INTERFAX-ANNOUNCEMENTS-WEEK
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The bulletin comes out weekly. This is issue No. 26-2
MONDAY, July 2, 2012
In Moscow:
5 p.m. Session of presidential human rights council
12.30 p.m. Meeting
Participants: Federation Council deputy speaker I. Umakhanov, young German politicians
Venue: Federation Council (26, Bolshaya Dmitrovka street)
Phone: 8495-692-1877, 8495-692-4145
Fax: 8495-692-4305
Events due at State Duma (1, Okhotny Ryad street):
Noon. An expanded session of the Duma Committee for Economic Policy, Innovative Development and Enterprise
Attendees: A. Belousov, Russian Economic Development Minister.
Agenda: the draft federal bill, “On the ratification of the Protocol on Russia’s annexation to the Marrakech Agreement establishing the World Trade Organization of April 15, 1994″
1 p.m. Session of State Duma Council
2 p.m. Parliamentary hearings
Subject: Location of parliamentary center
Speaker: State Duma chairman S. Naryshkin
Phone: 8495-692-3575, 8495-692-9146
E-mail: suvorova@duma.gov.ru
3 p.m. Parliamentary hearings
Subject: Modernization of Russian Civil Code
Phone: 8495-692-2003, 8495-692-6627
3:30 p.m. A briefing by Just Russia faction leader S. Mironov for parliamentary journalists
Subject: “Pressing issues of the week”
Phone: 8-985-766-53-48.
10.30 a.m. A rally during which representatives from the advertising community will express their attitude to the situation on the Moscow outdoor advertising market
Venue: 26/1 Sofiiskaya Embankment
Participants: the Russian president’s business ombudsman, heads and members of Duma committees and commissions; and others
Phone: (495) 729-29-16; 8-903-729-29-16.
11 a.m. Public hearings
Subject: Private-state partnership on in non-governmental security speakers
Participants: Senators, officials, representatives of NGOs
Venue: Public Chamber (7/1, Miusskaya square)
Phone: 8495-221-8361, 8903-198-3726
Noon. Press conference
Subject: organizing first and routine medical aid in the newly annexed areas of Moscow
Speakers: G. Golukhov, head of the Moscow Health Care Department; N. Plavunov, first deputy head of the Department; A. Khripun, deputy head of the Department; and others
Venue: Moscow Health Care Department (43 Oruzheiny Pereulok)
Phone: 8 (499) 251-00-59; fax: 8 (499) 251-52-74; e-mail: pressa-dz@mosgorzdrav.ru; predz@mail.ru.
Events due at RIA Novosti (4, Zubovsky boulevard, phone: 8495-645-6472):
1 p.m. Press conference
Subject: Situation in Egypt during presidential election
Speaker: Egyptian Ambassador to Russia A. el-Hadidi
1 p.m. Press conference
Subject: Strategic and tactical landmarks of budgetary policy
Speaker: Federation Council committee budget deputy head D. Ananyev and others
1 p.m. Video link between Moscow and Brussels
Subject: “The results of the EU summit in Brussels. What lies in store for the Eurozone?”. Participants in Moscow: M. Bratersky, deputy head of the Department of World Politics at the Faculty of World Economy and World Politics at the Higher School of Economics (HSE), leading scientist at the Center for Complex European and International Research; D. Miroshnichenko, the HSE Development Center Institute. In Brussels: N. Veron, senior scientist at the Bruegel Center for Global Studies
2 p.m. Press conference
Subject: the official presentation of the Moscow Spartak FC’s newcomer R.B. Monteiro.
Speakers: V. Karpin, Spartak FC General Director; R. Askhabazdze, Spartak FC Deputy General Director; R.B. Monteiro, football player.
4 p.m. An event on the occasion of the ten-year anniversary since the death of 72 people in an airplane collision over Germany
Venue: the MSU Palace of Culture (1 Leninskiye Gory)
Phone: 692-91-42.
9:30 p.m. Debates among the teams of deputies from Moscow’s municipal assemblies
Subject: the extension of powers for local governments and the allocation of additional 4 billion rubles for the capital’s districts.
