INTERFAX-ANNOUNCEMENTS-WEEK
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The bulletin comes out weekly. This is issue No. 24
MONDAY, June 18, 2012
In Moscow:
June 18-19: Negotiations
Subject: Iranian nuclear issue
Participants: Officials from P5+1, Iran
Events due at State Duma (1, Okhotny Ryad):
10 a.m. Parliamentary hearings
Subject: Problems and prospects of Russia’s fishing industry after WTO entry
Organizer: State Duma committee for natural resources
Phone: 8495-692-7726
10.30 a.m. Roundtable
Subject: Legal support to administering price formation on Russian oil market
Organizer: State Duma economic policy committee
Phone: 8495-692-8305
1 p.m. State Duma Council session
2 p.m. Briefing
Subject: Topical issues of the week
Speaker: A Just Russia party leader S. Mironov
Phone: 8985-766-5348
Noon. News conference
Subject: Concert of opera singer Jose Cura in the Kremlin
Speakers: Cura, Bolshoi Theater opera singer D. Aliyeva and Artistic Director of the State Kremlin Palace P. Shaboltai
Venue: ITAR-TASS headquarters, Tverskoi Boulevard 2
Tel.: 8495-629-6403, 8495-692-1522
2 p.m. Meeting
Participants: Macedonian governmental delegation led by Macedonian Prime Minister N. Gruevski, Russian businessmen
Venue: Chamber of Commerce and Industry (6, Ilyinka street)
Phone: 8495-620-0186, 8495-620-0081, 8495-620-0290
E-mail: lit@tpprf.ru
2 p.m. Conference
Subject: Ensuring Moscow’s food security
Organizers: Moscow trade and services department, Moscow Chamber of Commerce and Industry
Participant: Moscow trade and services department chief D. Krasnov
Venue: Moscow city Government (36/9, Novy Arbat street)
Phone: 8495-694-2507, 8910-416-2317
3 p.m. News conference
Subject: Russian program for the Moscow International Film Festival
Venue: Cinema House, Ul. Vasilyevskaya 13
Tel.: 8499-251-6314, 8903-206-3870
Email: mircult@mail.ru
Tverskoi District Court to hear N. Alexeyev appeal against Moscow authorities decision not to hold gay pride in Moscow on May 26-27
3 p.m. Deadline for seeking accreditation to a meeting at 12:30 p.m. on June 19 of the organizing committee for a Russian national forum of large families
The meeting participants include Sergei Mironov, leader of the A Just Russia party, Y. Mizulina, chairperson of the State Duma Committee on Family, Women and Children, and committee members O. Yepifanova and Y. Bychkova
Venue: State Duma, Ul. Okhotny Ryad 1
Tel.: 8985-766-5348
4 p.m. Public hearings
Subject: Equal chances of children to quality education
Participants: Higher School of Economics rector Ya. Kuzminov, Deputy Education Minister I. Remorenko and others
Venue: Public Chamber (7/1, Miusskaya square)
Phone: 8495-221-8361
4 p.m. Accreditation ends for meeting of Federation Council’s integration club
Subject: Humanitarian basis for integration in post-Soviet space
Time: 10.30 a.m. on June 19
Participants: Federation Council speaker V. Matviyenko, Rossotrudnichetvo chief K. Kosachyov and others
Venue: Lotte Hotel Moscow (8/2, Novinsky boulevard)
Phone: 8495-692-1877, 8495-692-4145, 8495-692-7525
Fax: 8495-692-4305
5 p.m. Accreditation ends for conference
Subject: Labor market in financial sphere
Time: Noon on June 19
Participants: Representatives of Association of Russian Banks, Delovaya Rossiya and others
Venue: Financial Academy (55, Leningradsky avenue)
Phone: 8495-699-1302 (ext.: 853), 8916-691-4060
E-mail: info@bankir.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, and only in online form.
In Russia and worldwide:
Voronezh, Russia,
Public hearing by the Russian Public Chamber. Subject: Development of the Yelanskoye and Yolkinskoye deposits
Chkalovsk, Russia,
Start of a motor rally marking the 75th anniversary of Soviet pilot Valery Chkalov’s flight from Moscow to Vancouver, U.S.
