INTERFAX-ANNOUNCEMENTS-WEEK
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The bulletin comes out weekly. This is issue No. 22-2
MONDAY, June 4, 2012
In Moscow:
10:30 p.m. Prime Minister D. Medvedev speaks on a live show anchored by V. Pozner on Channel 1
June 4-7: Visit by U.S. trade mission on development of energy efficient technologies
Events due at State Duma (1, Okhotny Ryad):
Noon. Roundtable
Subject: aspects of legal regulation of the production, sale and turnover of drinking and mineral water in Russia
Organizer: the Duma Health Protection Committee
Phone: 8495-692-4402
1 p.m. State Duma Council session
2 p.m. Briefing
Speaker: A Just Russia leader S. Mironov
Phone: 8916-497-3381, 8985-766-5348
2 p.m. Roundtable
Subject: the Russian language as part of the cultural and spiritual legacy of humanity
Organizer: The Duma Education Committee
Phone: 8495-692-3698, 8910-429-4337
2:30 p.m. Meeting of Duma speaker S. Naryshkin with public figures
Occasion: Day of the Russian Language
Phone: 8495-692-7531, fax 8495-692-9146
E-mail: vinograd@duma.gov.ru
9 a.m. The launch of the School of a Young Leader program
Organizers: the Russian State Humanitarian University, the Foreign Ministry department for expatriates
Venue: the Russian State Humanitarian University (15, Ul. Chaynova)
Phone: 8499-250-6957
E-mail: press@rggu.ru
10 a.m. International conference
Subject: the search for a balance of private and public interests in the judgments of international and national courts
Participants: rector of the Russian Academy of Justice V. Yershov, president of the Russian Association of International Law A. Kapustin and others
Venue: The Russian Academy of Justice (69A, Ul. Novocheryomushkinskaya)
10 a.m. Conference
Subject: Influence of space weather on man in space and on Earth
Participants: Russian Academy of Sciences deputy president A. Grigoryev, Space Research Institute director L. Zelyony
Venue: Space Research Institute (84/32, Profsoyuznaya street)
E-mail: swh2012@cosmos.ru
10 a.m. Charitable Day of Blood Donorship
Venue: MOS OTIS central office (21, Ul. Kirpichnaya)
Phone: 8985-769-2207, 8919-991-0875
11 a.m. Reviewing conference of the Imperial Orthodox Palestine Society
Participants: chairman of society S. Stepashin, dean of the history department of Moscow State University S. Karpov, director of the State Hermitage M. Piotrovsky and others
Venue: Accounts Chamber (2, Zubovsky Bulvar)
Phone: 8903-726-6150
E-mail:info@rdsol.ru
Events due at RIA Novosti (4, Zubovsky boulevard, phone: 8495-637-5019, 8495-645-6472):
11 a.m. Press conference
Subject: neighborhood stores in Moscow – a myth or reality?
Participants: deputy head of the Moscow city government trade and services’ department N. Kuznetsov, chairman of the Board of Directors of ShagMag chain of stores M. Igitian and others
Phone: 8905-729-9315
E-mail: julia@dnaprt.ru
Noon Press conference
Subject: Field work in Russian Arctic. Plans for summer
Speakers: Deputy Natural Resources Minister R. Gizatulin, WWF Russia director I. Chestin and others
1 p.m. Roundtable
Subject: How to solve problems of Russian universities?
