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Events due in Moscow, Russia, CIS and Baltic countries on Wednesday, July 17, 2012

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Bulletin is released Sunday to Friday. Issue No. 157

In Moscow:

State Council session

Agenda: Regional authorities’ goals to ensure sustainable economic growth and higher living standards

Participant: President V. Putin

Venue: Kremlin

Meeting

Participants: President V. Putin, UN/LAS envoy K. Annan

11 a.m. Diploma awarding ceremony

Subject: Graduates of Moscow State University of Economics, Statistics and Informatics (MESI)

Participant: Federation Council first deputy chairman A. Torshin

Venue: Federation Council (26, Bolshaya Dmitrovka street)

Phone: 8495-692-75-25, 8495-692-56-04, 8495-692-1877

Fax: 8495-692-43-05

Events due at RIA Novosti (4, Zubovsky boulevard, phone: 8495-645-6472):

11 a.m. Press conference

Subject: Completion of first voyage of Sailing University project

Speaker: Russian Geographic Society office in Arkhangelsk head L. Vasilyev

3 p.m. Press conference

Subject: Krymsk tragedy. First lessons and conclusions

Speakers: Senators V. Tyulpanov, Yu. Kalinin

3 p.m. Press conference

Subject: Kindergartens in Moscow region. Will there be queues?

Speaker: Moscow region education minister L. Antonova

Phone: 8926-219-7979, 8906-716-9627

11 a.m. General meeting of participants of UN Global Compact in Russia

Agenda: Results of UN conference on sustainable development Rio +20 and Corporate Sustainability Forum

Venue: Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs (17, Kotelnicheskaya embankment)

Phone: 8495-787-2199

E-mail: ungcrussia@undp.org

11 a.m. Meeting

Agenda: Security at soccer matches

Participants: Russian Football Union, Interior Ministry officials

Venue: Luzhniki stadium (24, Luzhniki street)

Phone: 8495-926-1313

3.30 p.m. Press conference

11 a.m. Press conference

Subject: H1 results of Moscow department of Federal Drug Control Service (FSKN)

Speaker: FSKN department in Moscow chief V. Davydov

Venue: FSKN department in Moscow (19, Azovskaya street)

Phone: 8926-007-4749

Noon Rally

Subject: Violation of human rights in Finland

Organizer: Young Guards

Venue: Finnish embassy to Russia (16/17, Kropotkinsky side street)

Phone: 8903-597-6046

2 p.m. Accreditation ends for closing session of Federation Council spring session

Participant: Federation Council speaker V. Matviyenko

Time: 10 a.m. on July 18

Venue: Federation Council (26, Bolshaya Dmitrovka street)

Phone: 8495-692-1877, 8495-692-4145, 8495-692-5604

Fax: 8495-692-4305, 8495-623-3810

6 p.m. Accreditation ends for press conference

Subject: Results of Federation Council spring session

Time: 1 p.m. on July 18

Speaker: Federation Council speaker V. Matviyenko

Venue: Federation Council (26, Bolshaya Dmitrovka street)

Phone: 8495-692-1877, 8495-692-7525, 8495-692-5604

Fax: 8495-692-4305

In Russia and worldwide:

Korolyov (Moscow region),

8.52 a.m. Online broadcast of Soyuz TMA-05M docking to ISS

Participants: Roscosmos chief V. Popovkin, Energia corporation chief V. Lopota

Baikal Lake,

‘Engineers of Future 2012′ youth industrial forum

Tyumen,

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

Subject: Results of regional court in H1

Tomsk,

Press conference at Interfax

Subject: Avantgard bank results in H1

Kemerovo,

Press conferences at Interfax

Subject: Social orphanage and measures to support orphan asylums

Subject: Preparedness of emergency situations agencies of Kemerovo region for emergencies

Subject: Implementation of IT in Kemerovo region. NVisionGroup projects

Novosibirsk,

Press conference at Interfax

Subject: H1 results in industrial sector of Novosibirsk region

Ukraine,

195th birthday anniversary of painter I. Aivazovsky

Kyiv (Ukraine),

Pechersky District Court to continue hearing case against ex-interior minister Yu. Lutsenko over illegal deal with SBU ex-first deputy chief’ former driver D. Davydenko

Press conference at Interfax

Subject: Mail services for business: situation in Ukraine

Minsk (Belarus),

Session of Council of CIS members states envoys to organization’s agencies

July 17-18: Session of expert group drafting agreement on pensions for prosecution workers and their families and the state insurance for CIS prosecution workers

Africa,

Visit by presidential special envoy M. Margelov

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