Kazan,
Visit by Russia 2018 organizing committee and FIFA officials
Khanty-Mansiysk,
June 18-19: Russian-Danish conference on energy saving and energy efficiency
Paris,
Meeting
Subject: Prospects for Nagorno-Karabakh settlement
Participants: Armenian and Azeri foreign ministers
Los Cabos (Mexico),
G20 summit
Participant: President V. Putin
TUESDAY, June 19, 2012
In Moscow:
June 18-19: Negotiations
Subject: Iranian nuclear issue
Participants: Officials from P5+1, Iran
8:20 a.m. Start of two-day training sessions for a principal and a standby crew for the International Space Station and the Soyuz TMA-05M spacecraft
Venue: Cosmonaut Training Center, Zvyozdny Gorodok
10 a.m. Workshop
Subject: Role of property in building efficient and socially responsible business. Analysis of Russian and German models
Participants: Senators
Venue: Chamber of Commerce and Industry (6, Ilyinka street)
Phone: 8495-620-0081, 8495-620-0081, 8495-620-0290, 8495-620-0365
E-mail: lit@tpprf.ru
10 a.m. Demonstration by parents dissatisfied with the quality of catering at kindergartens and schools in Moscow’s Western Administrative Area
Venue: Area outside the building of the Western Area Education Administration of the Moscow Education Department, Ul. Studencheskaya 37
Tel.: 8963-766-6345
10 a.m. Opening of a two-day seminar of heads of Russian regional councils of judges
The agenda includes “Implementation of the Federal Specialized Program ‘Development of the Judiciary of Russia in 2007-2012′ and the Proposed Guidelines for the Federal Specialized Program ‘Development of the Judiciary of Russia in 2013-2017,’” and “Legislative Work of the Council of Judges of the Russian Federation in 2011-2012″
The participants include Y. Sidorenko, chairman of the Russian Council of Judges, T. Andreyeva, deputy chairperson of the Russian Supreme Arbitration Court, and A. Gusev, general director of the Judicial Department of the Russian Supreme Court
Venue: President Hotel, Ul. Bolshaya Yakimanka 24
Tel/fax: 609-5531
Tel.: 609-5526/9
Email: presscentr@cdep.ru
10:30 a.m. Meeting of Federation Council’s integration club
Subject: Humanitarian basis for integration in post-Soviet space
Participants: Federation Council speaker V. Matviyenko, Rossotrudnichetvo chief K. Kosachyov and others
Venue: Lotte Hotel Moscow (8/2, Novinsky boulevard)
Phone: 8495-692-1877, 8495-692-4145, 8495-692-7525
Fax: 8495-692-4305
11 a.m. News conference
Subject: Psychological support for the personnel of the Federal Penalty Enforcement Service
Venue: Federal Penalty Enforcement Service headquarters, Ul. Zhitnaya 14
Tel.: 8495-982-1992, 8499-799-3272
11 a.m. Hearing hosted by the Russian Public Chamber Commission on National Security and Social and Economic Conditions for Military Personnel, Members of Their Families and Veterans
Subject: Commemoration measures for those killed in performing their military duty and identification of the bodies of military servicemen and security personnel who have been killed
Venue: Public Chamber headquarters, Miusskaya Ploshchad 7, Building 1
11 a.m. News conference
Subject: “Health hazards in a megalopolis: how one can protect one’s lungs. Statistics, disease causes, and methods of diagnosing and treatment”
The speaker include A. Chuchalin, director of the Pulmonology Institute of the Russian Health Ministry and Russian chief internist, and A. Belevsky, chief pulmonologist of the Moscow Health Department
Venue: Komsomolskaya Pravda Publishing House, Stary Petrovsko-Razumovsky Proyezd 24
Tel.: 8495-786-6788, 665-7531, 637-6482
Noon Conference
Subject: Labor market in financial sphere
Participants: Representatives of Association of Russian Banks, Delovaya Rossiya and others
Venue: Financial Academy (55, Leningradsky avenue)
Phone: 8495-699-1302 (ext.: 853), 8916-691-4060
E-mail: info@bankir.ru
Noon. Deadline for seeking accreditation to a meeting at 4 p.m. on June 20 between State Duma Chairman Sergei Naryshkin and Russian historians marking the History of Russia Year
The meeting involves signing foundation documents for the Russian Historical Society
Meeting venue: Russian Government Reception House, Ul. Vozdvizhenka 16
Tel.: 692-2739
Email: vinograd@duma.gov.ru
12:30 p.m. First meeting of the organizing committee for a Russian national forum of large families
The participants include Sergei Mironov, leader of the A Just Russia party, Y. Mizulina, chairperson of the State Duma Committee on Family, Women and Children, and committee members O. Yepifanova and Y. Bychkova
Venue: State Duma, Ul. Okhotny Ryad 1
Tel.: 8985-766-5348
12:30 p.m. News conference
Subject: “When will proper summer start?”
