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Events due in Moscow, Russia, CIS and Baltic countries on Wednesday, August 8, 2012

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Bulletin is released Sunday to Friday. Issue No. 176

In Moscow:

Meeting

Participants: President V. Putin, Armenian President S. Sargsyan

10 a.m. Session of Prosecutor’s General Office board

Subject: Results of prosecutors’ offices in H1

Participants: Prosecutor General Yu. Chaika, presidential administration chief S. Ivanov, Deputy Prime Minister V. Surkov, Federation Council deputy speaker A. Torshin

Venue: Prosecutor’s General Office (14, Petrovka street)

Fax: 8495-987-5841

E-mail: ussgprf@gmail.com

11 a.m. Meeting

Subject: Work of UN Conference on Arms Trade Treaty

Venue: UN information center (4/16, Glazovsky side street)

Phone: 8499-241-2894, 8495-241-2537

E-mail: amalia@unic.ru

11 a.m. Ceremony of planting trees

Subject: 100th anniversary of Russian Air Force

Venue: Poklonnaya Gora

Phone: 8916-375-5065

E-mail: yvpole@gmail.com

Events due at RIA Novosti (4, Zubovsky boulevard, phone: 8495-645-6472, accreditation@rian.ru):

11 a.m. Press conference

Subject: Results of meeting of state commission preparing celebration of 200th anniversary of Battle of Borodino in 1812

Speaker: Deputy Culture Minister A. Busygin

1 p.m. Roundtable

Subject: Draft of Russian Public Initiative prepared by Open Government experts

Participants: Experts

1 p.m. Moscow – Kyiv – Astana video link-up

Subject: food security. Forecast, risks, expectations

Participants: Russian Grain Union president A. Zlochevsky, Ukrainian Grain Association president V. Klimenko, Kazakh Grain Union president N. Tleubayev

Noon Press conference

Subject: Russia’s Tricolor TV is world’s top 3 satellite TV operator in term of number of subscribers

Speaker: National Satellite Company general director A. Makarov and others

Venue: Interfax (2, Pervaya Tverskaya-Yamskaya street)

Phone: 8499-250-8832

Noon Press conference

Subject: Start of Moscow-Paris horse campaign in honor of 200th anniversary of Patriotic War of 1812

Speakers: Federal Customs Service chief A. Belyanov and others

Venue: Itar-Tass (4, Tverskoi boulevard)

Phone: 8495-629-6403, 8495-692-1522

Noon Press conference

Subject: Peculiarities of state regional control over real estate in Moscow in 2012

Speaker: Moscow state housing inspection chief V. Zheglov

Venue: Moscow City government (36/9, Novy Arbat street)

Phone: 8495-925-0090

E-mail: press@icmos.ru

2 p.m. Presentation

Subject: Project by Committee of Civil Rights named ‘Volunteers conducting public monitoring at prisons’

Participants: Human rights activists A. Babushkin, V. Borshchyov, and others

Venue: Independent Press Center (17/9, Prechistenka street)

Phone: 8495-232-2891, 8495-637-3126

E-mail: yakovlevapress@yandex.ru, yakovleva@infolegal.ru

7 p.m. Rally

Subject: Preservation of Izmailovo park

Organizer: Yabloko party

Participant: Yabloko party leader S. Mitrokhin

Phone: 8495-780-3019, 8903-270-2902

Tverskoi Court to declare verdict in criminal case into 2010 riots on Manezh Square

In Russia and worldwide:

Velsk,

Velsk District Court to announce decision on ex-Menatep head P. Lebedev lawyer’s appeal to reduce sentence for the defendant

Rostov-on-Don,

Press conference at Interfax

Subject: Violations of passenger transportation rules by bus drivers, fights against street racers

Penza,

Press conference at Interfax

Subject: Investments and growth of Penza region industrial potential

Tyumen,

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

Subject: Electronic services in social sphere

Tomsk,

Press conference at Interfax

Subject: Emergency situation at agriculture districts of Tomsk region

Online broadcast at http://www.tomline.ru

Novosibirsk,

Press conference at Interfax

Subject: Results of university admission campaign 2012

Irkutsk,

Press conference at Interfax

Subject: 23rd futsal tournament in honor of legendary Irkutsk journalist Lev Perminov

North Ossetia,

Commemoration of victims of South Ossetian-Georgian conflict of August 2008

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