Participants: MPs, university teachers
Events due at Public Chamber (7/1, Miusskaya square, phone: 8495-221-8361):
Noon Public hearings
Subject: Creation of book on Russian history is main tasks of year of history
Participants: Public Chamber members
Noon Public hearings
Subject: Prevention of family violence
Participants: State Duma family affairs committee head I. Yarovaya, Public Chamber members
3 p.m. Public hearings
Subject: the foundation of social services in Russia
Participants: officials from the Labor Ministry, State Duma members, heads of socially-oriented nonprofit organizations
Phone: 8926-154-8013
1 p.m. Briefing
Subject: Presentation of architectural project of Central Children Mall on Lubyanskaya square
Venue: Ararat Park Hyatt (4, Neglinnaya street)
Phone: 8916-655-0435, 8495-589-2222 (ext.: 1164), 8903-716-5088
E-mail: svelikanova@yandex.ru
2 p.m. Opening ceremony
Subject: Center for social adaptation of migrants
Participants: FMS chief K. Romodanovsky, Metropolitan Vladimir of Chisinau and all-Moldova
Venue: Russian State Social University (4, Wilhelm Pieck street)
Phone: 8495-287-0607 (ext. 1113), 8916-797-1086
E-mail: pressa@ovtsmd.ru
3 p.m. Mourning
Subject: Victims of Houla massacre
Organizer: Movement for national unity of Syria in Moscow
Venue: 4/1, Mansurovsky side street
Phone: 8963-960-0011, 8916-748-7156, 8919-722-4072
4 p.m. Gala concert of the third Moscow integration festival of youth arts Star Carousel
Venue: Maly Theater (69, Ul. B. Ordynka)
4.20 p.m. Awarding ceremony
Subject: Golden Mercury 2011 prize for best businessman
Participant: Chamber of Commerce and Industry president S. Katyrin, MPs, senators, officials
Venue: World Trade Center (12, Krasnopresnenskaya embankment)
Phone: 8495-620-0186, 8495-620-0365, 8495-620-0290
E-mail: lit@tpprf.ru
8:30 p.m. A concert of Limp Bizkit group
Venue: Stadium. Live club (80, Leningradsky Prospekt, building 17)
11 a.m. Expanded intercom conference with heads of municipalities and districts on the performance of local self-governments
Chairman: Moscow region governor S. Shoigu
Venue: Moscow region government house (Krasnogorsk, Moscow region)
Phone: 8498-602-1167, 8903-686-5041
E-mail: perevalova@minpech.ru
The Central Bank releases a silver coin dedicated to the 175th birth anniversary of artist I. Kramskoy.
6 p.m. Accreditation ends to a roundtable on school catering in 2012.
The event is due at 11 a.m. on June 5 at RIA Novosti.
Participants: sanitation officials
Phone: 8921-923-6653
Accreditation continues to a festival of children’s television due on June 6-8 at 15, Ul. Akademika Korolyova
Phone: 8495-651-0834
E-mail pr@nat.ru
In Russia and worldwide:
St. Petersburg,
Russia-EU summit
Participant: President V. Putin
Murmansk,
Conference
Subject: Preparations for Barents 2012 drills due in June
Rostov-on-Don,
Press conference at Interfax
Subject: Internal security at Rostov region police. Countering corruption
Ulyanovsk,
Leninsky district justice of peace hears the case of local student A. Pozdnyakova who accuses opposition figure Sergei Udaltsov of beating her.
Yekaterinburg,
A visit by presidential administration head S. Ivanov to introduce presidential envoy to the Urals Federal District I. Kholmanskikh to the heads of Urals regions
Sverdlovsk region court will bring the sentence of I.Gaidamachuk charged with the murder of 17 senior citizens.
Dimitrovograd (Ulyanovsk region),
Offsite session of Federation Council science and education committee
Subject: Regional priorities of innovative development
Chelyabinsk region,
June 4-9: Snowstorm 2012 tactical drills
Krasnoyarsk,
Press conference at Interfax
Subject: Participation of monitors of Russian Lawyer Association in Krasnoyarsk mayoral election
Minsk (Belarus),
June 4-7: Session of CIS interstate council for cooperation on construction
Armenia,
Visit by U.S. Secretary of State H. Clinton
Uzbekistan,
Visit by President V. Putin
Berlin (Germany),
An international conference on the nonproliferation of nuclear weapons
Libya,
Another court session to hear the case of Russian, Ukrainian and Belarusian citizens charged with complicity with the regime of former Libyan leader M. Gaddafi
TUESDAY, June 5, 2012
In Moscow:
Russian President V. Putin to pay a state visit to China on June 5-6.
9.45 a.m. Conference
Title: Bioenergy 2012
Participant: Officials, MPs
Venue: Agriculture Ministry (1/11, Orlikov side street)
Phone: 8495-411-8145, 8903-755-4854, 8916-950-7669
E-mail: pressa@agromedia.ru, pr@flashcomm.ru
11 a.m. Roundtable
Subject: “2012 school meals. Year results”
Attendees: O. Aksyonova, head of the Rospotrebnadzor Sanitary Oversight Directorate; V. Chernigov, Director of the Institute of Corporate Catering; V. Kuchma, Director of the Research Institute for the Hygiene and Health Care of Children and Adolescents at the Scientific Center for Children’s Health; and others
Venue: RIA Novosti (4 Zubovsky Blvd)
Phone: 921-923-66-53.
