INTERFAX-ANNOUNCEMENTS-WEEK
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The bulletin comes out weekly. This is issue No. 23
*** Russia celebrates Day of Russia on June 12 and due to this fact June 10-12 (Sunday-Tuesday) will be days-off.
June 9 (Saturday) will be a working day.
The next daily and weekly announcements will be published on Saturday, June 12
WEDNESDAY, June 13, 2012
In Moscow:
3 p.m. Ceremony
Subject: Transfer of Asian Pacific parliamentary flag to Russia
Participant: Federation Council speaker V. Matviyenko
Venue: Federation Council (26, Bolshaya Dmitrovka street)
Phone: 8495-692-1877, 8495-692-5604, 8495-692-7525
Fax: 8495-692-4305
E-mail: 6921788@mail.ru
10 a.m. Press conference
Speakers: Nobel prize winner doctor B. Marshall, Healthcare Minister V. Skvortsova
Venue: Sechenov Medical University (8, Trubetskaya street)
Phone: 8495-708-3668, 8495-609-1400 (ext.: 2103, 1009), 8965-165-0916, 8965-165-5529
E-mail: pr@mma.ru
11 a.m. Public hearings
Subject: Peculiarities of applying anti-extremist laws to holy texts of religious organizations
Participants: Public Chamber members
Venue: Public Chamber (7/1, Miusskaya square)
Phone: 8495-221-8361, 8916-106-6602
11 a.m. Press conference
Subject: Moscow school leavers 2012
Speakers: Deputy Moscow mayor L. Pechatnikov
Venue: Itar-Tass (4, Tverskoi boulevard)
Phone: 8495-629-6403, 8495-692-1522, 8495-629-6034
E-mail: press@itar-tass.com
3 p.m. Press conference
Subject: Results of annual consultations of IMF experts with Russian authorities
Speakers: IMF European Department Advisor A. Spilimbergo, IMF Senior Resident Representative in Russia O. Per Brekk, IMF European Department official D. Hofman, IMF Executive Director for Russia A. Mozhin, and IMF Senior External Relations Officer O. Stankova.
Venue: Interfax (2, Pervaya Tverskaya-Yamskaya street)
Phone: 8499-250-8832
3 p.m. Roundtable
Subject: Political attempts to rehabilitate fascists in Baltic states as justification of revising WW II results
Participants: World Without Fascism human rights movement B. Shpigel, World Without Nazism movement D. Linter and others
Venue: RIA Novosti (4, Zubovsky boulevard)
Phone: 8495-637-5019, 8495-645-6472
Noon Accreditation ends for meeting of State Duma’s cultural policy council
Time: 11 a.m. on June 14
Participants: State Duma speaker S. Naryshkin, State Duma deputies speaker A. Zhukov, L. Shvetsova, Culture Minster V. Medinsky
Venue: State Duma (1, Okhotny Ryad street)
Phone: 8495-692-2739
E-mail: vinograd@duma.gov.ru
3 p.m. Accreditation ends for roundtable
Subject: Social consequences of Russia’s accession to WTO
Time: Noon on June 14
Organizer: A Just Russia party
Participants: State Duma economic policy committee deputy head M. Yemelyanov, State Duma deputy speaker N. Levichev
Venue: State Duma (1, Okhotny Ryad street)
Phone: 8985-766-5348
5 p.m. Accreditation ends for meeting of Federation Council’s cultural policy council
Subject: Cultural map of Russian regions. Regional disproportion and solutions
Time: 11 a.m. on June 14
Participants: Federation Council speaker V. Matviyenko
Venue: Federation Council (26, Bolshaya Dmitrovka street)
Phone: 8495-692-1877, 8495-692-5604, 8495-692-7525
Fax: 8495-692-4305
*** 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:
Troitsk (Moscow region),
9 a.m. Meeting of CIS migration agencies chiefs
Subject: Russia’s FMS turns 20
Phone: 8985-776-2307
10 a.m. Meeting of CSTO coordination council for countering illegal migration
Participant: FMS chief K. Romodanovsky
Journalists gather at 7.30 a.m.
