INTERFAX-ANNOUNCEMENTS-WEDNESDAY
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This is issue No. 24
WEDNESDAY, June 13, 2012
Russian Foreign Minister S. Lavrov is due to visit Iran to discuss the situation in Syria and preparations for talks between the Group of Six world powers and Tehran on the Iranian nuclear program.
In Moscow:
3 p.m. Ceremony
Subject: Transfer of Asian Pacific parliamentary flag to Russia
Participant: Federation Council speaker V. Matviyenko
Venue: Federation Council (26, Bolshaya Dmitrovka street)
Phone: 8495-692-1877, 8495-692-5604, 8495-692-7525
Fax: 8495-692-4305
E-mail: 6921788@mail.ru
10 a.m. Press conference
Speakers: Nobel prize winner doctor B. Marshall, Healthcare Minister V. Skvortsova
Venue: Sechenov Medical University (8, Trubetskaya street)
Phone: 8495-708-3668, 8495-609-1400 (ext.: 2103, 1009), 8965-165-0916, 8965-165-5529
E-mail: pr@mma.ru
11 a.m. Public hearings
Subject: Peculiarities of applying anti-extremist laws to holy texts of religious organizations
Participants: Public Chamber members
Venue: Public Chamber (7/1, Miusskaya square)
Phone: 8495-221-8361, 8916-106-6602
11 a.m. Press conference
Subject: Moscow school leavers 2012
Speakers: Deputy Moscow mayor L. Pechatnikov
Venue: Itar-Tass (4, Tverskoi boulevard)
Phone: 8495-629-6403, 8495-692-1522, 8495-629-6034
E-mail: press@itar-tass.com
3 p.m. Session.
Agenda: the results of checks of political parties’ financial reports for 2011.
Venue: Central Election Commission (9, Bolshoi Cherkassy side-street).
Press briefing by Central Election Commission Secretary N. Konkin.
Phone: 606-13-25; 625-07-89.
3 p.m. Roundtable
Subject: Political attempts to rehabilitate fascists in Baltic states as justification of revising WW II results
Participants: World Without Fascism human rights movement B. Shpigel, World Without Nazism movement D. Linter and others
Venue: RIA Novosti (4, Zubovsky boulevard)
Phone: 8495-637-5019, 8495-645-6472
4 p.m. Press conference
Subject: Results of annual consultations of IMF experts with Russian authorities
Speakers: IMF European Department Advisor A. Spilimbergo, IMF Senior Resident Representative in Russia O. Per Brekk, IMF European Department official D. Hofman, IMF Executive Director for Russia A. Mozhin, and IMF Senior External Relations Officer O. Stankova.
Venue: Interfax (2, Pervaya Tverskaya-Yamskaya street)
Phone: 8499-250-8832
The 9th Arbitration Court is due to continue hearing complaints contesting the Moscow Arbitration Court’s ruling, which invalidated the Russian Defense Ministry’s decree on the sale of a land plot in the village of Arkhangelskoye.
The Basmanny Court is due to hand down its ruling on a lawsuit filed by erudite, journalist and political pundit Anatoly Wasserman against the Mary Jane company, which illegally used portraits depicting him on its T-shirts signed “Onotole”.
11 a.m. Video conference.
Subject: removal of solid domestic waste and the condition of training ranges.
The video conference will be supervised by Moscow Region Deputy Governor R. Tsalikov.
Venue: Moscow Region Government House (Krasnogorsk, Moscow region).
Phone: 8 (498) 602-12-29; 8-916-380-34-16; 8-916-578-63-00.
Accreditation ends at 4 p.m.