Venue: Moska Cafe (5 Pushkin Square)
Phone: 8-909-168-94-49; e-mail: polina_orehova@mail.ru.
July 2-4: Jimmy Cobb’s Quintet to play its first concerts in Russia at I. Butman’s club in Chistiye Prudy (16 Ulansky Pereulok).
10 a.m. Governor of the Moscow region S. Shoigu to hold a video conference with the heads of municipalities and city districts
Subject: compliance by the heads of Moscow region municipalities with the recommendations of the June 4, 2012 meeting; forestry issues
Venue: the Management and Decision-Making Center of the Moscow Region Government House (Krasnogorsk, Moscow region)
Phone: 8 (498) 602-12-29; 8-916-578-63-00; 8-916-380-34-16.
3 p.m. Accreditation ends for press conference
Subject: Day of Family, Love and Faith due on July 8
Time: 11 a.m. on July 3
Speakers: Social and Cultural Initiatives fund deputy president T. Shumova
Venue: RIA Novosti (4, Zubovsky boulevard)
Phone: 8495-645-6472, 8495-380-2594
E-mail: mediasoyuz@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 Russia and worldwide:
Yekaterinburg,
Interfax press conference
Subject: “Sverdlovsk region’s traffic police chief on new fines, rise in road accidents and half-year results”
Speaker: Y. Dyomin, Sverdlovsk region’s chief traffic police officer
Interfax press conference
Subject: Annual Vienna festival of musical films reach new level
Kyiv (Ukraine),
The International Football Association Board to hold a session to report on the results of testing an electronic gate monitoring system;
Press conference at Interfax
Subject: Who will get 6 million votes of investors and 17% of ‘undecided’ at 2012 parliamentary election?
July 2-3: a meeting of the Syrian opposition under the aegis of the Arab League to work out a roadmap for opponents of the Syrian regime.
Estonia,
Prime Minister A. Ansip to meet with a delegation of U.S. congressmen
Latvia,
A formal visit by Turkish President A Gul.
Brazil,
July 2-6: Visit by CEC chairman V. Churov
TUESDAY, July 3, 2012
In Moscow:
Visit by Vietnamese Foreign Minister Pham Binh Minh
10 a.m. Business forum
Title: A Strong Russia
Participants: Deputy Prime Minister D. Rogozin, Skolkovo fund chairman V. Vekselberg and others
Venue: Tsaritsino park (1, Dolskaya street)
Phone: 8495-510-6546, 8495-510-6547
11 a.m. Press conference
Subject: Awarding of Consumer Rights and Quality Services prize
Venue: Chamber of Commerce and Industry congress hall (5/10, Chistoprudny boulevard)
Phone: 8800-200-2919
E-mail: gmironova@socprof.ru
Events due at RIA Novosti (4, Zubovsky boulevard, phone: 8495-645-6472):
11 a.m. Press conference
Subject: Day of Family, Love and Faith due on July 8
Speakers: Social and Cultural Initiatives fund deputy president T. Shumova
Phone: 8495-380-2594
E-mail: mediasoyuz@bk.ru
11 a.m. Roundtable
Subject: Bright future for children. Quality of additional education
Speaker: Moscow culture department chief S. Kapkov, Moscow children rights commissioner Ye. Bunimovich
Phone: 8906-072-0442, 8905-797-5351, 8903-149-0906
11 a.m. Press conference
Subject: Socio-political situation in Egypt
Speaker: MK press center (7, Ulitsa 1905 Goda)
Phone: 8495-781-4712, 8985-444-0074
E-mail: sos@mk.ru
11 a.m. Roundtable
Subject: “Ruble in 2011: results and prospects”
Attendees: S. Shvetsov, Deputy Chairman of the Bank of Russia; Y. Trofimova, First Vice President at Gazprombank; R. Caspar, World Bank’s chief economist on Russia; and others
Venue: ITAR-TASS (2 Tverskoi Blvd)
Phone: 8 (495) 692-15-22; 629-60-34.
