INTERFAX-ANNOUNCEMENTS-FRIDAY
Bulletin is released Sunday to Friday. Issue No. 114
In Moscow:
Events due at State Duma (1, Okhotny Ryad street):
Plenary session
Agenda: Third reading of bill on federal budget for 2012 and planned period of 2013 – 2014, ratification of Russian-U.S. adoptions agreement, ratification of agreement on CSTO Collective Security Forces, ratification of protocol on permanent office of European Space Agency in Russia
Governmental hour
Speaker: FAS chief I. Artemyev
Noon Meeting
Participants: United Russia faction leader A. Vorobyov, U.S. Ambassador to Russia M. Mcfaul
Events due at Public Chamber (7/1, Miusskaya square, phone: 8495-221-8361):
9.30 a.m. Forum
Subject: Sustainable development
Participant: Scientists, UN officials
10 a.m. First meeting of Russian public council for international cooperation and public diplomacy
Participants: Foreign Minister S. Lavrov and others
9.30 a.m. Conference
Subject: Islamic doctrine against radicalism
Participants: Muftis from 20 Muslim countries
Venue: Ritz Carlton (3, Tverskaya street)
Phone: 8495-628-0842
E-mail: info@wasatiya.ru
10 a.m. Business forum
Title: National business initiative. KPI for government
Participants: Deputy Prime Minster A. Dvorkovich, Delovaya Rossiaya chairman B. Titov, Delovaya Rossiya president B. Galushka, Economic Development Minister A. belousova, Regional Development Minister O. Govorun, Industry and Trade Minister D. Maturov
Venue: World Trade Center (12, Krasnopresnenskaya embankment)
Phone: 8903-774-9777
E-mail: pr@deloros.ru
10.30 a.m. Meeting of Russian-Syrian permanent commission for trade, economic, scientific and cultural cooperation
Participants: Deputy Prime Minister A. Khloponin, Syrian Finance Minister M. al-Julaylati
Venue: Government reception house (16, Vozdvizhenka street)
Phone: 8985-763-1864
Events due at RIA Novosti (4, Zubovsky boulevard, 8495-637-5019, 8495-645-6472):
Noon Moscow – Kyiv video link-up
Subject: Russia and Ukraine: current status quo
Participants: Experts
2 p.m. Press conference
Subject: Development of nuclear energy industry in Russia after Fukushima tragedy
Speaker: Rosenergoatom deputy general director V. Asmolov
Events due at Independent Press Center (17/9, Prechistenka street, phone: 8495-232-2891, 8495-637-3126, e-mail: yakovlevapress@yandex.ru, yakovleva@infolegal.ru):
11.30 a.m. Press conference
Subject: Who is disrupting peace process in Dagestan?
Speakers: Human rights activists S. Gannushkina, O. Orlov and others
1 p.m. Press conference
Subject: Corrupted zoo. Situation at Moscow Zoo
Speakers: Russian Education Fund president S. Komkov and others
1.30 p.m. Debates
Subject: Party-building and intra-party democracy ahead of United Russia congress
Venue: Manezh exhibition hall (1, Manezhnaya square)
Phone: 8495-788-4493
Journalists enter from 11.30 a.m. to 1 p.m.
1.30 p.m. Press conference
Subject: ‘Youth business in Russia’ project
Speakers: Moscow science and industrial policy department chief A. Komissarov, Russian Microfinancing Center director M. Mamut
Venue: 13/2, Tverskaya street
Phone: 8985-249-7054
3 p.m. Opening ceremony
Subject: ‘Death of Emperor Nicholas’ II family. A century-long probe’ documentary exhibition
Venue: Federal Archives (17, Bolshaya Pirogovskaya street)
Phone: 8499-245-1925, 8495-580-8825
E-mail: vzal_fa@mail.ru
5 p.m. Children festival
Title: Visiting patriarch
Participant: Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and all-Russia
Venue: Patriarch residence (Peredelkino)
Phone: 8499-578-0349
E-mail: accredit@patriarchia.ru
6.30 p.m. Presentation
Subject: ‘For the Good of the World’ national Internet award
Venue: Forum Hall (11/10 Letnikovskaya St)
Phone: 8916-673-4014
E-mail: olga-shmyrova2008@yandex.ru
Education and Science Ministry to sum up results of contest granting accredited higher-education institutions right to offer free-tuition places
Accreditation ends to press conference
Speaker: Indonesian Agriculture Minister A. Apriyantono
Time: 9:30 a.m. on May 28
Venue: Lotte hotel (8, Novinsky boulevard)
Phone: 8495-951-9549, 8916-856-4413
E-mail: enjaychik@gmail.com, blesnova_lisa@mail.ru
Noon Accreditation ends to roundtable
Subject: Byzantine legacy in Europe: Russia and Italy
Time: 6 p.m. on May 28
Participants: Italian Ambassador to Russia A. Landi and others
Venue: Kazansky Railway station (2, Komsomolskaya square)
Phone: 8495-775-6592 (ext.: 1044)
3 p.m. Accreditation ends to conference
Subject: Internal audit and risk management in Russia
Time: 1 p.m. on May 28
Participants: Audit Chamber chairman S. Stepashin and others
Venue: Russian Academy of Sciences (14, Leninsky avenue)
Phone: 8903-151-9677, 8985-269-7702, 8905-530-7696
4 p.m. Accreditation ends to liturgy
Time: 9.30 a.m. on May 27
Participant: Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and all-Russia
Venue: Cathedral of Renewal of Church in name of Christ’s Resurrection (15/2, Bryusov side street)
Phone: 8499-578-0349
E-mail: accredit@patriarchia.ru
8 p.m. Accreditation ends to presentation
Subject: ‘Nowhere to hurry’ film anthology
Time: 7 p.m. on May 27
Participant: Traffic policemen and others
Venue: Gorky park
Phone: 8495-214-0731, 8916-904-7619
E-mail: pr@gibdd.ru
In Russia and worldwide:
Mozhaisk (Moscow region),
Press visit to penal colony for minors
Journalists gather at 8 a.m. on May 25
Venue: 19, Rustaveli street
Phone: 8499-799-3272, 8495-982-1992
Pyatigorsk,
Conference
Subject: Russian language as condition for successful social adaptation of migrants
Organizer: Federal Migration Service
Perm,
Offsite meeting
Subject: Construction of Skolkovo innovation center in Moscow region
Organizer: Skolkovo foundation technical board
Ulyanovsk,
Leninsky District court to hear appeal from local student A.Pozdnyakova, who accuses Left Front leader Udaltsov of beating her
Tyumen,
Press conference at Interfax/Tyumen Line news agency joint press center
Subject: Innovations in organizing library services in Tyumen region
Minsk (Belarus),
Session of experts drafting resolutions to increase CIS Coordination Council of Prosecutors General’s secretariat staff
Session of experts drafting protocol of changes and amendments to agreement to create CIS council for cooperation on periodicals, book publishing and distribution and printing services, dated June 4, 1999
Ashgabat (Turkmenistan),
Session of CIS electric power council
Tallinn (Estonia),
Start of spring session of NATO Parliamentary Assembly
