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Events due in Moscow, Russia, CIS and Baltic countries on Tuesday, August 14, 2012

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In Moscow:

10 a.m. Public hearings

Subject: Draft bill on industrial waste and recoverable resources

Venue: Public Chamber (7/1, Miusskaya square)

Phone: 8495-221-8361

11 a.m. Presentation

Subject: Risks and consequences of oil spills in Arctic region. Example of Prirazlomnaya oil rig

Participants: Greenpeace International executive director K. Naidoo, WWF Russia director I. Chestin and others

Venue: RIA Novosti (4, Zubovsky boulevard)

Phone: 8495-645-6472

E-mail: accreditation@rian.ru

Events due at Komsomolskaya Pravda Publishing House (Stary Petrovsko-Razumovsky Proyezd 1/23). Tel. 8 (495) 786-6788; 665-7531; 637-6482):

Noon. News conference

Subject: 2012 student admission campaign.

Speakers: university rectors, others.

4 p.m. News conference.

Subject: International tourism. Cultural figures’ role in promoting Russian-Chinese tourism.

Speakers: Rosturizm deputy head Ye. Pisarevsky, Chinese artists.

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: August 16 is official date of launching revolutionary referendum in Russia

Speakers: Forum of Left Forces coordination committee members A. Abramovich, A. Baranov

2 p.m. Press conference

Subject: Repression of public activist Nikolai Kavkazsky

Speakers: Nikolai Kavkazsky’s lawyer

4 p.m. Roundtable

Subject: Corporate volunteers and socially oriented businesses

Participants: Businessmen, officials

Venue: Moscow office of Delovaya Rossiya (10/2, Yauzskaya street)

Phone: 8495-682-4416, 8903-260-8210

E-mail: org10@ingener.ru

Moscow Regional Court to hold preliminary hearings into case on Domodedovo terrorist attack on January 24, 2011

Moscow’s Zamoskvoretsky Court to pronounce verdict in criminal case against wrester R.Mirzayev who killed 19 year-old Muscovite I.Agafonov

In Russia and worldwide:

Rostov-on-Don,

Press conference at Interfax

Subject: Results of Rostov region athletes at London Olympics

Penza,

Press conference at Interfax

Subject: Athletes of Olympic level can be trained in Penza region

Tomsk,

Press conference at Interfax

Subject: Systems of treating waste in Tomsk region

Tyumen,

Press conference at Interfax/Tyumen Line news agency joint press center

Subject: Expedition to explore Russia’s northern territories ‘Following Bering’

Belarus,

August 14-15: Visit by Foreign Minister S. Lavrov

Sevastopol (Ukraine),

Visit by Ukrainian President V. Yanukovych

Kharkiv (Ukraine),

Kyivsky District Court to hear second criminal case against ex-Ukrainian Prime Minister Yu. Tymoshenko

Kyiv (Ukraine),

Court of Appeals to hear appeal from ex-acting Ukrainian Defense Minister V. Ivashechenko

Odesa (Ukraine),

Court of Appeals to hear extradition case of A.Osmayev, suspectof in the criminal case into President Vladimir Putin’s attempted assassination

Astana (Kazakhstan),

Roundtable

Subject: Draft sixth and seventh report on Kazakhstan’s implementation of nternational Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination

Almaty (Kazakhstan),

Press conference at Interfax

Subject: Results of Resmi Group in H1

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