INTERFAX-ANNOUNCEMENTS-WEDNESDAY
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
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:
St. Petersburg,
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
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