10 a.m. Forum
Subject: Water: ecology and technology
Venue: Crocus City Hall (65th – 66th kilometer of Moscow Ring Road)
Phone: 8965-312-9291
E-mail: pr@topo-eco.ru
11 a.m. Exhibition
Subject: Russia in Holy Land. 130th anniversary of cooperation of Imperial Orthodox Palestinian Society with Middle East peoples
Participants: State Duma speaker S. Naryshkin, Federation Council speaker V. Matviyenko, Moscow mayor S. Sobyanin, Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and all-Russia
Noon Briefing
Speaker: Imperial Orthodox Palestinian Society head, Audit Chamber chairman S. Stepashin
Venue: Manezh exhibition hall (1, Manezhnaya square)
Phone: 8903-726-6150
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):
Noon Press conference
Subject: Time has come to return Pushkin monument to Tverskoi boulevard
Speakers: Experts
2 p.m. Press conference
Subject: In the wake of Kushchevskaya. Police in Stavropol territory’s Budyonovsk
Speakers: Human rights activists
1 p.m. Roundtable
Subject: Ecology needs restarting. Ecological crisis means Earth crisis
Participants: Scientists
Venue: Central House of Journalists (8a, Nikitsky boulevard)
Phone: 8495-697-2812, 8495-691-0987, 8916-644-6239
E-mail: domjour@bk.ru, e.papul@mail.ru
1 p.m. Press conference
Subject: “Three days to go before the Euro 2012 in Poland: the country’s preparedness for the championship”
Speaker: W. Zajaczkowski, Polish Ambassador to Russia
Venue: Komsomolskaya Pravda Publishing House (1/23 Stary Petrovsko-Razumovsky Proyezd)
Phone: (495) 786-67-88; 665-75-31; 637-64-82.
4 p.m. the Moscow Pushkin Assembly as part of the Pushkin Day of Russia and the Russian Language Day
Subject: “The Pushkin State Museum and the Our Heritage magazine. Commonwealth and cooperation”
Venue: the Pushkin Fine Arts Museum (12 Prechistenka St),
Phone: (495) 637-73-39.
6 p.m. Russia Eco Fashion Week
Venue: MSU Botanic Garden (26/1, Prospekt Mira avenue)
8:30 p.m. A Limp Bizkit gig
Venue: Stadium. Live Club (80 Leningradsky Avenue, structure 17)
Congress
Subject: Era-Glonass: IT for higher safety on roads
Participate: Deputy Prime Minister V. Surkov
Venue: Radisson Slavyanskaya (2, Evropy square)
3 p.m. Accreditation ends for a press conference on the annual motor show, Moscow City Racing. Speakers: G. Fisichella, the Ferrari team pilot; V. Yemelyanova, Moscow City Racing organizers’ representative; and others. The event will take place at the VGTRK press center (22 Pyataya Ulitsa Yamskogo Polya St) at 12 p.m.
Phone: 917-563-62-82; e-mail: mcr@imedia.ru.
4 p.m. Accreditation ends for press conference
Subject: International film festival in Italy’s Taormina
Time: Noon on June 6
Speakers: Italian Ambassador to Russia A. Z. Landi
Venue: Socio-cultural Initiatives Foundation (70, Bolhaya Ordynka street)
Phone: 8905-578-5772, 8495-627-5732
Accreditation ends for festival of children TV
Title: Switch On!
Date: June 6-7
Venue: Russian TV and Radio Network company (15, Akademika Korolyova street)
Phone: 8495-651-0834
E-mail: pr@nat.ru
In Russia and worldwide:
St. Petersburg,
June 5-15: APART youth theater festival
Petrozavodsk,
June 5-7: Offsite session of Federation Council committee for regional affairs
Subject: Legal assistance to preserving labor force in extreme North
Krasnodar,
Press conference at Interfax
Subject: Krasnodar summer. Surprises for tourists
Perm,
Press conference at Interfax
Subject: Printing leaflets on rights of people living in dormitories
Khanty-Mansiisk,
June 5-9: To Save and Preserve environmental TV festival
Minsk, Belarus,
June 5-6: the CIS Executive Commission to hold a session of the CIS Intergovernmental Council for Cooperation in Construction.
China,
June 5-6: Uzbekistan President I. Karimov to pay a formal visit at the invitation of Chinese President Hu Jintao.
