INTERFAX-ANNOUNCEMENTS-WEDNESDAY
Bulletin is released Sunday to Friday. Issue No. 118
In Moscow:
Events due at Federation Council (26, Bolshaya Dmitrovka street, phone: 8495-692-1877, 8495-692-5604, 8495-692-7525, fax: 8495-692-4305):
10 a.m. Plenary session
Subject: Report on public order in 2011
Speaker: Prosecutor General Yu. Chaika
11 a.m. Governmental hour
Speakers: Finance Minister A. Siluanov, Rosfinnadzor chief S. Pavlenko
3 p.m. Meeting of commission of council of deputies for development of information society
Participants: Federation Council science and education committee head R. Gattarov
Briefings
Speakers: Federation Council deputy speakers A. Torshin, S. Orlova and V. Shtyrova
Events due at State Duma (1, Okhotny Ryad street):
10 a.m. Parliamentary hearings
Subject: main areas of Russia’s taxation policy
Phone: 8985-226-8374
10 a.m. State Duma constitutional legislation committee to discuss amendments to bill on violations during mass events
Midnight Press preview
Subject: Mounting of restored elements of Moscow Arc of Triumph
Participants: Moscow culture department chief A. Kibovsky and others
Venue: Pobedy square
Phone: 8985-269-7702
9 a.m. Start of youth motor rally
Title: Routes of Victory
Venue: Poklonnaya Gora
Phone: 8915-165-7145
10 a.m. Eurasian Anti-corruption Forum
Subject: Legal novelties in countering corruption
Participants: State Duma speaker S. Naryshkin, Audit Chamber chairman S. Stepashin and others
Venue: Audit Chamber (2, Zubovskaya square)
Phone: 8495-986-0032, 8495-986-0320
Fax: 8495-986-0158
Events due at RIA Novosti (4, Zubovsky boulevard, phone: 8495-637-5019, 8495-645-6472):
10 a.m. Moscow – Beijing video link-up
Subject: SCO summit. Strategy for the next decade
Participants: Experts
1 p.m. Press conference
Subject: Summer 2012. How do Russians plan to spend their vacations?
Speaker: VTsIOM director V. Fyodorov
3 p.m. Press conference
Subject: European MTB Championships 2012 due on June 7-10 in Moscow
Speakers: Russian Bicycle Sports Federation general director V. Vageleitner, coaches
4 p.m. Moscow – Berlin – London video link-up
Subject: Public order at mass rallies. How are laws applied in various countries?
Participants: MPs, experts
Events due at Public Chamber (7/1, Miusskaya square, phone: 8495-221-8361):
11 a.m. Roundtable
Subject: Social ads as social responsibility of media
Participants: Public Chamber members
11 a.m. Public hearings
Subject: Fight against wildfires
Participants: Greenpeace members, officials and others
Events due at AiF press center (42, Myasnitskaya street, phone: 8495-625-2148, 8495-623-9432):
11 a.m. Press conference
Subject: Prospects of 2012 harvest. WTO: challenges, risks, hopes
Speaker: Russian Grain Union president A. Zlochevsky
12.30 p.m. Press conference
Subject: Supplies of medicines to Muscovites
Speaker: Moscow healthcare department official V. Kobets
Noon Press conference
Subject: New approaches to organizing activity of city tender commissions
Speaker: Moscow competitive policy department chief G. Dyogtev
Venue: Moscow City government (36/9, Novy Arbat street)
Phone: 8495-920-0090
E-mail: press@icmos.ru
Noon Press conference
Subject: DariteDobro.ru charity media project
Speaker: Opora Rossii members N. Nikolayev, I. Alyokhina
Venue: MK press center (7, Ulitsa 1905 Goda street)
Phone: 8929-613-5126
E-mail: des@unitedsociety.ru
Noon Press conference
Subject: Modern trends on the youth job market in Moscow
Speakers: Moscow public relations committee chief A. Chistyakov, Moscow labor and employment department chief O. Neterebsky, Moscow science department chief A. Komissarov and others
Venue: Central House of Entrepreneur (47/24 Pokrovka street)
Phone 8499-190-1605 (ext.: 127), 8985-198-6985
E-mail: pr@delovie.ru
Events due at Komsomolskaya Pravda publishing house (1/23, Stary Petrovsko-Razumovsky passage, phone: 8495-786-6788, 8495-665-7531, 8495-637-6482):
Noon Press conference
Subject: Swimming season 2012 is open
Speaker: Emergency Situations Ministry official V. Seregin
4 p.m. Press conference
Subject: Moscow without cigarettes. Is it real?
