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Events due in Moscow, Russia, CIS and Baltic countries on Wednesday, June 20, 2012

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Bulletin is released Sunday to Friday. Issue No. 135

In Moscow:

June 20-22: Visit by Finnish President S. Niinisto

Events due at State Duma (1, Okhotny Ryad street):

10 a.m. Plenary session

Subject: First reading of bill on federal contract system, CB report for 2011

11 a.m. Meeting of expert council on advertising

Participants: MPs, officials

Phone: 8495-911-5301 (ext.: 115), 8903-239-3514

E-mail: xludencova@yandex.ru

2 p.m. Workshop

Subject: Role of property in building efficient and socially responsible business. Analysis of Russian and German models

Phone: 8495-982-2774, 8495-692-5558

Fax: 8495-692-6280

E-mail: frolov@duma.gov.ru

10 a.m. Meeting of State Anti-drug Committee

Participant: FSKN chief V. Ivanov

Phone: 8495-983-5372, 8495-983-5360

Events due at RIA Novosti (4m Zubovsky boulevard, phone: 8495-637-5019, 8495-645-6472):

10 a.m. Press conference

Subject: 36th session of UNESCO World Heritage Committee

Speakers: UNESCO World Heritage Committee head E. Mitrofanova, Deputy Culture Minister A. Busygin and others

11 a.m. Moscow – Minsk – Kyiv video link-up

Subject: Great Patriotic War. New documents

Participants: Historians, scientists, experts

11 a.m. Press conference

Subject: Children on vacations. How to protect children at summer camps?

Speaker: Emergency Situations Ministry, Education and Science Ministry officials

3 p.m. Roundtable

Subject: Results of meeting between Iran and P5+1 in Moscow

Participants: Modern Iranian Studies Institute director R. Safarov, Russian Islamic Committee chairman G. Jamal and others

4 p.m. Press conference

Subject: Art against war. Launch of ‘Theater of anti-military operations’ project

Speakers: Artists

11 a.m. Press conference

Subject: Setting world record by female skydivers in big formations class

Speakers: DOSAAF chairman S. Mayev and others

Venue: Itar-Tass (2, Tverskoi boulevard)

Phone: 8495-629-6034, 8495-692-1522

11 a.m. Roundtable

Subject: retail loans in Russia. Risks for banks and consumers in 2012

Participants: National Microfinancing Market Player Partnership president M. Mamut, Association of Regional Banks president A. Aksakov

Venue: AiF press center (42, Myasnitskaya street)

Phone: 8495-625-2148, 8495-623-9432

Events due at Eurasian Economic Commission (3/5, Smolensky boulevard, phone: 8903-520-8985, e-mail: zhadanes@gmail.com):

11.45 a.m. Debates

Subject: Eurasian economic integration: way to new global economy

Participants: Eurasian Economic Commission board chairman V. Khristenko and others

4 p.m. Meeting of Eurasian Economic Commission Council

Subject: Work of Eurasian Economic Commission, introduction of ERA-Glonass in Customs Union, trade interaction with New Zealand and Vietnam

Participants: Deputy Prime Minister I. Shuvalov, Deputy Belarusian Prime Minister S. Rumas, Deputy Kazakh Prime Minister K. Kelimbetov, Eurasian Economic Commission board chairman V. Khristenko and others

Noon Press conference

Subject: Situation on burial market in Moscow

Speaker: Moscow trade and services department chief A. Nemeryuk

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

Phone: 8499-250-8832

Noon Press conference

Subject: Investment attractiveness of city property. Selling land plots in H1 of 2012

Speaker: Deputy Moscow land affairs department chief I. Tkachev and others

Venue: Russian Union of Journalists (8a, Nikitsky boulevard)

Phone: 8495-691-6486, 8495-697-1858, 8905-700-1896

Noon Press conference

Subject: Wild fires in Russia in summer 2012

Speaker: Deputy Rosleskhoz chief Ye. Trunov

Venue: Rossiiskaya Gazeta press center (24/4, Pravdy street)

Phone: 8499-257-5979, 8903-960-5487

E-mail: pr@rg.ru

Noon Press conference

Subject: Who will protect an honest policeman from lawlessness?

Speaker: Human rights activists L. Alexeyeva, A. Babushkin

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

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

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

Noon Seminar

Subject: Challenges of cultural diversity in global world

Organizer: Gorbachev Fund, Kennan Institute

Participants: Scientists

Venue: Gorbachev Fund (39, Leningradsky avenue)

Phone: 8495-945-5131

2 p.m. Roundtable

Subject: Military and patriotic upbringing of modern youths

Participants: Federation Council deputy speaker A. Torshin

Venue: Synergy University (2, Izmailovsky Val street)

Phone: 8915-403-2143, 8916-315-9237

E-mail: ishibina@mfpa.ru

2:30 p.m. Press conference

Subject: Key problems of development of legislation on appraisal

Speakers: MPs I. Grachyov, A. Krutov

Venue: House of Nationalities (4, Novaya Basmannaya street)

Phone: 8495-662-7425

E-mail: ponomarenko@sroroo.ru

4 p.m. Meeting

Subject: History of Russia Year, signing of founding document of Russian Historic Society

Participants: State Duma speaker S. Naryshkin, historians

Venue: Government reception house (16, Vozdvizhenka street)

Phone: 8495-692-2739

E-mail: vinograd@duma.gov.ru

Journalists enter at 3 p.m.

10:30 p.m. Rally

Subject: Departure of Moscow-Minsk-Brest-Moscow Memorial Train marking Memory and Sorrow Day

Venue: Belorussky railway station

Phone: 8495-633-6020, 8926-769-3770, 8926-203-2951

The train leaves at 00:07 a.m. on June 21

Assembly at the station at 10 p.m.

Tagansky District Court to consider investigator’s motion to extend term in custody for Pussy Riots girls charged with hooliganism at Christ the Savior Cathedral

Festival

Subject: Another Theater from France

Venue: Theater of Nations (3, Petrovsky side street)

Phone: 8495-629-5834, 8916-620-2479

6 p.m. Accreditation ends for meeting of Russian Association of Lawyers’ debates club

Subject: Interior Ministry’s reform

Time: 7.30 p.m. on June 21

Participants: MPs A. Khinshtein, V. Pligin

Venue: RIA Novosti (4, Zubovsky boulevard)

Phone: 8499-922-4509, 8926-902-8261

E-mail: tsybko@alrf.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 online form only

In Russia and worldwide:

Volgograd,

Press conference at Interfax

Subject: Agriculture forecast given bad weather conditions in Volgograd region

Ulyanovsk,

Trial of Left Front coordinator S. Udaltsov charged with beating up a female student

Saransk,

Visit by Russia 2018 organizing committee and FIFA officials

Perm,

Press conference at Interfax

Subject: Perm schoolgirl take part in beauty contest for minors in U.S.

Yekaterinburg,

Press conference at Interfax

Subject: Banks of Moscow changes strategy of interacting with business in Urals Federal District

Tomsk,

Press conference at Interfax

Subject: Volunteer fire fighting in Tomsk region

Minsk (Belarus),

Meeting of expert group for revising draft rules on center for preservation of world legacy sites in CIS

Rio de Janeiro (Brazil),

Rio +20 conference

Participants: Prime Minister D. Medvedev

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