INTERFAX-ANNOUNCEMENTS-THURSDAY
Bulletin is released Sunday to Friday. Issue No. 159
In Moscow:
Meeting
Participants: President V. Putin, King Juan Carlos of Spain
Noon Session of council on economic modernization and innovations
Participant: Federation Council speaker V. Matviyenko
Venue: Federation Council (26, Bolshaya Dmitrovka street)
Phone: 8495-692-1877, 8495-692-4145, 8495-692-7525
Fax: 8495-692-4305, 8495-623-3810
10 a.m. Roundtable
Subject: Anti-tobacco bill
Participants: RUIE presdinet A. Shokhin and others
Venue: RUIE (17, Kotelnicheskaya embankment)
Phone: 8495-663-0404 (ext.: 1133)
E-mail: pr@rspp.ru
Events due at RIA Novosti (4, Zubovsky boulevard, phone: 8495-645-6472):
11 a.m. Press conference
Subject: Results of expedition to monitor consequences of Fukushima NPP disaster
Speaker: Russian Geographic Society president A. Chilingarov, Rospotrebnadzor chief G. Onishchenko and others
11 a.m. Presentation
Subject: ‘Military reform: on way to new image of Russian army’ report by Valdai club
Speakers: Experts, scientists
1 p.m. Press conference
Subject: Bananas with cocaine flavor. Details of special operation to cut cocaine shipments from South America
Speakers: Officials from Interior Ministry, Federal Security Service and Federal Customs Service
1 p.m. Moscow – Volgograd – Barnaul video link-up
Subject: Prevention of natural disasters in Russia
Participants: Rosleskhoz deputy chief N. Krotov and others
2 p.m. Moscow – S. Petersburg video link-up
Subject: Providing housing to soldiers in Western Military District
3 p.m. Roundtable
Subject: Prospects for developing public utility sphere in Moscow
Participants: Officials
11 a.m. Press conference
Subject: Eastern Siberia and Far East as country’s development engine
Speaker: Federation Council deputy speaker S. Shtyrov
Venue: AiF press center (42, Myasnitskaya street)
Phone: 8495-697-9843, 8495-692-1877
Fax: 8495-697-9843
11 a.m. Press conference
Subject: Problems with providing vital medical aid to HIV-stricken people
Speakers: Activists
Venue: Independent Press Center (17/9, Prechistenka street)
Phone: 8495-232-2891, 8495-637-3126
E-mail: yakovlevapress@yandex.ru, yakovleva@infolegal.ru
2 p.m. Press conference
Subject: Russian national volleyball team
Speaker: Russian national volleyball team coach V. Alekno
Venue: Marriott Grand Hotel (26/1, Tverskaya street)
3 p.m. Joint session of Moscow and Moscow region prosecutors’ offices
Agenda: Prosecutors’ control over observance of laws on countering drug trafficking
Venue: 27, Novokuznetskaya street
Phone: 8495-959-1230, 8495-959-2098
E-mail: 9518069@mail.ru
8 p.m. Rally
Subject: Stop reorganization of children infection hospital #8
Organizer: Yabloko party
Venue: Luzhnetsky passage
Phone/fax: 8495-780-3019, 8903-270-2902
Zamoskvoretsky District Court to hear appeal filed by opposition activist and blogger A. Navalny against court ruling imposing fine for disobeying police orders during a May 6 rally
Roundtable
Subject: Investment infrastructure in Russia: from start-up to IPO
Venue: MICEX-RTS exchange (13, Bolshoi Kislovsky side street)
Phone: 8495-781-0202 (ext.: 2074)
3 p.m. Accreditation ends for briefing
Subject: Current foreign political affairs
Time: Noon on July 20
Speaker: Foreign Ministry’s spokesman A. Lukashevich
Venue: Foreign Ministry (32/34, Smolenskaya-Sennaya square)
Fax: 8499-244-4935
E-mail: briefingmid@rambler.ru
4 p.m. Accreditation ends for farewell ceremony of Russian national team to London Olympics
Time: 9 a.m. on July 21
Venue: Kremlin
Phone: 8495-637-0177, 8495-637-0066, 8495-725-4576
E-mail: smirnova@roc.ru
Journalists gather at 8.30 a.m. at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier
In Russia and worldwide:
Krasnogorsk (Moscow region),
11 a.m. Signing ceremony
Subject: Interaction agreement between Audit Chamber and Moscow region
Participants: Moscow region governor S. Shoigu, Audit Chamber chairman S. Stepashin
Phone: 8498-602-1180
E-mail: gurtovaya@guipmo.ru
Ivanovo,
Press conference at Interfax
Subject: Ivanovo region environment protection strategy 2020
Yekaterinburg,
Press conference at Interfax
Subject: Innoprom 2012. Economic, business and social results of exhibition
Speaker: Sverdlovsk region governor Ye. Kuvaishev
Tyumen,
Press conference at Interfax/Tyumen Line news agency joint press center
Subject: Socio-economic indicators of regional development in H1
Chelyabinsk,
Press conference at Interfax
Subject: Situation with wildfires in Chelyabinsk region
Vladivostok,
Pacific Fleet Military Court to hold preliminary hearing into criminal case into Nerpa nuclear-powered submarine accident in 2008
Nagorny Karabakh,
Presidential election
