INTERFAX-ANNOUNCEMENTS-THURSDAY
Bulletin is released Sunday to Friday. Issue No. 113
In Moscow:
Events due at State Duma (1, Okhonty Ryad street):
10 a.m. State Duma Council session
11 a.m. Roundtable
Subject: Problems of small and mid-size business
Organizer: A Just Russia
Phone: 8495-692-4634, 8916-413-4008
E-mail: sophiano@mail.ru
2 p.m. Roundtable
Subject: Draft bill of federal contract system
Phone: 8495-692-6755
4 p.m. Roundtable
Subject: Improving laws on industrial safety at dangerous facilities
Phone: 8495-692-2397, 8909-915-8185
9 a.m. Liturgy/sacred procession
Subject: Day of Slavic Literature and Culture
Participants: Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and all-Russia, Archbishop Ieronymos II of Athens
Venue: Kremlin’s Annunciation Cathedral/Vasilevsky Spusk
Journalists enter at 9 a.m. through Kutafya Tower
10 a.m. Wreath laying ceremony
Subject: Day of Slavic Literature and Culture
Participants: Ambassadors of Belarus, Bulgaria, Bosnia, Croatia, Czech Republic, Greece, Macedonia, Montenegro, Poland, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Ukraine
Venue: Monument to St. Cyril and Methodius (Slavyanskaya square)
Phone/fax: 8495-788-6509, 8495-788-1466
E-mail: burtseva@mos-partya.ru
10 a.m. Press conference
Subject: Innovations in countering doping in sports
Speakers: Sports and Tourism Ministry’s officials and others
Venue: VVTs (Pavilion 5)
Phone: 8909-990-5209
E-mail: apustova@znopr.ru
Events due at RIA Novosti (4, Zubovsky boulevard, phone: 8495-637-5019, 8495-645-6472):
10 a.m. Press conference
Subject: Moscow beach volley Grand Slam
Speaker: Russian Beach Volley Federation president A. Yaremenko and others
12.30 p.m. Moscow – St. Petersburg video link-up
Subject: Prospects for Russian-U.S. anti-drug cooperation
Participants: FSKN chief V. Ivanov, U.S. Office of National Drug Control Policy Director J. Kerlikowski
Phone: 8495-983-5372, 88495-983-5371, 8495-983-5360
1 p.m. Press conference
Subject: Extended summit of ISAF in Chicago on May 21
Speaker: Foreign Ministry’s Second Asian Department chief Z. Kabulov\
1 p.m. Roundtable
Subject: International Missing Children’s Day on May 25
Participants: Children rights activists
2 p.m. Roundtable
Subject: Authorities and public after elections. Start of new political cycle
Participants: Ex-Finance Minister A. Kudrin, Strategic Developments Center president M. Dmitriyev
2 p.m. Moscow – St. Petersburg – Krasnoyarsk video link-up
Subject: United Russia in new political conditions
Speakers: Political analysts
5 p.m. Moscow – Washington video link-up
Subject: Public order at mass actions. How do policemen act in various countries?
Participants: MPs, experts
7.30 p.m. Meeting
Subject: Criminal policy: yesterday, today, tomorrow
Organizer: Association of Russian Lawyers
Participants: State Duma constitutional legislation committee chairman V. Pligin, State Duma security committee deputy chairman A. Khinshtein and others\
11 a.m. Roundtable
Subject: Implementation and development prospects of anti-corruption laws
Participants: State Duma speaker S. Naryshkin, Prosecutor General Yu. Chaika, and others
Venue: Prosecutor’s General Office (14/1, Petrovka street)
Phone: 8495-692-9374, 8903-266-2107
Events due at AiF press center (42, Myasnitskaya street, phone: 8495-625-2148, 8495-623-9432):
11 a.m. Press conference
Subject: Moscow 2012-2020. What tasks does Moscow face?
Speaker: Moscow Union of Architects president N. Shumakov
1 p.m. Press conference
Subject: New single state exam campaign. Will there be surprises?
Speakers: Rectors
Noon Roundtable
Subject: State support of socially important printed media and libraries
Organizer: Federation Council education and science committee
Venue: Solzhenitsyn house (2, Nizhnyaya Radishchevskaya street)
Phone: 8495-692-1270, 8495-692-4145, 8495-692-7525
Fax: 8495-692-4305
Noon Press conference
Subject: Creation of Civil Initiative of Moscow Deputies public organization
Participants: Local deputies
Venue: Komsomolskaya Pravda publishing house (1/23, Stary Petrovsko-Razumovsky passage)
Phone: 8495-786-6788, 8495-665-7531, 637-6482
Noon Press conference
Subject: Public control against violations at retail chains
Speakers: Russian Consumers’ Union official A. Koryagin and others
Venue: 39 Kutuzovsky Avenue
Phone: 8909-628-2991, 8916-500-7836
E-mail: hrushi.protiv@gmail.com
Noon Opening ceremony
Subject: Exremex festival of extreme kinds of sports
Venue: Sokolniki park
Phone: 8495-268-5455, 8926-188-8810
2 p.m. Press conference
Subject: Why do ‘undesirable’ journalists and sensation materials disappear from NTV?
