Front volunteer movement to support army

Venue: Moscow’s Militia monument (Prospekt Marshala Zhukova avenue)

Phone: 8905-575-7108

Events due at Public Chamber (7/1, Miusskaya square, phone: 8495-221-8361):

Noon Roundtable

Subject: Electronic tourist voucher as a tool of technological progress of tourist industry

Participants: MPs, Public Chamber members

Phone: 8909-625-6484

2 p.m. Session of Public Chamber Council

Subject: Results of monitoring 2012 single state exam, preparations of report on cviliv society in Russia for 2012

12.30 p.m. Wreath laying ceremony

Subject: Start of Great Patriotic War

Venue: Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, Marshal Georgy Zhukov monument

Venue: Alexandrovsky Garden

Phone: 8495-633-6057

1 p.m. Press conference

Subject: Future of Russian presidential human rights council

Speakers: Presidential human rights council chairman M. Fedotov, Moscow Helsinki Group head L. Alexeyeva, Civil Assistance committee head S. Gannushkina

Venue: Interfax (2, Pervaya Tverskaya-Yamskaya street)

Phone: 8499-250-8832

1 p.m. Picket

Subject: Protest against airing ‘Serving Soviet Union’ film by NTV channel

Organizer: Trade Union of Russian Citizens, Essence of Time movements

Venue: Ostankino TV center (12, Akademika Korolyova street)

Phone: 8931-271-9372

5 p.m. Action

Subejct: ‘Belorussky Railway Station, Moscow, June 22, 1941′

Participants: World War II veterans, officials

Venue: Belorussky railway station

Phone/fax: 8495-633-6034, 8926-203-2951, 8926-769-3770

E-mail: mokrova16@gmail.com, mokrova@kos.mos.ru

5 p.m. Accreditation ends for briefing

Subejct: Results of first summer shift of 2012 health campaign

Time: 9 a.m. on June 26

Speaker: Rospotrebnadzor chief G. Onishchenko

Venue: Rospotrebnadzor (18/7, vadkovsky side street)

Phone: 8499-973-2748

Accreditation ends for business forum

Subject: State program of developing sports. Dialog between business and authorities

Date: June 29

Participants: Senators, MPs

Venue: Aerostar Hotel Moscow (37/9, Leningradsky avenue)

Phone: 8916-202-4625, 8495-989-4738

E-mail: sportforum@bk.ru

*** 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 online form only

In Russia and worldwide:

Russia, Belarus, Ukraine,

Commemoration of start of Great Patriotic War

Star City (Moscow region),

11 a.m. Press conference

Speakers: Another ISS crew

St. Petersburg,

SPIEF 2012

Meeting

Participants: President V. Putin, Finnish President S. Niinisto

Leningrad region,

Ladoga 2012 international educational youth forum

Volgograd,

Visit by Russia 2018 organizing committee and FIFA officials

Rostov-on-Don,

Press conference at Interfax

Subject: Efficiency of measures to counter poaching in Rostov region

Novorossiisk,

Finish of Road of Vicotry youth motor rally

Yekaterinburg,

Press conferences at Interfax

Subject: Programs of development energy sector and reform public utility sector in Sverlovsk region

Subject: New interactive possibilities of regional TV

Novosibirsk,

Press conference at Interfax

Subject: Summer health campaign

Kyiv (Ukraine),

Pechersky District Court to question witnesses in case against ex-Ukrainian Interior Minister Yury Lutsenko accused of illegal surveillance

Rio de Janeiro (Brazil),

Rio+20 conference on sustainable development

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