Events due in Moscow, Russia, CIS and Baltic countries on March 26 - April 1, 2018
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The bulletin comes out weekly. This is issue No. 12-2
MONDAY, March 26, 2018
In Moscow:
Negotiations
Participants: President V. Putin, Qatar Emir T. Al Thani
9:30 a.m. The emir of Qatar visits Tretyakov Gallery at 10 in Lavrushinsky pereulok
Attendees: Culture Minister V. Medinsky; the Gallery's chief guardian T.Gorodkova.
Tel. +7 (909) 157-87-87; e-mail: mix.victoria@gmail.com.
Noon Roundtable
Subject: Improvement of laws on responsibility for hijacking
Venue: Federation Council (26, Bolshaya Dmitrovka ulitsa)
E-mail: 6921877@mail.ru
Events due at State Duma (1, Okhotny Ryad ulitsa):
11 a.m. Meeting of State Duma budget and taxes committee
Phone: +7 (495) 692-31-87
Noon Roundtable
Subject: Social aspects of food security in Russia
Participants: Presidential envoy for environment protection S. Ivanov and others
Phone: +7 (495) 692-54-56, +7 (903) 228-96-72
E-mail: ryzhov@duma.gov.ru
2 p.m. Session of State Duma Council
10 a.m. Roundtable
Subject: preparation and discussion of the proposed legislation on the problems of housing-queuers
3 p.m. Agrarian committee parliamentary hearings
Subject: improving budgetary support for agriculture: the federal and regional aspects
3 p.m. A healthcare committee roundtable
Subject: improving the legal regulation of the anatomic pathology service: problems and
solutions
Roundtable
Subject: the ONF-proposed legal changes to preserve the subsistence living while withholding debts from salaries and pensions
Attendees: officials, bankers, rights campaigners
E-mail: press@onf.ru.
Events due at Rossiya Segodnya news agency (4, Zubovsky boulevard, phone: +7 (495) 645-64-72; e-mail: accreditation@rian.ru):
9 a.m. Conference
Subject: Topical issues of present-day perinatology
Participants: Doctors
1 p.m. Roundtable
Subject: Results of EU summit held in Brussels on March 22-23
Participants: Experts
10.30 a.m. Press conference
Subject: Singing of memorandum of intentions between Cosmoscow contemporary art fair and Qatar Airways
Speakers: Qatari Ambassador to Russia F. al-Attiyah, Qatar Airways Group CEO A. Al Baker, Cosmoscow contemporary art fair director M. Pushkina
Venue: St. Regis Moscow Nikolskaya hotel (12, Nikolskaya ulitsa)
Phone: +7 (916) 798-99-87, +7 (916) 516-54-99
E-mail: kurbatskaya@cosmoscow.com, asya.klyushnikova@hkstrategies.com
10.30 a.m. Press conference
Subject: Results of checks at FIFA World Cup hosting cities
Speakers: Head of ad hoc commission for FIFA World Cup preparations, Federation Council member A. Kutepov
Venue: National News Service press center (39/2, Narodnogo Opolcheniya ulitsa)
Phone: +7 (495) 925-04-49, +7 (916) 107-77-34, +7 (915) 023-10-49
11 a.m. Congress of milk producers
Participant: Federation Council speaker M. Shchetinin
Venue: Moscow city government (36/9, Novy Arbat ulitsa)
Phone: +7 (499) 678-47-78 (ext.: 3181, 3184, 3185)\
E-mail: info@dairyunion.ru, kuplyauskas@dairyunion.ru
11 a.m. Press conference
Subject: Results of public monitoring of presidential election
Speakers: Democracy Problems Studies Institute director M. Grigoryev, presidential human rights council member A. Brod and others
Venue: Tass news agency (2, Tverskoi boulevard)
E-mail: +7 (926) 608-08-16
E-mail: press-center@tass.ru
11 a.m. Roundtable
Subject: Development of Russian cartoons as means of making classical art objects popular
Venue: Public Chamber (7/1, Miusskaya square)
Phone: +7 (495) 221-83-61
Noon Annual meeting of Gorchakov foundation's board of trustees
Participant: Foreign Minister S. Lavrov
Venue: Foreign Ministry's guesthouse (17, Spiridonovka ulitsa)
E-mail: gvmid@yandex.ru
Noon Presentation
Subject: Report on results of presidential election
Participants: Political Technologies Center president I. Bunin and others
Venue: Interfax (2, Pervaya Tverskaya-Yamskaya ulitsa)
Phone: +7 (495) 223-66-99
Noon Roundtable
Subject: Who may be deprived of his dacha?
