INTERFAX-ANNOUNCEMENTS-THURSDAY
Bulletin is released Sunday to Friday. Issue No. 130
In Moscow:
Government session
Subject: FAS report on competition and improvement of business climate in Russia
Events due at Federation Council (26, Bolshaya Dmitrovka street, phone: 8495-692-1877, 8495-692-5604, 8495-692-7525, fax: 8495-692-4305):
11 a.m. Meeting of Federation Council’s cultural policy council
Subject: Cultural map of Russian regions. Regional disproportion and solutions
Participants: Federation Council speaker V. Matviyenko
Noon. Expanded meeting of the defense and security committee
Subject: Application of laws of monetary allowances for military officers, law enforcers
Events due at State Duma (1, Okhotny Ryad street):
11 a.m. Meeting of State Duma’s cultural policy council
Participants: State Duma speaker S. Naryshkin, State Duma deputies speaker A. Zhukov, L. Shvetsova, Culture Minster V. Medinsky
Phone: 8495-692-2739
E-mail: vinograd@duma.gov.ru
Noon Roundtable
Subject: Social consequences of Russia’s accession to WTO
Organizer: A Just Russia party
Participants: State Duma economic policy committee deputy head M. Yemelyanov, State Duma deputy speaker N. Levichev
Phone: 8985-766-5348
10 a.m. Roundtable
Subject: Development of local self-government in Moscow
Organizers: Department of Moscow executive territorial bodies and association ‘Council of Municipalities of Moscow’
Participants: Moscow city administration secretariat deputy head A. Starovoitov and others
Venue: Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration (84, Vernadskogo avenue)
Phone: 8909-168-9449
E-mail: polina_orehova@mail.ru
10 a.m. Conference
Subject: Social lifts for creative youths. Best Russian experience
Organizers: AFK Sistema, Moscow State University, Vedomosti newspaper
Venue: Swissotel Krasny Kholmy (52/6, kosmodanianskaya embankment)
Phone: 8910-401-1913
E-mail: braslavskaya@bf.sistema.ru
11 a.m. Press conference
Subject: Countering illegal trafficking of drugs among youths
Speakers: High-ranking police officials
Venue: Moscow department of Interior Ministry (19/4, Petrovka street)
Phone: 8495-694-9201, 694-9898
11 a.m. Press conference
Subject: Crisis Syrian crisis. Political situation, ways to resolve crisis
Speaker: Syrian Ambassador to Russia R. M. Hadad
Venue: Komsomolskaya Pravda (1/23, Stary Petrovsko-Razumovsky passage)
Phone: 8495-786-67788, 8495-7531, 8495-637-6482
11 a.m. Press conference
Subject: Moscow’s social policy. Reality and prospects
Speaker: Moscow deputy mayor L. Pechatnikov
Venue: Interfax (2, Pervaya Tverskaya-Yamskaya street)
Phone: 8499-250-8832
Events due at RIA Novosti (4, Zubovsky boulevard, phone: 8495-637-5019, 8495-645-6472):
11 a.m. Press conference
Subject: Problems of children safety in roads
Speakers: Deputy Transport Minister N. Asaul, doctors
1 p.m. Press conference
Subject: World Blood Donor Day
Speaker: Federal Medical and Biological Agency chief V. Uiba
1 p.m. Roundtable
Subject: Internet media. Problems, solution and development prospects
Participants: Russia Today editor-in-chief M. Simonyan, Slon.ru editor-in-chief A. Goryanov and others
3 p.m. Roundtable
Subject: March of Millions. Assessments and commentaries
Participants: MPs, political analysts
3 p.m. Press conference
Subject: Kremlin Cup pentathlon championship due on June 16-17
Speaker: Russian Pentathlon Federation president V. Aminov and others
Phone: 8495-695-8864
E-mail: press@dszm.ru
5 p.m. Moscow – Washington video link-up
Subject: Russian-U.S. relations under influence of international problems
Participants: Political analysts, experts
Events due at Public Chamber (7/1, Miusskaya square, phone: 8495-221-8361):
Noon Public hearings
Subject: Working conditions for air dispatchers, air transport safety
Participants: Public Chamber members
2 p.m. Public hearings
Subject: Problems of preserving Russia’s archeological legacy
Participants: Public Chamber members
1 p.m. Action
Subject: Youths against drugs
Participants: Russia’s chief drug addiction doctor Ye. Bryun
Venue: 17, Ferganskaya street
Phone: 8926-387-9445, 8495-700-9525, 8495-700-9547
2 p.m. Press conference
Organizer: the Russian Jewish Congress
Subject: Opening of Red Army Victory Memorial in Israel.