WEDNESDAY, June 6, 2012
In Moscow:
Noon Press conference
Subject: International film festival in Italy’s Taormina
Speakers: Italian Ambassador to Russia A. Z. Landi
Venue: Socio-cultural Initiatives Foundation (70, Bolhaya Ordynka street)
Phone: 8905-578-5772, 8495-627-5732
Noon. Press conference
Subject: the annual motor show, Moscow City Racing
Speakers: Fisichella, the Ferrari team pilot; V. Yemelyanova, Moscow City Racing organizers’ representative; and others
Venue: the VGTRK press center (22 Pyataya Ulitsa Yamskogo Polya St)
Phone: 917-563-62-82; e-mail: mcr@imedia.ru.
Noon. Roundtable
Subject: “Providing transport security. Technologies or humans: who will protect the passenger more reliably?”
Attendees: G. Denisyuk, deputy head of the Transport Security and Special Programs Department at the Transport Ministry; A. Starovoitov, Deputy Chairman of the State Duma Transport Committee; P. Tokarev, Director of the Institute of Complex Security at the Moscow University of Communications Lines; and others
Venue: the MK Press Center (7 Ulitsa 1905 goda, structure 1)
Phone: 916-675-53-68; 8-916-191-59-23.
1 p.m. Roundtable
Subject: Relaunch of public councils at federal agencies
Participant: Minister for Open Government M. Abyzov, Education Minister D. Livanov and others
Venue: RIA Novosti (4, Zubovsky boulevard)
Phone: 8495-645-6524, 8495-645-6472
2 p.m. The award ceremony for large families, Parents’ glory of the City of Moscow, as part of the Children’s Day celebration
Venue: the Great Palace at the Tsaritsyno Museum (1 Dolskaya St)
Phone: 916-708-36-28; e-mail:karavaeva@vip-concert.ru.
3 p.m. Concert
Subject: 130th anniversary of Imperial Orthodox Palestinian Society
Venue: the Manezh Central Exhibition Hall (1 Manezh Square)
Nagatinsky Court to hear the case filed by Y. Yarosh against the Russian Presidential Property Management Department, seeking a compensation for a road accident involving the vehicle of presidential representative to the Duma G. Minkh.
June 6-7: Festival of children TV
Title: Switch On!
Venue: Russian TV and Radio Network company (15, Akademika Korolyova street)
Phone: 8495-651-0834
E-mail: pr@nat.ru
The award ceremony for the winners of the Open Cup of Peoples’ Friendship in Russian.
9 a.m. A press tour to a marshmallow factory in Kolomna, Moscow region
Subject: the reform of Russian cultural sites with the help of social entrepreneurship
Phone: 903-612-82-36.
In Russia and worldwide:
St. Petersburg,
June 6-8: Meeting of high representatives for security
Gelendzhik,
June 6-9: Forum
Subject: Grain market: yesterday, today, tomorrow
Tyumen,
Press conference at Interfax/Tyumen Line news agency joint press center
Subject: Development of regional tourist programs in Tyumen region
Almaty (Kazakhstan),
Conference
Subject: Security problems in Central Asia
Beijing, China,
June 6-7: Meeting of SCO presidents
Participant: President V. Putin
Minsk, Belarus,
June 6-7: the CIS Executive Committee will host a session of experts drafting a Protocol on the mechanism of handover by the CIS competent authorities of narcotic drugs, psychotropic substances and their precursors, firearms, ammunition, explosive substances and explosive devices, which serve as material evidence in criminal cases.
THURSDAY, June 7, 2012
In Moscow:
Government session
Subject: Changes to federal property privatization plan
1 p.m. A public session of the State Duma Security and Anti-Corruption Committee as part of the Eurasian Forum on Information Security and Information Cooperation, Infoforum-CITI
Venue: Moscow Government (36 Novy Arbat St)
Phone/fax: (495) 280-10-51; e-mail: info@infoforum.ru.
2 p.m. Roundtable
Subject: Leading role of political parties in forming civil society
Participants: MPs, senators, CEC members and others
Venue: Independent Press Center (17/9, Prechistenka street)
Phone: 8495-232-2891, 8495-637-3126
E-mail: yakovlevapress@yandex.ru, yakovleva@infolegal.ru
Moscow City Court to hear a complaint against a guilty verdict to businessman A. Kozlov jailed for five years for fraud.