Noon Accreditation ends for meeting of State Duma’s cultural policy council
Time: 11 a.m. on June 14
Participants: State Duma speaker S. Naryshkin, State Duma deputies speaker A. Zhukov, L. Shvetsova, Culture Minster V. Medinsky
Venue: State Duma (1, Okhotny Ryad street)
Phone: 8495-692-2739
E-mail: vinograd@duma.gov.ru
3 p.m. Accreditation ends for roundtable
Subject: Social consequences of Russia’s accession to WTO
Time: Noon on June 14
Organizer: A Just Russia party
Participants: State Duma economic policy committee deputy head M. Yemelyanov, State Duma deputy speaker N. Levichev
Venue: State Duma (1, Okhotny Ryad street)
Phone: 8985-766-5348
5 p.m. Accreditation ends for meeting of Federation Council’s cultural policy council
Subject: Cultural map of Russian regions. Regional disproportion and solutions
Time: 11 a.m. on June 14
Participants: Federation Council speaker V. Matviyenko
Venue: Federation Council (26, Bolshaya Dmitrovka street)
Phone: 8495-692-1877, 8495-692-5604, 8495-692-7525
Fax: 8495-692-4305
Noon. Accreditation ends for the first session of the State Duma speaker’s Culture Council.
Time: 11 a.m.
Participants: State Duma Speaker S. Naryshkin, his deputies A. Zhukov and L. Shvetsova, Russian Culture Minister V. Medinsky.
Venue: State Duma (1, Okhotny Ryad street).
Phone: 692-27-39; e-mail: vinograd@duma.gov.ru.
5 p.m. Accreditation ends for a roundtable.
Subject: Development of Moscow’s local self- governance.
Time: 10 a.m. June 14.
Participants: high-ranking City Hall, State Duma officials.
Venue: Russian Presidential Academy of Economics and Civil Service (84, Vernadsky Avenue).
Phone: 8-909-168-94-49; e-mail: polina_orehova@mail.ru.
Accreditation ends for a concert by musicians B. Mcferrin and Ch. Corea.
Time: 7 p.m. June 15.
Venue: Chaikovsky Concert Hall (4/31,Triumfalnaya Square).
Phone: -903-586-48-43; e-mail: asa.79@mail.ru; pr@musicalolympus.ru.
*** Journalists may obtain accreditation to a planned summit in Vladivostok, Russia, on September 2-9 of Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation, The APEC-2012 Leaders’ Week, by filling an online application on the website of Russia’s chairmanship of the event, www.apec2012.ru, the Russian presidential press service said.
Accreditation applications will be accepted until July 4.
In Russia and worldwide:
All Russian school graduates to sit the Unified State Exam in natural science and physics.
Troitsk (Moscow region),
9 a.m. Meeting of CIS migration agencies chiefs
Subject: Russia’s FMS turns 20
Phone: 8985-776-2307
10 a.m. Meeting of CSTO coordination council for countering illegal migration
Participant: FMS chief K. Romodanovsky
Journalists gather at 7.30 a.m.
Venue: FMS (4, Boyarsky side street)
Rostov-on-Don,
Press conference at Interfax
Subject: Rostov region turns 75. Main events of the year
St. Petersburg,
Press conference at Interfax
Subject: ‘Associations’ project at Tsarskoye Selo museum
Samara,
Press conference at Interfax
Subject: Cause and essence of the conflict over ZAO Niva’s land plots within Togliatti’s boundaries. The stance of ZAO Niva representatives. Solutions.
Kyiv (Ukraine),
Pechersky District Court to hear case against ex-Ukrainian Interior Minister Yu. Lutsenko as part of investigating poisoning of ex-Ukrainian President V. Yushchenko
Baku (Azerbaijan),
June 13-14: Visit by OSCE Chairman-in-Office E. Gilmor
Minsk (Belarus),
June 13-14: Expert session on a draft action plan for the Year of Environmental Culture and Environmental Protection.
The European Court of Human Rights to hear a Georgia vs. Russia lawsuit claiming possible violence against Georgian immigrants in Russia following the arrest of four Russian officers accused of espionage against Georgia on September 27, 2006.
Brussels,
Official visit by Serbia’s new President T. Nikolic. Talks with NATO officials on solutions to problems facing Kosovo and Metohija.
Latvia,
State visit by Lithuanian President D. Grybaustaite.
