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MONDAY, October 3, 2011
In Moscow:
October 3 – 4: Visit by OSCE Secretary General L. Zannier
Visit by Indian Defense Minister A. K. Antony
Events due at Federation Council (26, Ul. Bolshaya Dmitrovka, phone: 8495-692-1877, 8495-692-5604, 8495-692-7525):
Noon. Meeting
Participants: Federation Council deputy speaker I. Umakhanov, Omani Ambassador to Russia M. Al Khasan
3 p.m. International conference
Subject: Space researche in CIS: integration, development potential and legal aspect
Participants: Federation Council speaker V. Matviyenko, Communications Minister I. Schegolev
Events due at State Duma (1, Okhotny Ryad):
10.30 a.m. Roundtable
Subject: Topical issues of improving legal regulation of law enforcers’ activity to combat corruption
Organizer: State Duma Security Committee
Phone: 8495-692-4245, 8495-692-8920
Noon. State Duma Council session
2 p.m. Parliamentary hearings
Subject: Bill on support to youth and children public organizations
Organizer: State Duma Youth Affairs Committee
Phone: 8495-692-9357
2.30 p.m. Roundtable
Subject: Russian people in Russia: status, problems, and prospects
Organizer: Communist Party
Phone: 8495-692-4154
10 a.m. Press conference
Subject: Results of 2011 harvesting campaign. Achievements and problems in agriculture
Speaker: Russian Grain Union president A. Zlochevsky
Venue: AiF press center (42, Myasnitskaya street)
Phone: 8495-625-2148, 8495-623-9432
Noon Press conference
Subject: Work of regional and international standardization. Important events in work of ISO and IEC
Speaker: Rosstandart chief G. Elkin
Venue: MK press center (7, Ulitsa 1905 Goda street)
Phone: 8499-256-6110
E-mail: sos@mk.ru
Noon. Briefing
Subject: Results of nominating candidates for State Duma election
Speakers: Civil Control association for protection of electoral rights executives
Venue: Independent Press Center (17/9, Prechistenka street)
Phone: 8495-232-2891, 8495-637-3126
E-mail: yakovlevapress@yandex.ru, yakovleva@infolegal.ru
2:30 p.m. News conference.
Subject: How can a landsite be sold and the realtor locked behind bars?
Speakers: Convict D.Zaslavsky’s wife and defense lawyer.
Venue: 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: How many students does Russia need? Should one limit number of budget students?
Speaker: Higher School of Economics rector Ya. Kuzminov
Venue: Komsomolskaya Pravda publishing house (1/23, Stary Petrovsko-Razumovsky passage)
Phone: 8495-786-6788, 8495-665-7531, 8495-637-6482
News conference.
Subject: The opening of a new modern art center, Platforma.
Speakers: Culture Minister A.Avdeyev, Platforma artistic director K.Serebrennikov.
Venue: Vinzavod modern arts center.
Tel.: 8-915-465-8009; e-mail: press.platform@gmail.com
Events due at RIA Novosti, 4 Zubovsky Bulvar
1 p.m. Video conference
Subject: Results of NATO-Russia Council meeting at level of ambassadors, results of visit to Lisbon
Speaker: Russia’s presidential envoy to NATO, presidential special representative for missile defense issues D. Rogozin
Venue: RIA Novosti (4, Zubovsky boulevard)
Phone: 8495-637-5019, 8495-645-6472
3 p.m. News conference.
Subject: The Interior Ministry’s switch to online services from October 1 2011.
Speaker: the chief of the ministry’s Department for Information Technology, Communications and Protection of Information Lt. Gen. Mikhail Tyurkin.
1.30 p.m. Solemn ceremony
Subject: Awarding of Yasnaya Polyana literature prize for 2011
Participants: Director of L. Tolstoi museum in Yasnaya Polyana, journalist V. Tolstoi and others
Venue: Bolshoi theater (Kopiyevsky side street)
2 p.m. Press conference
Subject: Rating of fundamental efficiency of 100 leading companies and 3,500 enterprises in Russia
Speakers: Federal Natural Resources Oversight Service (Rosprirodnadzor) Director V. Kirillov, Rosprirodnadzor’s public council chairman A. Malyshevsky, Interfax environmental and energy rating agency director A. Martynov
Venue: Interfax (2, Pervaya Tverskaya-Yamskaya street)
Phone: 8499-250-8832
3 p.m. Conference.
Subjects: The Communist Party’s election list; registration of the Communist Party’s representatives; the opening of the Communist Party’s special election account.
Press briefing after the conference.
Speaker: Central Election Commission Secretary N. Konkin.
Venue: Central Election Commission headquarters.