Participants: Federation Council member S. Kalashnikov, State Duma members P. Fedyayev, A. Andreichenko, and others
Venue: Parliamentary Newspaper press center (28, Pervaya Tverskaya-Yamskaya ulitsa)
Phone: +7 (495) 637-69-79, +7 (917) 540-19-24
E-mail: n.stukova@pnp.ru
Noon. Press preview of a Rembrandt and Vermeer exhibition at Pushkin Fine Arts Museum (12 Ulitsa Volkhonka)
Tel.: +7 (495) 678-34-27; e-mail: press@arts-museum.ru.
1 p.m. Meeting of Interior Ministry's public council
Venue: Interior Ministry (14, Zhitnaya ulitsa)
Phone: +7 (495) 667-68-65, +7 (495) 667-71-50
E-mail: press_uos@mvd.gov.ru
4.45 p.m. Accreditation ends to presentation
Subject: Previously unknown documents from private archives of Marshal R. Malinovsky
Time: 9.40 a.m. on March 28
Participants: Russian Historical Society president S. Naryshkin, Industry and Trade Minister D. Manturov
Venue: Russian Historical Society (13/1, Vorontsovo Pole ulitsa)
Phone: +7 (905) 544-31-01
E-mail: press@rushistory.org
5 p.m. Accreditation ends to signing ceremony
Subject: Memorandum of cooperation between Federation Council and Russian Direct Investments Fund
Time: 2 p.m. on March 27
Participants: Federation Council speaker V. Matviyenko, Russian Direct Investments Fund general director K. Dmitriyev
Venue: Federation Council (26, Bolshaya Dmitrovka ulitsa)
E-mail: 6921877@mail.ru
5 p.m. The Young Russian Beauty 2018 pageant finale at Korston Club Hotel Moscow (15 Ulitsa Kosygina).
6 p.m. The Defense Ministry's culture and arts award ceremony
Venue: Red Army Theater (2 Suvorovskaya Ploshchad)
Attendees: Deputy Defense Minister N. Pankov; the head of the defense ministry's culture department V. Buzdygan
Tel.: +7 (965) 441-33-22.
6 p.m. The annual competition for the Holy Spring children's dance national award
Venue: Russian Song Folklore Theater (14 Olimpiisky Prospekt)
Tel.: +7 (926) 557-36-43; e-mail: j.smirnova@barkstel.com.
6 p.m. Accreditation ends to expanded meeting of Healthcare Ministry's board
Subject: Results of 2017 and tasks for 2018
Time: 10 a.m. on March 30
Venue: House of government (2, Krasnopresnenskaya naberezhnaya)
E-mail: accred@rosminzdrav.ru
6 p.m. Accreditation ends to press conference
Subject: Upcoming conference for improving life of children with serious and multiple development violations
Time: 10 a.m. on March 28
Participants: Children's rights commissioner A. Kuznetsova, Deputy Labor and Social Security Minister G. Lekarev and others
Venue: Krasnogorsk (Moscow region)
Phone: +7 (916) 635-22-49
E-mail: mamonova@perspektivy.ru
7 p.m. Signing ceremony
Subject: Cooperation agreement between Russian Geographic Society and Northern Fleet
Participants: Russian Geographic Society deputy head N. Kasimov, Northern Fleet commander B. Yevmenov
Venue: Russian Geographic Society (10/2, Novaya square)
Phone: +7 (800) 700-18-45 (ext.: 2421), +7 (926) 428-08-57
E-mail: elizaveta.ledovskaya@rgo.ru
7 p.m. Russian Geographic Society and the Northern Fleet's joint strategic command sign an agreement
Tel.: +7 (800) 700-18-45, ext. 2421; +7 (926) 428-08-57; e-mail: Elizaveta.Ledovskaya@rgo.ru.
A presidential award ceremony for young culture professionals and children's book authors.
In Russia and worldwide:
Rossekhoznadzor bans fish and bio-product supplies from Shanghai Hanxia Industry Co. (China).