Speaker: Moscow healthcare department officials N. Pogosova, A. Belevsky
Noon Tie break in world chess championship final
Participants: V. Annand, B. Gelfand
Venue: Tretyakov Gallery (12, Lavrushinsky side street)
12.50 p.m. Moscow – St. Petersburg – Yekaterinburg video link-up
Subject: Car thefts. Legal and illegal means to save your car
Venue: Ritz Carlton (3, Tverskaya street)
Phone: 8926-215-8450, 8926-020-7291
2 p.m. Announcement of list of finalists of Big Book National literary award
Venue: GUM (3, Red Square)
Phone: 8926-558-7990
E-mail: bigbook.press@gmail.com
2 p.m. Action
Subject: Protest against killing stray dogs
Venue: Presidential administration (23, Ilyinka street)
Phone: 8929-985-2115
E-mail: zhivoderam.net@gmail.com
7 p.m. Workshop
Subject: Democracy and nationalism
Participants: Levada Analytical Center director L. Gudkov, Sova information and analytical center director A. Verkhovsky
Venue: Memorial human right society (5/10, Karetny Ryad street)
Phone: 8495-229-3810, 8495-229-3823
7 p.m. Awarding ceremony
Subject: 2011-2012 Vlast #4 award for political journalism
Venue: InfoSpace (4, Pervy Zachatyevsky side street)
Organizer: Institute of Public Design
Phone: 8495-660-76-77 (ext.: 1332), 8985-247-3355, 8916-730-4354, 8985-762-6798
E-mail: skomkova@inop.ru, ok-19@yandex.ru, abz@inop.ru
Zamoskvoretsky District Court to hear case against top Yukos manager A. Spirichev charged with an over 9 billion ruble tax evasion
Basmanny district justice of the peace to hear administrative case against opposition blogger A. Navalny arrested on May 8 for violating the regulations for holding demonstration
Noon Accreditation ends for to first session of Russian Lawmakers Council
Time: 10 a.m. on May 31
Participants: State Duma Speaker S. Naryshkin, Federation Council Speaker G. Matviyenko
Venue: Moscow Region Duma (72, Prospekt Mira Avenue)
Phone: 8495-692-1877, 8495-692-7525, 8495-692-4145
E-mail: 6921877@mail.ru
5 p.m. Accreditation ends for festive event
Subject: International Child Protection Day
Time: Noon on June 1
Venue: Christ the Savior Cathedral (15, Volkhonka street)
Phone: 8495-623-2004, 8906-770-0458
6 p.m. Accreditation ends for meeting
Subject: Legislative aspect of creating intellectual property rights market: problems and prospects
Participants: Federation Council committee for science and education deputy head V. Kosourov, journalists
Phone: 8495-692-7525, 8495-692-5604, 8495-692-1877
Fax: 8495-697-9843
6 p.m. Accreditation ends for event
Subject: Children must learn and develop together
Time: Noon on May 31
Organizers: Perspektiva organization for people with disabilities, Best Friends organization for mentally retarded people
Venue: Novopushkinsky Park
Phone: 8926-114-0409
E-mail: pr@perspektiva-inva.ru
Accreditation ends for annual city conference
Subject: Government policy in interests of children in Moscow
Time: 11 a.m. on May 31
Participants: Moscow deputy mayor L. Shvetsova, Moscow children’s rights commissioner Ye. Bunimovich and others
Phone: 8909-663-7234
E-mail: dsmp2011@yandex.ru
In Russia and worldwide:
Krasnogorsk (Moscow region),
9.30 a.m. Singing ceremony
Subject: Cooperation agreement between Russian Geographic Society and Vologda region government
Participants: Moscow region governor, Russian Geographic Society president S. Shoigu, Vologda region governor O. Kuvshinnikov
Phone: 8964-761-6362
St. Petersburg,
Return of Akademik Fyodorov scientific vessel after Antarctic expedition
Bryansk,
May 30 – June 2: International symposium
Subject: Higher-education institutions of culture and arts in global educational space
Krasnodar,
Press conference at Interfax
Subject: Energy system of Krasnodar territory during peaks
Volgograd,
Press conference
Subject: Procedure of paying property taxes by individuals
Sochi,
May 30 – June 1: Railroad forum
Subject: Strategic Partnership 1520
Nizhny Novgorod,
Press conference at Interfax
Subject: Results of 2010 census in Nizhny Novgorod region
Perm,
Press conferences at Interfax
Subject: Problems of protecting lawful interests of underage people in Perm region
Subject: Implementation of ‘Childhood is Back’ in Perm region
Tyumen,
Press conference at Interfax/Tyumen Line news agency joint press center
Subject: Problem of staff at pre-school education facilities in Tyumen region
Novosibirsk,
Press conference at Interfax
Subject: Bailiffs to children. Alimony payments
Barnaul,
Press conference at Interfax
Subject: Prevention of crimes among teenagers
Tomsk,
Press conference at Interfax
Subject: Defense lawyers in criminal case. Role of lawyer ethics
Krasnoyarsk,
Press conference at Interfax
Subject: Safety of regional agriculture products
Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia Kirill on a visit in Kazakhstan where he is due to attend the first session of the council of religious leaders and the opening of the congress of the leaders of world and traditional religions.
Ashgabat (Turkmenistan),
Session of CIS Prime Ministers Council
Participants: President D. Medvedev
Kazakhstan,
Visit by Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and all-Russia
Almaty (Kazakhstan),
Press conference at Interfax
Subject: Organization of parking lots in Almaty
May 30 – June 3: 10th Almaty international film festival ‘Starts of Shaken’