Noon Press conference
Subject: Development of payment space in Russia
Speakers: MasterCard Russia general director I. Ryabyi, Visa Russia general director S. Parker, Deputy Finance Minister A. Savatyugin and others
Venue: Interfax (2, Pervaya Tverskaya-Yamskaya street)
Phone: 8499-250-8832
Noon. A general meeting of members of the nonprofit partnership, “Russian Football Premier League”
Venue: House of Football in Taganka (7 Narodnaya Street)
Agenda: to agree upon the regulations and schedule for the SOGAZ-Russian Championship for the 2012-2013 season, the exercise of commercial rights during the 2012-2013 season.
2:15 p.m. a press conference
3 p.m. A session of new members of the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs’ Defense Industry Commission chaired by A. Tkachuk, RUIE board member and Chairman of the Board of Directors at the open joint-stock company Russkiye Mineralniye Resursy (Russian Mineral Resources). The event will focus on the development of the Russian defense industry. Attendees: A. Shokhin, RUIE President; V. Pospelov, member of the Russian government’s defense industry commission; A. Bondarchuk, Deputy Chairman of the Russian Federal Council Committee for Defense and Security; and others
Phone: 8 (495) 663-04-04; e-mail: pr@rspp.ru.
8 p.m. A concert by British band Queen, U.S. singer A. Lambert and Russian singer Zemfira
Venue: Olympiisky Sports Complex (16 Olympiisky Avenue, building 2)
Constitutional Court to hear State Duma members’ request to check whether Russia’s WTO accession protocol is constitutional
Tverskoi Court to hear a libel lawsuit filed by Chechen leader’s lawyer A. Krasnenkov against the Memorial center.
11 a.m. Press conference
Speaker: O. Kononenko, Russian cosmonaut, the ISS Expedition 31 Commander
Venue: Cosmonaut Training Center, Zvyozdny Gorodok (Star City), Moscow region.
*** 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:
Krasnodar,
Press conference
Subject: prospects for development of economic, scientific and cultural ties between Belarus and Krasnodar territory
Tyumen,
Press conference at Interfax
Subject: Results of Tyumen police in H1 of 2012
Kyiv (Ukraine),
Pechersky District Court to continue hearing case against ex-head of outdoor surveillance department O. Pukach charged with murdering journalist G. Gongadze
In Mykolyiv: a court hearing in the case over the rape and murder of O. Makar.
Minsk. Belarus,
A military parade by the Minsk garrison and an Olympic Carnival on the occasion of the Independence Day.
Istanbul (Turkey),
Expert meeting of P5+1
WEDNESDAY, July 4, 2012
In Moscow:
9 a.m. Forum
Participants: bankers
Venue: Swissotel Krasnye Holmy (52/6, Kosmodamianskaya embankment)
Phone: 8495-225-3444
1 p.m. Press conference
Subject: When will Russia face new Western new rallies and provocations?
Speaker: Geopolitical Problems Academy deputy presidents V. Volozhanin, V. Petrov
Venue: AiF (42, Myasnitskaya street)
Phone: 8495-768-0256
E-mail: enovikova@list.ru
Tverskoi Court to hear a lawsuit filed by U.S. woman T. Hansen, who refused from her adopted Russian child, against Russian children’s ombudsman P. Astakhov, seeking a retraction of his earlier statements.
July 4-5: a working visit by Prof. P. Dutkevich of the School of Public Policy and Administration at Carlton University (Ottawa, Canada) to the Moscow City University of Administration of the Moscow Government (28 Sretenka St). Phone: 957-75-60.
*** 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:
Kyiv (Ukraine),
Press conference
Speaker: Ukrainian President V. Yanukovych
Press conference at Interfax
Subject: Euro 2012 is over. Should Ukraine fear hryvnia devaluation?