Dubna (Moscow region),
Conference
Subject: Joint Institute for Nuclear Research: 25 years of new era
Participants: Deputy Prime Minister A. Dvorkovich, Deputy Education and Science Minister G. Trubnikov and others
Phone: +7 (496) 216-42-21
E-mail: sc@jinr.ru, akazakova@jinr.ru
Rostov-on-Don,
North Caucasus district military court to continue hearing the case of a possible accomplice in the 1995 militant attack on Budennovsk.
Nizhny Novgorod,
The opening of a second Maxim Gorky international literary festival.
Pyatigorsk,
A Culture Ministry meeting on the implementation of the United Russia party's Local House of Culture project.
Moldova, Transdniestria,
March 26-28: Visit by OSCE chairman-in-office special envoy F. Frattini
Tashkent (Uzbekistan),
Meeting in Central Asia plus Afghanistan forum at level of foreign ministers
A working visit by an EU delegation led by the EU diplomacy chief, F. Mogherini.
Bologna (Italy),
A four-day international children's book fair, Fiera del Libro per Ragazzi, opens. Russia will be displaying books by Moscow, St. Petersburg and regional publishers.
TUESDAY, March 27, 2018
In Moscow:
March 27-28: Visit by Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi
Events due at Federation Council (26, Bolshaya Dmitrovka ulitsa, e-mail: 6921877@mail.ru):
11 a.m. Roundtable
Subject: Legislative regulation of emergency services operations
Participants: Deputy Emergency Situations Minister O. Bozhenov
2 p.m. Signing ceremony
Subject: Memorandum of cooperation between Federation Council and Russian Direct Investments Fund's management company
Participants: Federation Council speaker V. Matviyenko, Russian Direct Investments Fund general director K. Dmitriyev
10 a.m. State Duma plenary session
Venue: State Duma (1, Okhotny Ryad ulitsa)
Events due at Public Chamber (7/1, Miusskaya square, phone: +7 (495) 221-83-61):
11 a.m. Roundtable
Subject: Ready for Labor and Defense title. Results, outlook for 2018
4 p.m. Roundtable
Subject: Formation of systemic economic basis for engaging young people in engineering jobs
11 a.m. Press lunch
Subject: How will economic policy of new government influence development of commercial real estate market?
Venue: Cushman & Wakefield headquarters (6, Gasheka ulitsa)
Phone: +7 (916) 557-16-23
E-mail: yuliya.smantser@cushwake.com, yuliya.pervushina@cushwake.com
11 a.m. Press conference
Subject: When will unified state examination be abolished?
Speakers: State Duma Education and Science Committee deputy heads B. Chernyshov, L. Dukhanina and others
Guests: Rosobrnadzor officials, other experts
Venue: National News Service (press center (39, Narodnogo Opolcheniya ulitsa)
Phone: +7 (495) 925-04-49, +7 (916) 107-77-34, +7 (915) 023-10-49
2 p.m. Award ceremony
Subject: Golden Mask prize
Venue: Bolshoi Theater (1, Teatralnaya square)
Phone: +7 (499) 951-01-51, +7 (985) 991-36-72
Fax: +7 (499) 951-01-56
E-mail: sun@goldenmask.ru
2 p.m. Seminar of culture sphere employees
Venue: Izmailovo hotel (71, Izmailovskoye shosse)
Phone: +7 (495) 915-07-25
E-mail: rprk@mail.ru
2 p.m. Press conference
Subject: When will sales of alcoholic energy drinks stop?