Speaker: R. Vilfand, director, Russian Hydrometeorological Center
Venue: Interfax headquarters, Ul. Pervaya Tverskaya-Yamskaya 2
Tel.: 8499-250-8832
2 p.m. Roundtable hosted by the Federation Council Committee on Economic Policy
Subject: Monitoring of the enforcement of Federal Law No. 190-FZ, “On the Provision of Heat”
Roundtable chairman: V. Mezhevich, first deputy chairman of the committee
Venue: Federation Council, Ul. Bolshaya Dmitrovka 26
Tel.: 692-1877/4145/7525
Fax: 692-4305
3 p.m. Celebration of the 15th anniversary of Pro et Contra journal
Participants: Pro et Contra editor-in-chief M. Lipman
Venue: Moscow Carnegie Center (16/2, Tverskaya street)
Phone: 8495-935-8904, 8916-215-8966
E-mail: stugan@carnegie.ru
Noon Accreditation ends for meeting
Subject: Year of Russian History, signing of founding document of Russian Historic Society
Time: 4 p.m. on June 20
Participants: State Duma speaker S. Naryshkin, historians
Venue: Government reception house (16, Vozdvizhenka street)
Phone: 8495-692-2739
E-mail: vinograd@duma.gov.ru
4 p.m. Roundtable as part of business-government dialogue
Subject: “Illegal immigrant workers. Who needs this?”
The participants include officials at the Moscow Department for Labor and Employment, the Moscow Department for Interregional Cooperation, Ethnic Policy and Liaison with Religious Organizations, and the Federal Migration Service
Venue: Office of the department for the city and region of Moscow of the Delovaya Rossiya (Business Russia) group, Ul. Yauzskaya 10/2, Building 5
Tel.: 8985-923-5639, 8916-935-4453
4 p.m. Launching of an options program by the Abrau-Dyurso Russian sparkling wine house
The first few agreements are signed with leading company managers
Options are handed to various high-profile figures
Company chief executive B. Titov and option holders give a briefing
Venue: Sevastopolsky Prospekt 43A, Block 2
Tel.: 8903-774-9777
Hearing at the Moscow Arbitration Court of the Kontinent airline bankruptcy case
5 p.m. Opening of an exhibition marking the 80th anniversary of the Moscow Artists Union
Venue: Manezh Central Exhibition Hall, Manezhnaya Ploshchad 1
Tel.: 8495-692-2393
Email: stolica.press@yandex.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:
Aleksin, Tula Region Russia,
Opening ceremony for the Oka Paralympic center, attended by Sports Minister V. Mutko and the Russian Paralympic Committee leadership. The ceremony is followed by a joint meeting of the Russian Paralympic Committee and the Committee for control of the training of Russian teams for the 2012 Summer Paralympics in London
Astrakhan, Russia: Court hearing of a charge against former candidate for city mayor Oleg Shein, a member of the A Just Russia party, who is accused of organizing a rally on June 12 without permission from the authorities
Krasnodar,
Press conference at Interfax
Subject: Peculiarities of modernizing resort infrastructure in town of Yeisk
Nizhny Novgorod,