Venue: FMS (4, Boyarsky side street)
Rostov-on-Don,
Press conference at Interfax
Subject: Rostov region turns 75. Main events of the year
St. Petersburg,
Press conference at Interfax
Subject: ‘Associations’ project at Tsarskoye Selo museum
Kyiv (Ukraine),
Pechersky District Court to hear case against ex-Ukrainian Interior Minister Yu. Lutsenko as part of investigating poisoning of ex-Ukrainian President V. Yushchenko
Baku (Azerbaijan),
June 13-14: Visit by OSCE Chairman-in-Office E. Gilmor
THURSDAY, June 14, 2012
In Moscow:
Vents due at Federation Council (26, Bolshaya Dmitrovka street, phone: 8495-692-1877, 8495-692-5604, 8495-692-7525, fax: 8495-692-4305):
11 a.m. Meeting of Federation Council’s cultural policy council
Subject: Cultural map of Russian regions. Regional disproportion and solutions
Participants: Federation Council speaker V. Matviyenko
Venue: Federation Council (26, Bolshaya Dmitrovka street)
Noon Expanded meeting of State Duma defense and security committee
Subject: Application of laws of monetary allowances for military officers, law enforcers
Events due at State Duma (1, Okhotny Ryad street):
11 a.m. Meeting of State Duma’s cultural policy council
Participants: State Duma speaker S. Naryshkin, State Duma deputies speaker A. Zhukov, L. Shvetsova, Culture Minster V. Medinsky
Phone: 8495-692-2739
E-mail: vinograd@duma.gov.ru
Noon Roundtable
Subject: Social consequences of Russia’s accession to WTO
Organizer: A Just Russia party
Participants: State Duma economic policy committee deputy head M. Yemelyanov, State Duma deputy speaker N. Levichev
Phone: 8985-766-5348
11 a.m. Press conference
Subject: Moscow’s social policy. Reality and prospects
Speaker: Moscow deputy mayor L. Pechatnikov
Venue: Interfax (2, Pervaya Tverskaya-Yamskaya street)
Phone: 8499-250-8832
1 p.m. Roundtable
Subject: Internet media. Problems, solution and development prospects
Participants: Russia Today editor-in-chief M. Simonyan, Slon.ru editor-in-chief A. Goryanov and others
Venue: RIA Novosti (4, Zubovsky boulevard)
Phone: 8495-637-5019, 8495-645-6472
June 14-15: Conference
Subject: Project financing 2012. Russia and CIS
Venue: Ararat Park Hyatt (4, Neglinnaya street)
Noon Accreditation ends for talks
Participants: EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy C. Ashton, Iranian Supreme National Security Council Secretary S. Jalili, political directors of ‘sextet’ of mediators
Date: June 18-19
Venue: Moscow
Phone: 8499-244-1766
E-mail: mfamedia@rambler.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:
Tyumen,
Press conference at Interfax/Tyumen Line news agency joint press center
Subject: Modernization of professional education in Tyumen region
Khabarovsk,
Press conference at Interfax
Subject: Pilot project aimed t changing system of paying social insurance to working people in Khabarovsk territory starting on July 1, 2012
Tajikistan,
End of Peace Mission 2012 anti-terrorist drills
Bishkek (Kyrgyzstan),
June 14-15: Third plenary session of parliamentary assembly of Turk-speaking states
Kabul (Afghanistan),
Visit by Foreign Minister S. Lavrov
FRIDAY, June 15, 2012
In Moscow:
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
2 p.m. Roundtable
Subject: People’s complaints to Moscow government about violations of their rights
Participants: MPs, officials
Venue: Independent Press Center (17/9, Prechistenka street)
Phone: 8495-232-2891, 8495-637-3126
E-mail: yakovlevapress@yandex.ru, yakovleva@infolegal.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:
No announcement yet available
SATURDAY, June 16, 2012
In Moscow:
2 p.m. Congress of Republican Party
Subject: Renaming of party into Republican Party of People’s Freedom (RPR-PARNAS)
Venue: Izmailovo hotel (71, Izmailovskoye highway)
Phone: 8495-740-9517
E-mail: oshor@mail.ru
June 16-17: Congress of Yabloko party
Subject: Reelection of S. Mitrokhin as party leader
*** 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:
No announcement yet available
SUNDAY, June 17, 2012
In Moscow:
*** 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:
No announcement yet available