Speakers: Federation Council member E. Isakov, State Duma member N. Govorin and others
Venue: Parliamentary Newspaper press center (28, Pervaya Ulitsa Yamskogo Polya)
Phone: +7 (495) 637-69-79, +7 (917)540-19-24
E-mail: n.stukova@pnp.ru
3 p.m. Press conference
Subject: World Theater Day
Speaker: Deputy Culture Minister A. Zhuravsky and others
Venue: Tass news agency (2, Tverskoi boulevard)
E-mail: +7 (499) 791-03-87, +7 (903) 284-25-41
E-mail: press-center@tass.ru
3 p.m. Press conference
Subject: East-West. Golden Arch cinematographic prize
Venue: Rossiya Segodnya news agency (4, Zubovsky boulevard)
Phone: +7 (495) 645-64-72
E-mail: accreditation@rian.ru
6 p.m. Meeting
Subject: Day of National Guard Troops
Participant: National Guards director V. Zolotov
Venue: Kremlin state palace (1, Vozdvizhenka ulitsa)
E-mail: pressvv@yandex.ru
Moscow City Court to start hearing criminal case against Ukrainian citizen R. Suschenko charged with espionage in Russia
Nikulinsky District Court to deliver verdict in criminal case against crime lord Z. Kalashov charged with extortion
March 27 - April 3: Mstislav Rostropovich Festival
Venue: Moscow Conservatoire (13/6, Bolshaya Nikitskaya ulitsa)
March 27-28: Congress
Subject: Blockchain 2018
Participants: Presidential advisors G. Klimenko and S. Glazyev and others
Venue: World Trade Center (12, Krasnopresnenskaya embankment)
March 27-28: Conference
Subject: Automobile cargo transportation
Venue: Renaissance Monarch Center hotel (31a, Leningradsky prospekt)
Conference
Subject: Synergy Women Forum
Participants: Foreign Ministry spokesperson M. Zakharova, March TV general producer T. Kandelaki, RT editor-in-chief M. Simonyan, public figure I. Khakamada, and others
Venue: Vegas City Hall (65th - 66th kilometer of Moscow Ring Road)
2 p.m. Accreditation ends to cover events due at Federation Council (26, Bolshaya Dmitrovka ulitsa, e-mail: 6921877@mail.ru) on March 28:
10 a.m. Plenary session
11 a.m. Government hour
Subject: State policy in sphere of countering illegal drug sales
Speaker: Interior Minister V. Kolokoltsev
Noon Expert hour
Speaker: TV and radio anchor V. Solovyev
In Russia and worldwide:
Russian Day of National Guard Troops
Russia,
Polish visa centers suspend operations across the country in connection with the extension of contract between Polish embassy and visa application services provider VFS Global.
Krasnodar,
Krasnodar territorial court to consider several complaints in lawsuit from businessman O. Deripaska against A. Vashukevich (Nastya Rybka) and A. Kirillov (Alex Lesley) over privacy breach
Tallinn (Estonia),
March 27-28
Fintech 360 international conference participants to meet with leading banking industry experts from Europe, Russia, CIS countries to discuss how development of technology will change financial sector
Chisinau (Moldova),
Parliament to discuss draft declaration on unification of Moldova and Romania proposed by Liberal Party
Kyiv (Ukraine),
Court to question defense witnesses in criminal case against former Ukrainian President V. Yanukovych charged with high treason
Tashkent (Uzbekistan),
International high-level conference on Afghanistan
Subject: Peace Process, Security Cooperation and Regional Connectivity
Participant: Foreign Minister S. Lavrov
Strasbourg (France),
March 27-28: 34th plenary session of Council of Europe's Congress of Local and Regional Authorities.
Participants: Federation Council committee first deputy head S. Goryacheva, Federation Council budget and financial markets committee deputy head Ye. Perminova
Geneva (Switzerland),
March 27-28: Another round of discussions on security in South Caucasus
Berlin (Germany),
German Football association president R. Grindel, Vice President R. Koch to meet with Russian Football Union deputy general directors A. Zorkov, Ye. Fedyshina, Russian Ambassador to Germany S. Nechayev
WEDNESDAY, March 28, 2018
In Moscow:
Negotiations
Participants: Foreign Minister S. Lavrov, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi
Events due at Federation Council (26, Bolshaya Dmitrovka ulitsa, e-mail: 6921877@mail.ru):
10 a.m. Plenary session
11 a.m. Government hour