Visit by Russia 2018 organizing committee and FIFA officials
Kemerovo,
Press conference at Interfax
Subject: Improving work of Kemerovo regional department of Federation Migration Service to issues travel passports
Minsk,
Meeting of permanent envoys of member countries of the Commonwealth of Independent States to CIS bodies. Venue: CIS Executive Committee headquarters
Washington D.C.,
Senate Committee on Foreign Relations ponders the Justice for Sergei Magnitsky bill, a draft law to introduce entry visa and financial restrictions for some Russian officials
Los Cabos (Mexico),
G20 summit
Participant: President V. Putin
Rome,
Beginning of a three-day visit of a delegation of the International Affairs Committee of Russia’s Federation Council led by committee chairman Mikhail Margelov
WEDNESDAY, June 20, 2012
In Moscow:
Events due at State Duma (1, Okhotny Ryad street):
11 a.m. Meeting of expert council on advertising
Participants: MPs, officials
Phone: 8495-911-5301 (ext.: 115), 8903-239-3514
E-mail: xludencova@yandex.ru
2 p.m. 10 a.m. Workshop
Subject: Role of property in building efficient and socially responsible business. Analysis of Russian and German models
Phone: 8495-982-2774, 8495-692-5558
Fax: 8495-692-6280
E-mail: frolov@duma.gov.ru
Noon Press conference
Subject: Situation on burial market in Moscow
Speaker: Moscow trade and services department chief A. Nemeryuk
Venue: Interfax (2, Pervaya Tverskaya-Yamskaya street)
Phone: 8499-250-8832
Noon Press conference
Subject: Investment attractiveness of city property. Selling land plots in H1 of 2012
Speaker: Deputy Moscow land affairs department chief I. Tkachev and others
Venue: Russian Union of Journalists (8a, Nikitsky boulevard)
Phone: 8495-691-6486, 8495-697-1858, 8905-700-1896
2:30 p.m. Joint news conference by the State Duma working group for the revision of legislation on the business of appraisal and representatives of leading Russian self-regulated organizations of appraisers
Subject: “Key problems of development of legislation on appraisal”
The participants include I. Grachyov, chairman of the working group and chairman of the State Duma Committee on Energy, and A. Krutov, a member of the State Duma Committee on Budgets and Taxes
Venue: Reception Hall, Moscow House of Nationalities, Ul. Novaya Basmannaya 4
Tel.: 8495-662-7425
Email: ponomarenko@sroroo.ru
4 p.m. Meeting
Subject: History of Russia Year, signing of founding document of Russian Historic Society
Participants: State Duma speaker S. Naryshkin, historians
Venue: Government reception house (16, Vozdvizhenka street)
Phone: 8495-692-2739
E-mail: vinograd@duma.gov.ru
Journalists enter at 3 p.m.
9 p.m. Concert of U.S. thrash metal band Slayer
Venue: Arena Moscow club, Leningradsky Prospekt 31, Building 4
10:30 p.m. Rally before the departure of the Moscow-Minsk-Brest-Moscow Memorial Train marking Memory and Sorrow Day
Venue: Hall No. 4, Belorussky Station
The train leaves at 00:07 a.m. on June 21
Assembly at the station at 10 p.m.
