INTERFAX-ANNOUNCEMENTS-WEEK
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The bulletin comes out weekly. This is issue No. 18
Interfax schedule for May 9 holiday
Russia celebrates Victory Day on May 9.
In connection with this, May 6 – 9 (Sunday – Wednesday) will not be working days in Russia. Saturdays, May 5 and May 12, will be working days.
The next issue of weekly announcements will come out on Wednesday, May 9.
THURSDAY, May 10, 2012
In Moscow:
Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov visits China on May 10 and 11 in preparation for President Vladimir Putin’s visit to Beijing.
Leader of A Just Russia Party faction in the Duma, Sergei Mironov attends the official opening of an exhibit of rehabilitation equipment and know-how, titled “Integration. Life. Society.”
Venue: Expocenter.
Address: Krasnopresnenskaya Naberezhnaya 15.
Tel.: 8-903-667-8498.
2 p.m. Concert
Subject: 67th anniversary of WW II Victory
Venue: Christ the Savior Cathedral (15, Voklhonka street)
Phone: 8495-623-2004, 8906-770-0458, 8903-681-2751
3 p.m. Press conference
Subject: New economic pattern of Russian-Greek investment and innovative relations
Speakers: Greek Ambassador to Russia M. Spinellis, Rossotrudnichestvo chief, president of Russian-Greek friendship society G. Muradov
Venue: Itar-Tass (2, Tverskoi boulevard)
Phone: 8495-692-1522
4 p.m. Presentation
Subject: Relentless Tolerance album of social anti-utopia stories
Venue: Russian Union of Writers (13, Komsomolsky avenue)
6.30 p.m. Opening ceremony
Subject: World Chess Championship
Participants: Presidential aide A. Dvorkovich, world chess champion V. Anand, Anand’s challenger B. Gelfand, FIDE president K. Ilyumzhinov
Venue: Tretyakov Gallery (10, Lavrushinsky side street)
Phone: 8915-412-7709, 8905-791-7651, 8495-974-2262 (ext.: 1401)
E-mail: m.gluhovsky@gmail.com
Moscow’s Tverskoi court hears ex-Astrakhan mayor candidate O.Shein’s libel suit against leader of the United Russia faction A.Vorobyov.
The Moscow Election Commission discusses the prospect of giving former Moscow region mayor B.Gromov the status of a deputy of the regional legislature.
Meeting of Central Bank board
May 10 -12: Exhibition of rehabilitation equipment
Title: Integration. Life. Society
Venue: Expocenter (14, Krasnopresnenskaya embankment)
Phone: 8499-795-2779
Fax: 8499-795-2771
E-mail: oberemovae@messedi.ru, kovalenkoe@messedi.ru
In Russia and worldwide:
The Leningrad regional legislature debates the issue of granting governor’s powers t A.Drozdenko.
May 10. Talks are held in Akkord in Kazakhstan between the Kazakh and Kyrgyz presidents.
The Kremlin Horse Guards join festivities in Britain on May 10, 11 and 13, marking the diamond anniversary of the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II.
China,
May 10-11: Visit by Foreign Minister S. Lavrov
Subject: Preparation of President V. Putin visit
FRIDAY, May 11, 2012
In Moscow:
The inauguration of Moscow region governor S. Shoigu.
11 a.m. – presentation of a joint project, Aquarelle (Watercolor), by Moscow Metropolitan and the Tretyakov Gallery
Venue: the Partizanskaya metro station
Presentation of a special train that will exhibit reproductions of the water paintings by Russian artists. The train service will be available on the Arbatsko-Pokrovskaya subway line.
Phone: 684-96-20; e-mail: news@mosmetro.ru; pressa@mosmetro.ru.
1 p.m. Press conference
Subject: Spring passenger campaign 2012: routes, tariffs, services
Speakers: RZhD deputy president M. Akulov
Venue: Komsomolskaya Pravda publishing house (1/23, Stary Petrovko-Razumovsky passage)
Phone: 8495-786-6788, 8495-665-7531, 8495-637-6482
1 p.m. Press conference
Subject: Radiomania 2012 national prize
Venue: RIA Novosti (4, Zubovsky boulevard)
Phone: 8495-617-3980, 8926-061-6169
E-mail: kremen@mediasoyuz.ru
2.30 p.m. Opening ceremony
Subject: Exhibition on technical means of communication during WW II
Venue: Great Patriotic War Central Museum (3, Ploshchad Pobedy square)
Phone: 8495-787-0777 (ext.: 181)
Fax: 8495-787-0788
E-mail: n.smirnova@mastertel.ru
8:30 p.m. on May 11 and 12 – a Guns N’ Roses concert at the Stadium Live concert hall (80 Leningradsky Prospect, structure.17).
Moscow City Court to hear complaints against the custody extension for the Pussy Riot band members arrested for the punk-prayer at the Christ the Savior Cathedral.
The Zamoskvoretsky Court to hear a case against former Yukos top manager A. Spirichev charged with fraud as part of the Yukos inquiry.
May 11-12: a training seminar for regional coordinators of the international open grant competition, Orthodox Christian Initiative
Venue: Christ the Savior Cathedral (15 Volkhonka Street)
Attendees: S. Kiriyenko, Coordination Committee Executive Director and Rosatom General Director; Metropolitan Varsonofy of Saransk and Mordovia; V. Fadeyev, co-chairman of the Joint Experts’ Board and Expert magazine editor-in-chief; and others.
Phone: (495) 781-63-30 (ext.109).
In Russia and worldwide:
St. Petersburg,
A concert by U.S. rock band Garbage.
Krasnodar,
Press conference at Interfax
Speaker: Deputy Krasnodar territory governor V. Lukoyanov
Astrakhan,
Kirovsky District Court to hear a lawsuit claim against the mayoral election results, filed by ex-mayoral candidate O. Shein.
Tyumen,
Press conference at Interfax
Subject: New technologies at Tyumen region libraries
SATURDAY, May 12, 2012
In Moscow:
8 p.m. – a concert by U.S. rock band Garbage
Venue: Crocus City Hall (65-66 kilometers from the MKAD, Moscow ring road).
The Changing of the Guard ceremony will not be held at the Sobornaya Square in the Moscow Kremlin due to another engagement of the presidential regiment.
3 p.m. The opening of the Melikhovo Spring theater festival. The festival will continue until May 19.
Venue: Melikhovo, Moscow region
Phone: 8-926-203-31-47; e-mail: melihovo-vesna@mail.ru.
12:30 p.m. An off-site meeting of the press center of the Russia’s Coca-Cola Olympic team
Venue: the Ozero Krugloye (Round Lake) sports base (Moscow region, Dmitrovsky district)
Attendees: O. Zaitsev, Vice President of the Russian Water Jumps Federation; members of the national Olympic team. The bus for the press departs from the Russian Olympic Committee building (N8 Luzhnetskaya Embankment) at 10:30 a.m.
Phone: 725-45-76; 8-915-350-38-94; e-mail: smirnova@roc.ru.
In Russia and worldwide:
The Federal Forestry Agency (Rosleskhoz) to hold National Forest Planting Day nationwide.
Ulyanovsk,
A court to hear a criminal case against opposition activist S. Udaltsov, who allegedly beat up a local woman, A. Pozdnyakova.
Kyiv (Ukraine),
Opposition forum
SUNDAY, May 13, 2012
In Moscow:
No announcement yet available
In Russia and worldwide:
Vienna,
May 13-14: a round of talks between Tehran and the IAEA over Iran’s nuclear program.