Subject: State policy in sphere of countering illegal drug sales
Speaker: Interior Minister V. Kolokoltsev
Noon Expert hour
Speaker: TV and radio anchor V. Solovyev
4.30 p.m. Meeting
Participants: Federation Council social affairs committee head V. Ryazansky, Serbian parliamentary member I. Kostic
Events due at State Duma (1, Okhotny Ryad ulitsa):
Noon Session of State Duma Council
12:30 p.m. Opening of exhibition "95 years of Dynamo"
Phone: +7 (495) 692-15-50
2 p.m. Meeting of State Duma committee for civil society
Subject: Legal situation of foreign citizens in Russia
Participant: Deputy Interior Minister I. Zubov
Phone: +7 (926) 346-68-98
E-mail: svechnikova@duma.gov.ru, ssvech@mail.ru
9.40 a.m. Presentation
Subject: Previously unknown documents from private archives of Marshal R. Malinovsky
Participants: Russian Historical Society president S. Naryshkin, Industry and Trade Minister D. Manturov
Venue: Russian Historical Society (13/1, Vorontsovo Pole ulitsa)
Phone: +7 (905) 544-31-01
E-mail: press@rushistory.org
10 a.m. Roundtable
Subject: Protection of Russia's domestic market from unfair competition
Organizer: Russian Communist Party faction
Venue: State Duma (2 Georgiyevsky pereulok)
Phone: +7 (495) 692-55-92
11 a.m. Moscow - Delhi video link-up
Subject: Scientific and technological solution for medicine of future
Participants: Scientists
Venue: Rossiya Segodnya news agency (4, Zubovsky boulevard)
Phone: +7 (495) 645-64-72
E-mail: accreditation@rian.ru
2 p.m. Roundtable
Subject: Maintenance of good health among night shift workers
Venue: Russian Public Chamber (7 Miusskaya square)
Participants: officials, experts, including representatives of small and medium-sized businesses, research institutes
Phone: +7 (495) 221-83-61/64
2:30 p.m. Moscow City Court to continue hearing appeals against the sentence earlier handed to former leader of Movement against Illegal Migration outlawed in Russia A. Potkin (aka Belov), who was convicted for extremism and laundering money embezzled from depositors with Kazakhstan's BTA Bank
4 p.m. Press tour
Subject: Servicing of Pobeda Airlines airplane in 25 minutes
Venue: Vnukovo Airport
Phone: +7 (495) 692-09-65
E-mail: press@vnukovo.ru
Forum
Subject: Big Data 2018
Venue: Infospace hall (4, Pervy Zachatyevsky pereulok)
Award ceremony
Subject: Event of the Year prize (event marketing)
Venue: Arbat Hall (21, Novy Arbat ulitsa)
Conference
Subject: Energy saving and energy efficiency 2018
E-mail: info@ensoenergy.org
March 28-29: Congress
Subject: Architecture 2018. Sports
Venue: World Trade Center (12, Krasnopresnenskaya embankment)
In Russia and worldwide:
Krasnogorsk (Moscow region),
10 a.m. Press conference
Subject: Upcoming conference on improving life of children with serious and multiple development disorders
Participants: Children's rights commissioner A. Kuznetsova, Deputy Labor and Social Security Minister G. Lekarev and others
Phone: +7 (916) 635-22-49
E-mail: mamonova@perspektivy.ru
Astrakhan,
March 28-29: First Soobshchestvo forum
Organizer: Public Chamber
Azerbaijan,
March 28-29: Visit by Iranian President H. Rouhani
THURSDAY, March 29, 2018
In Moscow:
Events due at Federation Council (26, Bolshaya Dmitrovka ulitsa, e-mail: 6921877@mail.ru):
11 a.m. Briefing
Subject: Performance of Federation Council committee in 2017
Speaker: Federation Council defense committee head V. Bondarev, foreign military attaches
11 a.m. Roundtable
Subject: Draft strategy of Russia's spatial development
Noon Parliamentary hearing
Subject: Regulatory control as key institute of developing digital economy in Russia
Participants: Deputy Economic Development Minister S. Shipov and others
10 a.m. State Duma plenary session
Venue: State Duma (1, Okhotny Ryad ulitsa)
10 a.m. Meeting of Roszdravnadzor board
Subject: Performance of Roszdravnadzor in 2017, plans for 2018
Venue: Healthcare Ministry (3, Rakhmanovsky pereulok)
Phone: +7 (499) 578-01-08
E-mail: maleva@roszdravnadzor.ru
11 a.m. Press conference
Subject: Financial results of Nestle in Russia and Eurasia
Participant: Nestle Russia and Eurasia CEO M. Rolland
Venue: Tass news agency (2, Tverskoi boulevard)
Phone: +7 (499) 791-03-87, +7 (903) 284-25-41