THURSDAY, July 5, 2012
In Moscow:
Meeting of Russian-Belarusian-Kazakh working group shaping future Eurasian Economic Space parliament
9 a.m. Forum
Subject: Modernizing infrastructure of Russian cities
Venue: Moscow City government (36/9, Novy Arbat street)
4 p.m. Roundtable
Subject: Ombudsman: prospects and problems of protecting rights of businessmen
Venue: Delovaya Rossiya (10/2, Yauzskaya street)
Phone: 8495-698-0862 (ext.: 133), 8916-349-2344
E-mail: or@mgodeloros.ru
A premiere of B. Zeitlin’s film “Beasts of the Southern Wild”
In Russia and worldwide:
Kaliningrad,
A session of the CIS defense ministers’ council.
Minsk, Belarus,
Events at the CIS Executive Committee:
Consultations between foreign ministries on the CIS cooperation with international financial institutions;
July 5-6: an anniversary plenum of the CIS Economic Court and an international conference on “the 20th anniversary of the CIS Economic Court”
Estonia,
A two-day meeting of the delegations from the Estonian parliament’s commission for foreign affairs and the Russian State Duma committee for foreign affairs. The meeting will start in Puhajarve on July 5 and will continue in Russia’s Pskov on July 6. Agenda: the Estonian-Russian cooperation in border areas and bilateral parliamentary relations.
Monaco,
July 5-9: an annual OSCE PA session
Agenda: a draft resolution demanding that the 2014 ice hockey championship venue be changed unless Belarus releases all political prisoners; a draft resolution on Iran.
FRIDAY, July 6, 2012
In Moscow:
Last day of State Duma spring session
Agenda: Ratification of Russian-French agreement on adoptions cooperation, consideration of prosecutor’s general move to strip Communist MP V. Bessonov of immunity
2 p.m. The opening of the international festival of Buddhist culture
Venue: Moscow Garden in Mnevniki (68 Nizhniye Mnevniki)
6:30 p.m. a formal part of the event will take place at the Central House of the Men of Letters (53 Bolshaya Nikitskaya St)
Phone: 8-903-736-48-39; e-mail: gesarnorbu@gmail.com.
Founding congress of Union of Labor party
In Russia and worldwide:
Vologda,
July 6-10: Voices, a young European film festival.
Bolshoye Zavidovo, Konakovo district, Tver region,
July 6-8: Nashestviye-2012 music festival.
Bryansk,
The regional court to hear a cassation complaint against the verdict to I. Dobrzhanskaya sentenced to a four-year prison term in the high-profile case over a car accident which killed a three-year-old girl.
St. Petersburg,
Last day of 36th session of UNESCO World Heritage Center
SATURDAY, July 7, 2012
In Moscow:
Congress of Civil Platform party
Participant: Tycoon M. Prokhorov
12:30 p.m. An event organized by Delovaya Rossiya
Subject: “Ombudsman: prospects and problems in protecting the rights of entrepreneurs and private owners”
Venue: Engineer Innovation Center (Kratovo village, Moscow region)
Phone: 8 (495) 698-08-62 (ext. 136, 132, 133, 135); 8-915-367-79-25; 8-916-349-23-44; e-mail: org2@ingener.ru; pr@mgodeloros.ru.
In Russia and worldwide:
Russia,
The Day of the Russian Navy’s Victory over Turkey in the Battle of Chesma.
Veliky Novgorod,
The closing day of the primaries in the regional gubernatorial election.
SUNDAY, July 8, 2012
In Moscow:
2 p.m. Seven Flowers of Happiness, an event on the occasion of the Day of Family, Love and Faithfulness
Venue: the Church of Michael the Archangel in Troparyovo ( 90 Prospekt Vernadskogo)
Phone: 8 (499) 149-72-41; 8-985-776-51-83.
Festivities are due to take place in Moscow on the occasion of the Day of Family, Love and Faithfulness, with a central venue at the Tsaritsyno museum and natural reserve (1 Dolskaya St), where a large family award ceremony will begin at 2 p.m. Moscow Mayor S. Sobyanin is expected to attend.
10:50 p.m. Firework at the same venue, followed by church bell ringing.
Phone: 680-66-51, 8-916-644-66-83.
In Russia and worldwide:
Day of Family, Love and Faithfulness
Tokyo, Japan,
An international meeting on Afghanistan.
