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Events due in Moscow, Russia, CIS and Baltic countries on Wednesday, May 16, 2012

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Bulletin is released Sunday to Friday. Issue No. 106

In Moscow:

President V. Putin to hold consultations with candidates to ministers

Session of expert council of commissioner for childrearing rights

Agenda: Russia Without Orphans federal target program

Participants: Children’s Rights Commissioner P. Astakhov, officials from Justice, Foreign, Emergencies, Interior Ministries and others

10 a.m. Government hour

Speaker: Central Bank chairman S. Ignatyev

Venue: State Duma (1, Okhotny Ryad street)

10 a.m. Debates

Participants: European Patent Office president B. Battistelli, Rospatent chief B. Simonov, Chamber of Commerce and Industry deputy present A. Zakharov

Venue: Chamber of Commerce and Industry (6, Ilyinka street)

Phone: 8495-620-0081, 8495-620-0186, 8495-620-0290, 8495-620-0365

E-mail: lit@tpprf.ru

Events due at Public Chamber (7/1, Miusskaya square, phone: 8495-221-8361):

10 a.m. Roundtable

Subject: Environmental problems of Moscow region and Central Federal District

11 a.m. Roundtable

Subject: Development of ethnic and cultural communities in Russia

Events due at RIA Novosti (4, Zubovsky boulevard, phone: 8495-727-0939, 8903-273-6079):

10 a.m. Press conference

Subject: First round of presidential election in Egypt

Speaker: Egyptian Ambassador to Russia A. E. Elhadidi

Noon Roundtable

Subject: State projects in social media: experience and problems

Participants: Officials’

Noon Press conference

Subject: Peculiarities of single state exam in 2012

Speaker: Rosobrnadzor chief L. Glebova

2 p.m. Press conference

Subject: Night of Museums 2012 action

Speakers: Moscow cultural department chief S. Kapkov and others

Phone: 8903-150-2310, 8915-359-4530

E-mail: pr@museumnight.org

4 p.m. Press conference

Subject: Silk Road 2012 international motor rally

Speaker: Silk Road director S. Yakubov and others

5 p.m. Moscow – Berlin video link-up

Subject: Russia and Germany; new horizons of economic cooperation

Participants: State Duma economic policy committee deputy chairman V. Yazev, Delovaya Rossiya chairman B. Titov and others

10 a.m. Russian-Asian business forum

Title: rASiA.com

Venue: Digital October (6, Bersenevskaya embankment)

E-mail: ivanova-sofya@yandex.ru

www.rasia.com

11 a.m. Press conference

Subject: Preparations for and conduct of European sambo championship in Moscow

Speakers: President of European and Russian Sambo Federations S. Yeliseyev, Moscow sports department chief A. Vorobyov and others

Venue: Itar-Tass (2, Tverskoi boulevard)

Phone: 8495-692-1522

11 a.m. Press conference

Subject: Control over TB and HIV infections during prison medical system reform

Speakers: Russian Federal Penitentiary Service chief medical officer S. Baryshev and others

Venue: Central House of Journalists (8a, Nikitsky boulevard)

Phone: 8495-697-2812, 8495-691-0987, 8916-644-6239

E-mail: domjour@bk.ru, e.papul@mail.ru

Events due at Interfax (2, Pervaya Tverskaya-Yamskaya street, phone: 8499-250-8832):

Noon Press conference

Subject: Problems and prospects of cardiology in Moscow

Speaker: Moscow chief cardiologist Yu. Buziashvili

1.30 p.m. Press conference

Subject: Communists’ attitude to mass protest actions in Russia

Speakers: Communist Party leader G. Zyuganov, MPs S. Levchenko, V. Markhayev and A. Yushchenko

4.30 p.m. Press conference

Subject: Moscow region’s Open Government starts to work

Speaker: Moscow region’s Open Government project coordinator V. Yudin and others

Noon Press conference

Subject: Beware forest vampires!

Speaker: Moscow chief infection doctor N. Malyshev

Venue: AiF press center (42, Myasnitskaya street)

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

Events due at Independent Press Center (17/9, Prechistenka street, phone: 8495-232-2891, 8495-637-3126, e-mail: yakovlevapress@yandex.ru, yakovleva@infolegal.ru):

Noon Press conference

Subject: Why does Putin pay no attention to revival of censorship on TV and radio?

Speaker: TV and Radio National Research Institute director A. Samokhvalov

2 p.m. Press conference

Subject: World near barrier. Ten years of resistance to new world order

Speakers: Russian State Trade and Economic University rector S. Baburin and others

3 p.m. Meeting of Plekhanov debate club

Subject: Putin’s Economic policy. Who will replace Kudrin?

Participants: Public Chamber members, experts

Venue: Plekhanov State University (28, Stremyannoi side street)

Phone: 8495-959-2884, 8926-539-8657

Tverskoi District Court to hear suit from ex-Menatep head P. Lebedev to pay moral damages for illegal arrest from May 17 to August 17, 2010

Khamovnki District Court to consider investigators’ request to extend custody period of world sambo champion R. Mirzayev, who killed 19-year-old I. Agafonov

May 16 – September 30: Moscow Kremlin to extend opening hours

May 16 – June 12: Hello, Summer action

Subject: Prevention of children’s injuries on roads

Organizer: Traffic police

Phone: 8495-624-4746

In Russia and worldwide:

Barents and Norwegian Seas,

Last day of Russian-Norwegian Pomor 2012 naval exercise

St. Petersburg,

Meeting of CIS Interparliamentary Assembly Council

Participant: Federation Council Speaker V. Matviyenko

International youth legal forum

Subject: Legal profession in present-day Russia

Organizer: Russian Association of Lawyers

May 16-19: International legal forum

Participant: Children rights commissioner P. Astakhov

Ulyanovsk,

Leninsky District Court to hear suit from local student A. Pozdnyakova who accused Left Front coordinator S. Udaltsov of beating

Nizhny Novgorod,

Nizhegorodsky District Court to continue hearing case against RASH activists charged with crimes motivated by ideological hatred

Tyumen,

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

Subject: Night of museums in Tyumen

Yekaterinburg,

Press conference at Interfax

Subject: Software anti-piracy action starts in Sverdlovsk region

Ukraine,

PACE co-rapporteurs to visit ex-Ukrainian PM Yu. Tymoshenko in penal colony

Minsk (Belarus),

May 16-17: Session of expert group drafting CIS plan of priorities in humanitarian cooperation in 2013-2014

Almaty (Kazakhstan),

Press conference at Interfax

Subject: 20 years of Ernst&Young in Kazakhstan

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