E-mail: press-center@tass.ru
6 p.m. Opening ceremony
Subject: Spanish art of 1950s, 1960s
Participants: Spanish Ambassador to Russia I. Y. Rubio
Venue: Tsereteli art gallery (19, Prechistenka ulitsa)
Phone: +7 (495) 637-25-69, +7 (495) 637-47-71
E-mail: rah1757@yandex.ru
Babushkinsky District Court to deliver judgment in absentia in case of Russian citizen R. Zheleznov charged with being mercenary with Ukraine's Azov battalion
Russian Supreme Court's judicial panel for economic disputes to consider appeals in cassation in lawsuit filed against Russian subsidiary of international banking holding HSBC, in which plaintiffs seek recovery of 1.253 billion rubles for returning funds to bankruptcy assets of Dalnyaya Step, a Russian limited liability company formerly linked to William Browder's Hermitage Fund
Forum
Subject: IT in financial sector
Venue: Sheraton Palace Moscow hotel (19, Pervaya Tverskaya-Yamskaya ulitsa)
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March 29-30: Stolypin forum
Participants: Presidential envoy for environmental protection S. Ivanov, VEB deputy chairman A. Klepach and others
Venue: MGIMO University (76, Vernadskogo prospekt)
Phone: +7 (495) 798-25-08
E-mail: media@stolypinforum.ru
March 29-30: Conference
Subject: Russian banking system 2018. Oversight and regulation
Venue: President Hotel (24, Bolshaya Yakimanka ulitsa)
In Russia and worldwide:
Rostov region,
Ceremony
Subject: Dispatching of another humanitarian convoy for Donbas
FRIDAY, March 30, 2018
In Moscow:
10 a.m. Expanded meeting of Healthcare Ministry's board
Subject: Results of 2017 and tasks for 2018
Venue: House of government (2, Krasnopresnenskaya embankment)
E-mail: accred@rosminzdrav.ru
3:30 p.m. Parliamentary hearing at State Duma education and science committee
Subject: Legislative regulation of creating, reviewing, distributing and using textbooks in implementation of main educational programs of general education
Venue: State Duma (2, Georgiyevsky pereulok)
Phone: +7 (495) 982-27-29
Moscow Arbitration Court to hold hearing in ZAO Interavtomatika lawsuit against Siemens, its subsidiary LLC Siemens, Gas Turbines Technologies, Siemens Power Machines LLC joint venture - LLC Siemens Gas Turbines Technologies, with the claimant seeking compensation worth 177,1 million rubles and 5,454 million euros.
Russian oil and gas summit "Petrochemical industry and gas processing"
Participants: heads of strategic departments; senior technical management staff from petrochemical plants and gas processing plants, directors of oil services companies, representatives of research institutes and scientific centers, related state institutions
In Russia and worldwide:
Rostov-on-Don,
March 30-31: International tourist congress "Russia Inspires"
Sochi,
March 30 - April 8: Roza Khutor resort to host sports and music festival Quiksilver NewStar Camp
Bishkek (Kyrgyzstan),
March 30-31: federation Council international affairs committee member A. Lisitsyn to take part in conference of Russian compatriots residing in Kyrgyzstan
SATURDAY, March 31, 2018
In Moscow:
Exhibition "Career Navigator"
Venue: Digital Business Space (47, Pokrovka ulitsa)
Students, university graduates, young specialists to receive information on employment, career, admissions to master programs, starting own business
Phone: +7 (926) 577-64-35
E-mail: alexander.hvostov@maximumtest.ru
Deadline for admission of works as part of Russian Geographic Society's "The Most Beautiful Country" photo contest
Photographs to be sent via website at http://photo.rgo.ru
Phone: +7 (800) 700-18-45; e-mail: press@rgo.ru
In Russia and worldwide:
Istanbul (Turkey),
Meeting of Russian-Turkish public forum
Participants: Rossotrudnichestvo chief E. Mitrofanova, Turkish-Russian inter-parliamentary commission head A. Conkar
Ankara (Turkey),
Trilateral meeting of defense ministers of Azerbaijan, Turkey, and Georgia
SUNDAY, April 1, 2018
In Moscow:
5:30 p.m. Award ceremony
Subject: Nika national cinema prize
Venue: Vegas City Hall (66th km of Moscow Ruing Road)
Guests gather at 5 p.m.
In Russia and worldwide:
Russia,
Social pensions to rise by 2.9% in Russia
Catholic Easter