INTERFAX-ANNOUNCEMENTS-THURSDAY
Bulletin is released Sunday to Friday. Issue No. 119
In Moscow:
Events due at Federation Council (26, Bolshaya Dmitrovka street, phone: 8495-692-1877, 8495-692-5604, 8495-692-7525, fax: 8495-692-4305):
1 a.m. Roundtable
Subject: Charity as a means of forming civil society in Russia
Organizer: Federation Council constitutional legislation committee
Participant: Federation Council deputy speaker B. Shpigel
11 a.m. Parliamentary hearings
Subject: Protection of rights, freedoms and lawful interests of children
Organizer: Federation Council social policy committee
Participant: Federation Council deputy speaker Yu. Vorobyov
11 a.m. Roundtable
Subject: Problems of efficient management of water resources in Russia
Organizer: Federation Council agriculture committee
3 p.m. Meeting
Subject: Creation of market of rights to intellectual products
Participants: Federation Council science and information policy committee deputy chairman V. Kosourov, journalists
Events due at State Duma (1, Okhotny Ryad):
10 a.m. Workshop
Subject: Development of Russia’s political system
Participants: Heads of analytical departments of regional parliaments
Phone: 8495-692-7783, 8495-692-4030
10.30 a.m. Parliamentary hearings
Subject: Legal assistance to exercising powers in educational sphere at various level
Organizer: State Duma education committee
Phone: 8495-692-9637
2 p.m. Parliamentary hearings
Subject: Russia’s interests on international energy arena. Russia’s involvement in international energy projects
Organizer: State Duma energy and international affairs committees
Phone: 8495-692-7883
2 p.m. Roundtable
Subject: Prevention of non-infectious diseases
Organizer: State Duma science committee
Phone: 8495-692-6866
9 a.m. Conference
Subject: Global capital markets and corporate governance: search for global standards
Participants: WB President R. Zoellick (via video link), State Duma deputy speaker A. Zhukov, Interros president V. Potanin, Federal Service for Financial Markets chief D. Pankin and others
Venue: Ritz Carlton (3, Tverskaya street)
Phone: 8495-941-9570
9.30 a.m. Series of pickets
Subject: Youths against smocking
Venue: Healthcare Ministry (1/11, Orlikov side street), Finance Ministry (9, Ilyinka street), Industry and Trade Ministry (7, kitaigorodsky passage)
Phone: 8967-183-3920
E-mail: press.snm@gmail.com
10 a.m. Conference
Subject: Role of the Kurd issue in international relations
Participants: Diplomats, MPs, senators
Venue: President Hotel (24, Bolshaya Yakimanka street)
Phone: 8495-518-5514
E-mail: sh-merab@mail.ru
10 a.m. Forum
Subject: Managing problem loans 2012
Participants: Supreme Arbitration Court chairman R. Bevzenko, VTB 24, Sberbank managers
Venue: Marriot Tverskaya (34, Pervaya Tverskaya-Yamskaya street)
Phone: 8495-778-7517
10 a.m. Conference
Subject: State policy in children’s interests in Moscow
Participants: Moscow family and youth affairs department chief L. Guseva, UNICEF office head B. Bainvel, Moscow children rights commissioner Ye. Bunimuvich
Venue: Moscow City government (36/9, Novy Arbat street)
Phone: 8909-663-7534
E-mail: dsmp2011@yandex.ru
Events due at RIA Novosti (14, Zubovsky boulevard, phone: 8495-637-5019, 8495-645-6472):
10 a.m. Roundtable
Subject: Influence of passive smocking on children and teenagers
Participant: World Health Organizationб USAID officials and others
10.30 a.m. Roundtable
Subject: Russian lawyers. Challenge of time
Participants: Lawyers
11 a.m. Press conference
Subject: Protection of houses during vacation period
Speakers: Policemen
Noon Press conference
Speaker: Russia’s envoy to EU V. Chizhov
3 p.m. Press conference
Subject: Upcoming day of environmentalist
Speaker: Moscow environmental department chief A. Kulbachevsky
10 a.m. First session of Federation Council’s Lawmakers Council
Participants: Federation Council speaker V. Matviyenko, State Duma speaker S. Naryshkin
Venue: Moscow Regional Duma (72, Prospekt Mira Avenue)
Phone: 8495-692-1877, 895-692-7525, 8495-692-4145
E-mail: 6921877@mail.ru
11 a.m. Meeting
Subject: How do experts view new election system?
Organizer: Civil Control association
Participant: Civil Control co-chairman A. Brod, CEC member B. Abzeyev and others
Venue: Public Chamber (7/1, Miusskaya square)
Phone: 8495-221-8361
11 a.m. Conference
Subject: What should Russia await from WTO? International experience
Participants: Experts
Venue: International foundation of socio-economic and political studies (39/14, Leningradsky avenue)
Phone: 8499-901-6146, 8926-301-4900
11 a.m. Roundtable
Subject: Children on Internet: who is responsible for them? Educational and awareness programs for children and parents, responsibility of state agencies, public and commercial companies
Participants: MPs and others
Venue: Russian State Library for Children (1, Kaluzhskaya square)
Phone: 8495-783-8355 (ext.: 4541)
E-mail: l.tushentsova@aif.ru
11 a.m. Spartakiad for orphans
Organizer: Spread Your Wings! foundation
Venue: Lokomotiv stadium (125, Bolshaya Cherkizovskaya street)
Phone: 8916-218-6138, 8916-932-5786
E-mail: pressa@detskyfond.info
Events due at 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: Education Ministry is against education. Many thousands pupils cannot afford studying
Speakers: Civil Assistance committee head S. Gannushkina and others
2 p.m. Press conference
Subject: Will new communication minister protect consumers’ interests?