Participants: Russian Jewish Congress President Yu. Kanner, Executive Director B. Briskin, architect S. Shcherbakov, and others.
Venue: Itar-Tass (2, Tverskoi boulevard)
Phone: 8495-629-6403, 8495-692-1522
3 p.m. Roundtable
Subject: Prospects, strategy and tactics of social-democrats in new political conditions
Participants: Yabloko party leaders G. Yavlinsky, A. Golov, A Just Russia member I. Ponomaryov and others
Venue: Yabloko party headquarters (31/2, Pyatnitskaya street)
Phone: 8495-780-3019, 8903-270-2902
4 p.m. Party
Subject: 200th anniversary of Russian writer I. Goncharov’s birthday
Participants: Russian Culture Fund president N. Mikhalkov and others
Venue: Solzhenitsyn House (2, Radishchevskaya street)
Phone: 8495-739-2065
7 p.m. Exhibition
Subject: 2012 Pirelli Calendar by Mario Sorrenti
Venue: Multimedia Art Museum (16, Ostozhenka street)
Phone: 8495-937-3131, 8495-988-7806, 8495-637-1155 (ext.: 202)
Moscow’s Nagatinsky Court to hear civil suit on car crash involving presidential representative at State Duma G. Minkh
Moscow’s Ninth Appeals Court of Arbitration to hear appeals on a court ruling invalidating auction on sale of land plot larger part of which is located within protected area belonging to Arkhangelskoye Estate in Moscow region
June 14-20. ‘Alternative Movie’ film festival
Venue: Cinema Park chain of movie theaters
Phone: 8499-254-1204, 8905-751-2806
Noon Accreditation ends for talks
Participants: EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy C. Ashton, Iranian Supreme National Security Council Secretary S. Jalili, political directors of ‘sextet’ of mediators
Date: June 18-19
Venue: Moscow
Phone: 8499-244-1766
E-mail: mfamedia@rambler.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 Russia and worldwide:
Dmitrov district (Moscow region),
2 p.m. Action
Subject: Prevention of children’s injuries in traffic incidents
Participants: Traffic policemen
Phone: 8499-763-1514, 8967-102-0854
Ivanovo,
Press conferences at Interfax
Subject: Russian fashion festival ‘Plyos on Volga. Linen diversity’
Subject: ‘Anti-Fabrika’ rock-festival
Nizhny Novgorod,
Press conference at Interfax
Subject: Growth of public utility services tariffs in Nizhny Novgorod in H2 of 2012
Yekaterinburg,
Press conference at Interfax
Subject: Urals State University admits students in 2012
Online broadcast http://213.242.250.20
Tyumen,
Press conference at Interfax/Tyumen Line news agency joint press center
Subject: Modernization of professional education in Tyumen region
Irkutsk,
Press conference at Interfax
Subject: Successful performance of Irkutsk athletes at European junior power-lifting championship
Khabarovsk,
Press conference at Interfax
Subject: Pilot project aimed at changing system of paying social insurance to working people in Khabarovsk territory starting on July 1, 2012
Kyiv (Ukraine),
Press conference at Interfax
Subject: Blood donation in Ukraine
Tajikistan,
End of Peace Mission 2012 anti-terrorist drills
Bishkek (Kyrgyzstan),
June 14-15: Third plenary session of parliamentary assembly of Turk-speaking states
Kabul (Afghanistan),
Visit by Foreign Minister S. Lavrov
