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Events due in Moscow, Russia, CIS and Baltic countries on June 13 – 17, 2012

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*** 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

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