Speaker: TV and Radio National Research Institute director A. Samokhvalov
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: International Muslim Magomayev singing competition in Moscow on October 20-21
Speakers: Magomayev Foundation president T. Sinyavskaya and others
Venue: Itar-Tass (2, Tverskoi boulevard)
Phone: 8495-629-6034, 8499-791-0314
3 p.m. Briefing
Subject: Current foreign political affairs
Speaker: Foreign Ministry’s spokesman A. Lukashevich
Venue: Foreign Ministry (32/34, Smolenskaya-Sennaya square)
4 p.m. Rally
Subject: 107th anniversary of M. Sholokhov
Venue: M. Sholokhov monument (intersection of Volgogradsky avenue and Volzhsky boulevard)
Phone: 8910-472-7185
7 p.m. Awarding ceremony
Subject: Achievements in modern Russian poetry
Venue: Polytechnic Museum (3/4, Novaya square)
Phone: 8495-699-5283
7 p.m. Concert
Subject: 20th anniversary of establishing Russian-Slovenian diplomatic relations
Participants: Slovenia Ambassador to Russia A. Filip-Slivnik, Chamber of Commerce and Industry president A. Zakharov
Venue: Chaikovsky concert hall (4/31, Triumfalnaya square)
Phone: 8495-620-0290, 8495-620-0365, 8495-620-0186, 8495-620-0081
E-mail: lit@tpprf.tu
7 p.m. Presentation
Subject: Book from Political Animal series
Participants: Writer A. Kokh, Democratic Union party founder V. Novodvorskaya
Venue: Biblio-Globus (6/3, Myasnitskaya street)
Phone: 8495-788-0075, 8495-788-0076 (ext.: 1106), 8903-714-9367
May 24-25: Awarding ceremony
Subject: 2011 TEFI national TV prize in Professions nomination
May 24-30: Beat Film Festival
Venue: Gorizont movie theater (21/10, Komsomolsky avenue)
Phone: 8903-779-6193
May 24-27: Exhibition/sale
Subject: Fotomixfight Limited Edition
Venue: Classic Photography Gallery (23, Savvinskaya embankment)
Phone: 8926-542-3353
Е-mail: gkf.press@gmail.com
2 p.m. Accreditation ends to visit to Mozhaisk penal colony for minors
Journalists gather at 8 a.m. on May 25
Venue: 19, rustaveli street
Phone: 8499-799-3272, 8495-982-1992
3 p.m. Accreditation ends for meeting of Russian-Syrian permanent commission for trade, economic, scientific and cultural cooperation
Time: 10.30 a.m. on May 25
Participants: Deputy Prime Minister A. Khloponin, Syrian Finance Minister M. al-Julaylati
Venue: Government reception house (16, Vozdvizhenka street)
Phone: 8985-763-1864
4 p.m. Accreditation ends to children festival
Title: Visiting patriarch
Time: 5 p.m. on May 25
Participant: Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and all-Russia
Phone: 8499-578-0349
E-mail: accredit@patriarchia.ru
In Russia and worldwide:
St. Petersburg,
Meeting of Russian-U.S. anti-drug groups which is part of bilateral presidential commission
Yaroslavl,
Press conference at Interfax
Subject: New approaches to providing state services
Volgograd,
Press conference at Interfax
Subject: Preparations for single state exam in Volgograd
Krasnodar,
Press conference at Interfax
Subject: Launch of Team Russia Ochakovo Drive project in Krasnodar territory
Rostov-on-Don,
Press conferences at Interfax
Subject: Preparations for 2018 soccer world cup
Subject: modernization of general education in Rostov region
Online broadcast at www.rostovtv.ru
Yekaterinburg,
First conference of Russian radio executives
Subject: Future of regional radio
Organizers: Radio Academy, Federal Agency for Press and Mass Communications
Irkutsk,
Press conference at Interfax
Subject: Results of 44th session of Irkutsk region parliament
Novosibirsk,
Press conference at Interfax
Subject: Stated of summer passenger traffic at West Siberia Railroad
Tomsk,
Press conference at Interfax
Subject: Changes to fishing rules
Kemerovo,
Press conference at Interfax
Subject: Measures to improve fish protection activity in Kemerovo region
Online broadcast www.regit.ru/videoconf
Kyiv (Ukraine),
10 a.m. Press conference at Interfax
Subject: System of bureau of credit histories in Ukraine
Baku (Azerbaijan),
Eurovision contest second semi-final