In Russia and worldwide:
Russian school graduates are sitting the final state exam in mathematics.
Sverdlovsk region,
Court hearings in a criminal case against Yekaterinburg City Duma deputy M. Petlin (Yabloko) charged with bribe taking.
Khanty-Mansiisk,
June 7-9: a conference, “Ecological education and enlightenment in the interests of sustainable development”
Kyiv, Ukraine,
Pechersky District Court to arraign ex-head of the Ukrainian Interior Ministry’s Department of External Surveillance A. Pukach of the murder of reporter G. Gongadze.
Minsk, Belarus,
June 7-8: the CIS Executive Committee to host a session of experts drafting an Agreement on the CIS Economic Court status.
Astana, Almaty, Kazakhstan,
June 7-9: the Day of Azerbaijan Culture
Kazakhstan,
Visit by President V. Putin
Geneva (Switzerland),
June 7-8: Another round of discussions on stability and security in South Caucasus
FRIDAY, June 8, 2012
In Moscow:
11 a.m. Conference
Subject: “Growth trends in the optimal meal sector in Russia”
Venue: Russian Union of Industrialists and Enrepreneurs (17 Kotelnicheskaya Emb.)
Phone: 903-182-67-59; 8 (495) 988-26-78; e-mail: rsppzdrav@gmail.com.
The first information plague to appear on the White Chambers building (3/1 Prechistenka St) under the Big City’s Plagues project of the Moscow Department of Cultural Heritage
Phone: 637-40-43.
June 8-12: the Red Square and the Lenin Mausoleum will be closed to visitors due to preparations for and conduct of the Russia Day festivities.
The first stage of the fifth Assembly of Peoples of the Moscow region under the motto, “Peoples’ Friendship – the basis of unity and stability in the Moscow region”
Venue: Mytischi, Moscow region
A roundtable on “The pressing issues concerning the state and public partnership in strengthening the unity of the Russian nation across the Moscow region”
Phone: 903-686-50-41; 8 (498) 602-11-67.
In Russia and worldwide:
St. Petersburg,
Nevsky District Court to hear a criminal case against nationalist V. Datsik charged with a church arson.
Tyumen,
Press conference at Interfax/Tyumen Line news agency joint press center
Subject: Novelties in education sphere in Tyumen region
Khanty-Mansiisk,
June 8-9: a conference on “Keeping regional Red Books: results, problems, prospects. The role of the Specially Protected Nature Territories in keeping the Red Books”
Khabarovsk,
Press conference at Interfax
Subject: Bank of Moscow strategy in Khabarovsk territory
Tajikistan,
June 8-14: Peace Mission 2012 drills
Poland, Ukraine,
Start of Euro 2012
Minsk, Belarus,
The CIS Executive Committee to host a session of the Tourism Board of the member states which signed the Tourism Cooperation Agreement.
SATURDAY, June 9, 2012
In Moscow:
3 p.m. Press conference
Speaker: Y. Borisov, Yakutia Preident
Venue: ITAR -TASS (4 Tverskoi Blvd)
Phone: (495) 629-60-34; (499) 791-03-14.
11 a.m. A conference organized by Delovaya Rossiya
Subject: “The strategy of decisive reforms”
Attendees: members of the Moscow regional government
Venue: the Engineer Innovative Center (Kratovo, Moscow region)
Phone: (495) 698-08-62 (ext. 124); 8-916-935-44-53; e-mail: pr@mgodeloros.ru.
There will be no changing of the horse/foot guards ceremony at Sobornaya Square of the Moscow Kremlin due to preparations for, and conduct of state events.
In Russia and worldwide:
No announcement yet available
SUNDAY, June 10, 2012
In Moscow:
June 10-11: the 15th international musical festival, Maxidrom, at Tushino airfield.
The premier of A Midsummer Night’s Dream opera
Venue: the Stanislavski and Nemirovich-Danchenko Musical Theater
In Russia and worldwide:
Krasnoyars,
A mayoral election
Osh (Kyrgyzstan),
June 10-15: Commemoration of June 2010 riots
France,
The first round of the parliamentary elections выборов.
MONDAY, June 11, 2012
In Moscow:
No announcement yet available
In Russia and worldwide:
Georgia,
June 11-16: Week of NATO
TUESDAY, June 12, 2012
In Moscow:
No announcement yet available
In Russia and worldwide:
Day of Russia