Tel.: 633-6020, 8926-769-3770, 8926-203-2951
First day of a festival entitled “Another Theater from France”
Venue: Theater of Nations, Petrovsky Pereulok 3
The festival closes on June 29
Tel.: 629-5834, 8916-620-2479
*** 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:
Ulyanovsk, Russia,
Trial of Left Front leader Sergei Udaltsov, whom local student A. Pozdnyakova has accused of hitting her
Saransk,
Visit by Russia 2018 organizing committee and FIFA officials
Minsk,
Meeting of the expert group for revising draft rules on the center for the preservation of world legacy sites in the Commonwealth of Independent States. Venue: CIS Executive Committee headquarters
Rio de Janeiro,
First day of the United Nations’ three-day Rio + 20 conference on sustained development
THURSDAY, June 21, 2012
In Moscow:
11 a.m. Regular session of the Moscow Regional Duma
Address: Prospekt Mira 72
7 p.m. Concert of Russian chamber orchestra Moscow Virtuosi as part of the Face to Face program
Venue: Palace on the Yauza, Ploshchad Zhuravlyova 1
Tel.: 8495-965-1672, 8926-619-0205
Opening of the 34th Moscow International Film Festival
Venue: Oktyabr Cinema, Ul. Novy Arbat 24
Trial of Eduard Limonov, leader of unregistered party The Other Russia
Venue: Tverskoi Court
*** 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:
St. Petersburg,
June 21-23: Economic Forum. The agenda includes the conferment of the Global Energy annual international prize. Participants: President V. Putin, Central Bank chairman A. Ulyukayev, VTB chairman A. Kostin, VEB chairman V. Dmitriyev, Rosatom chief S. Kiriyenko and others
Meeting of the Economic Council of the Commonwealth of Independent States. The agenda includes proposed measures to implement the Interstate Program of Innovation Cooperation between CIS Member States
Samara,
Visit by Russia 2018 organizing committee and FIFA officials
Tyumen,
Press conference at Interfax/Tyumen Line news agency press center
Subject: Development of internal tourism in Tyumen region
First day of four-day quarter finals at the UEFA European Football Championship (Euro 2012)
FRIDAY, June 22, 2012
In Moscow:
Parliamentary hearings
Subject: Involvement of civil society in implementing state policy in countering corruption
Venue: Federation Council (26, Bolshaya Dmitrovka street)
Opening of the History of Russia Year exhibition
Venue: Central Election Commission headquarters, Bolshoi Cherkassky Pereulok 9
Tel.: 625-8692
12.30 p.m. Wreath laying ceremony at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier and the monument to Marshal Georgy Zhukov
Subject: Start of Great Patriotic War
Venue: Alexandrovsky Garden
Phone: 8495-633-6057
5 p.m. Traditional patriotic action entitled “Belorussky Station, Moscow, June 22, 1941,” marking Memory and Sorrow Day
The participants include World War II veterans, A. Chistyakov, chairman of the Moscow Public Relations Committee, and V. Dolgikh, chairman of the Moscow City Committee of veterans of War, Labor, the Armed Forces and Law Enforcement Services
Venue: Ploshchad Belorusskogo Vokzala
Tel./fax: 633-6034, 8926-203-2951, 8926-769-3770
Email: mokrova16@gmail.com, mokrova@kos.mos.ru
Hearing of a defamation suit from Accounts Chamber Chairman Sergei Stepashin against Liberal Democratic leader Vladimir Zhirinovsky
Venue: Nikulinsky Court
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:
Volgograd,
Visit by Russia 2018 organizing committee and FIFA officials
Leningrad Region, Russia,
Ladoga 2012 international educational youth forum. The forum closes on June 28
Kyiv,
Session during which the Pechersky District Court questions witnesses in the trial of former Ukrainian interior minister Yury Lutsenko, who is accused of illegal surveillance
SATURDAY, June 23, 2012
In Moscow:
Noon. Opening of a world aerobatics championship for pilots of Yakovlev Yak-52 aircraft
Venue: FINAM airfield, Bolshoye Gryzlovo, Moscow region
Tel.: 8916-519-8587
Email: natalia@1polet.ru
4 p.m. Youth festival as part of the Society without Drugs project
Subject: Marathon of Health 2012
Participants: Rospotrebnadzor chief G. Onishchenko
Phone: 8495-638-6699, 8901-524-6864
E-mail: kovalev@znopr.ru
Media forum as part of the 34th Moscow International Film Festival entitled “The Immersion: Towards Haptic Cinema”
Venue: Yekaterina Culture Foundation, Ul. Kuznetsky Most 21/5
Tel.: 8905-544-1883
Email: artpr@svergun.ru, grabar82@mail.ru, a.svergun@gmail.com, vorobiova71@gmail.com
*** 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:
Voronezh Region, Russia,
Open doors day at Stevenson Sputnik Ranch, a ranch set up by Darrell Stevenson, a farmer from Montana, U.S., and Russian entrepreneurs Sergei Goncharov and A. Buzuleyev
SUNDAY, June 24, 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 online form only
In Russia and worldwide:
Kemerovo, Russia,
Trial of three local residents detained on June 12 for an unsanctioned action
Strasbourg, France,
Summer session of the Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly. The session closes on June 30