Speaker: TV and Radio National Research Institute director A. Samokhvalov
Noon Press conference
Subject: Prospects for developing Israeli-Russian relations
Speaker: Israeli Ambassador to Russia D. Golender
Venue: MK press center (7, Ulitsa 1905 Goda street)
Phone/fax: 8495-781-4712
Events due at Novopushkinsky park:
Noon Action
Subject: Children must learn and develop together
Organizers: Perspektiva, Best Friends foundations
Phone: 8926-114-0409
E-mail: pr@perspektiva-inva.ru
7.30 p.m. Picket
Subject: For healthy nutrition of children at education facilities
Phone: 8962-954-2220, 8915-347-3624, 8917-588-2696
Noon Festival
Subject: International Children’s Day
Venue: Circus (7, Vernadskogo avenue)
Phone: 8916-136-8513
12.30 p.m. Press conference
Subject: Weather forecast for 2012 summer
Venue: Komsomolskaya Pravda publishing house (1/23, Stary Petrovsko-Razumovsky passage)
Phone: 8495-786-6788, 8495-665-7531, 8495-637-6482
1 p.m. Press conference
Subject: Presentation of ESPAD 2011 report in Russia
Speakers: Federal center for AIDS prevention chief V. Pokrovsky and others
Venue: Izmailovo hotel (71, Izmailovskoye avenue)
Phone: 8495-365-3009, 8495-366-0518
E-mail: federalcenter@hivrussia.net, vyshinsky@bk.ru, epid@list.ru
Events due at Vasilevsky Spusk:
1.45 p.m. Finish of Eurotour 2012 bike rally
3.30 p.m. Auto and moto parade 2012
2 p.m. Press conference
Subject: 34th Moscow International Film Festival
Speakers: MIFF program director K. Razlogov and others
Venue: Itar-Tass (2, Tverskoi boulevard)
Phone: 8495-692-1522
2 p.m. Joint session of Russian Inter-religious Council and Chinese Religion and Peace Committee
Venue: Moscow Choral Synagogue (10, Bolshoi Spasogolenishchevsky side street)
Phone: 8910-470-7448, 8926-819-9278
4 p.m. Awarding ceremony
Subject: Winner of World Chess Championship
Venue: Tretyakov Gallery (12, Lavrushinsky side street)
7 p.m. Awarding ceremony for graduates of Moscow theater and cinematographic higher-education institutions
Title: Golden Leaf
Venue: RAMT (2, Teatralnaya square)
Phone: 8906-088-1060
E-mail: evgallery@gmail.com
Basmanny District justice of the peace to hear administrative case against opposition activist S. Udaltsov over violation of the regulations for demonstrations and rallies on May 8
100th anniversary of Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts
1 p.m. Accreditation ends for festival
Subject: International Children’s Day
Time: Noon on June 1
Participant: State Duma speaker S. Naryshkin, prime minister’s spouse S. Medvedeva
Venue: Institute of children oncology and hematology (23, Kashirskoye highway)
Phone: 8910-419-5808
E-mail: art-p@mail.ru
5 p.m. Accreditation ends for awarding ceremony
Subject: Bailiffs to children
Time: 10 a.m. on June 1
Participant: Children rights commissioner P. Astakhov
Venue: Federal Bailiff Service (16/5, Kuznetsky Most street)
Phone: 8495-620-6558
Fax: 8495-620-6559
E-mail: presscenter@fssprus.ru
In Russia and worldwide:
Voronezh,
Press conference at Interfax
Subject: Prospects of developing Yelanskoye and Yekinskoye nickel fields
Yaroslavl,
Press conference
Subject: Creation of ‘Gubernatorial Assembly’ NGO
Tver region,
Offsite session of Federation Council budget and financial markets committee
Subject: Financial security for powers of Russian regional authorities and local governments
Sochi,
May 31 – June 1: Visit by delegation from Russia 2018 organizing committee and FIFA experts as part of the selection of the 2018 World Football Championship host cities
Kazan,
Ministerial meeting on food security as part of APEC forum
Tyumen,
Press conference at Interfax/Tyumen Line news agency joint press center
Subject: Organizing children vacations in Tyumen region
Tomsk,
Press conference at Interfax
Subject: Joint magister programs of Tomsk Pedagogical University and University of Hiroshima
Online broadcast at www.tomline.ru
Kyiv (Ukraine),
High Specialized Court for Civil and Criminal Case to hear appeal from Prosecutor General’s Office against its ruling to open criminal case against ex-president L. Kuchma
Ukrainian-German Legal Day
Organizer: German-Ukrainian Union of Lawyers
Information partner: Interfax
Minsk (Belarus),
Visit by Prime Minister V. Putin
May 31 – June 1: Session of CIS chief consular officers
Astana (Kazakhstan),
Congress of leaders of world and traditional religions
Chisinau (Moldova),
Session of CIS Council of security and intelligence chiefs
Brussels (Belgium),
Meeting
Subject: Russia-EU new basic agreement
Participant: Russian envoy to EU V. Chizhov
Pyongyang (North Korea),
May 31 – June 2: Visit by Deputy Finance Minister S. Storchak