Address: 9 Bolshoi Cherkassky Pereulok.
Tel.: 606-1325, 625-0789.
4 p.m. Meeting
Participants: U.S. scientist, writer W. Engdahl, public figures, experts
Venue: Public Chamber (7/1, Miusskaya square)
Phone: 8495-221-8361
4 p.m. Lecture
Speaker: Catholic University of Leuven professor J.-F. Tisse
Venue: Higher School of Economics (20, Myasnitskaya street)
Phone: 8495-621-7873, 8495-628-5598
4 p.m. Press conference
Subject: Reorganization of Gneiss music college
Speakers: Teachers, graduates
Venue: Central House of Journalists (8a, Nikitsky boulevard)
Phone: 8495-697-2812, 8916-644-6239
4.30 p.m. Press conference
Subject: Meeting of working group on education, culture, sport and media of Russian-U.S. presidential commission
Speakers: Presidential envoy for cultural cooperation M. Shvydkoi, U.S. acting Under Secretary of Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs A. Stock
Venue: Itar-Tass (2, Tverskoi boulevard)
Phone: 8495-629-6403, 8495-629-6034
7 p.m. A concert as part of Senior Citizens Day
Subject: Connection of generations
Venue: Teatr Estrady (20/2, Bersenevskaya embankment)
Phone: 8906-715-1904, 8903-796-4253
E-mail: rme84@mail.ru, tbn@tbn-russia.tv, soloviova@yandex.ru
7 p.m. Opening of the Day of Palestinian Culture festival.
Venue: Maly Theater’s smaller stage.
Address: 69 Bolshaya Ordynka..
Moscow’s Basmanny District Court to hold preliminary hearings into ex-Moscow Mayor Yu. Luzhkov libel suit against Ekho Moskvy radio station and businessman A. Lebedev
Moscow’s Presnensky Court will hear a suit filed by founder of cosmonautics Tsiolkovsky’s great grandson S.Samburov, against the Russian government, seeking the recognition of his rights to own his great grandfather’s manuscripts.
The Moscow City Court will hear the murder case of Spartak fan Ye. Sviridov;
A suit seeking the rehabilitation of A.Yermilov, an ex-suspect in the abduction case by former employees of Euroset company.
The federal Anti-Monopoly Service starts hearing the criminal case against Rosaviatsia on counts of violating the rules of organizing a tender for aviation equipment.
In Russia and worldwide:
Rostov-on-Don,
Press conference at Interfax
Subject: Peculiarities of 2011 autumn draft in Rostov region
The Stavropol territorial court hears the case of Ch. Rustamov, accused of carrying out a terror attack in central Stavropol in May 2010.
The Krasnodar territorial court announces the results of a
forensic examination in the case of former Sochi policeman I.Galkin, accused of carrying out a series of explosions in Sochi in 2008-09.
Yekaterinburg,
Press conferences at Interfax
Subject: Prospects for developing small and medium-size businesses in Sverdlovsk region
Subject: Urals Pharmaceutical Cluster sign accord to produce German pharmaceuticals in Sverdlovsk region
Subject: Results of meeting of state anti-drug committee: new forms of work with youths, Agriculture Ministry’s initiative to grow hemp
St.Petersburg
A memorial service at the St.Nchoals Naval Church for the crew of the K-219 nuclear submarine, who died in an accident in 1986 off U.S. coast.
The 8th Spartakiade of the CIS armies is opened.
October 3-4.
Conference.
Subject: Cadastre activities, changes in the Land Code.
Ukraine,
Kyiv,
Pechersky District Court to continue hearing the case against ex-Interior Ministry officer A. Pukach, charged with murdering journalist G. Gongadze
Babiy Yar,
Flower laying ceremony
Subject: Mass executions in 1941
2 p.m. News conference.
Subject: Russian-Ukrainian relations.
Venue: Interfax press center.
Dushanbe
Court hearings of the case of Nuri Zindagi newspaper reporter M. Ismoilov, accused of slanders, insults, inciting ethnic, racial and religious hatred, and extortion.
Geneva (Switzerland),
October 3 – 4: 17th round of discussions on security in South Caucasus
Luxembourg.
October 3-4.
An EU ministerial meeting.
Strasbourg (France),
Opening of PACE autumn session.
October 3. Yulia Tymoshenko’s daughter invited to attend the session at which Ukraine Foreign Minister K. Hryshchenko will speak. The situation in Ukraine will be discussed.
Brussels.
October 3-4. International conference.
Subject: A single energy platform as the guarantee of Europe’s safe future. Russia-EU partnership dialogue.
Speaker: Vice Chairman of the State Duma’s Energy Committee I. Grachev.
