6 Nov 2017 17:01

Events due in Moscow, Russia, CIS and Baltic countries on November 7-12, 2017

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The bulletin comes out weekly. This is issue No. 45-2

TUESDAY, November 7, 2017

In Moscow:

9:30 a.m. Meeting between senior officials and public health experts from EAC member states.

Venue: Ritz Carlton Hotel (3 Tverskaya Ulitsa)

The Russian delegation is led by Rospotrebnadzor chief A. Popova and Deputy Foreign Minister I. Morgulov

Press briefing: 11:30 a.m.

Tel.: +7 (910) 416-23-17; e-mail: rpn.press@gmail.com.

5 p.m. Meeting

Participants: Federation Council foreign affairs committee head K. Kosachyov, head of Unified European Left Group at PACE T. Kox

Venue: Federation Council (26, Bolshaya Dmitrovka ulitsa)

E-mail: 6921877@mail.ru

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

11 a.m. Opening ceremony

Subject: Exhibition of young painters dedicated to October Revolution

Phone: +7 (495) 692-78-73

Noon Session of State Duma Council

Phone: +7 (495) 692-27-39

1 p.m. Parliamentary hearing

Subject: Development concept of Russia Post

Phone: +7 (985) 762-75-11

3 p.m. Roundtable

Subject: Sports without discrimination

10 a.m. March

Subject: 76th anniversary of 1941 military parade

Venue: Red Square

10 a.m. Conference

Subject: State and business. Administration and dialogue in state purchases

Participants: Deputy Finance Minister A. Lavrov and others

Venue: Moscow State University of Administration (28m Sretenka ulitsa)

E-mail: morozovaoi@mos.ru

10 a.m. Discussion

Subject: package of bill on arbitrary developments

Venue: Parlamentskaya Gazeta press center (28 Ulitsa Pervogo Yamskogo Polya)

Participants include: Public Chamber Deputy Secretary L. Mikheyeva

Tel.: +7 (495) 637-69-79; +7 (917) 540-19-24; e-mail: n.stukova@pnp.ru.

Events due at Rossiya Segodnya news agency (4, Zubovsky boulevard, phone: +7 (495) 645-64-72; e-mail: accreditation@rian.ru):

11 a.m. Roundtable

Subject: Results of Russian-Afghan expert dialogue on situation in Afghanistan

Participants: Experts

11 a.m. Presentation

Subject: Book titled 'October of 1917'

Participant: Book author, State Duma education and science committee head V. Nikonov

1 p.m. Roundtable

Subject: Russia and U.S. and Russia and NATO. New coil of tensions?

Participants: Experts

2 p.m. Presentation

Subject: National ranking of investment attractiveness of special economic zones in Russia

Participants: Deputy Economic Development Minister S. Shipov and others

Venue: Economic Development Minister (3/1, Krasnaya Presnya ulitsa)

Phone: +7 (916) 904-89-92

E-mail: gromovai@economy.gov.ru

2.30 p.m. Meeting of Chamber of Commerce and Industry's commission for financial markets

Subject: Regulation of cryptocurrencies emission and circulation in digital economy

Venue: Chamber of Commerce and Industry (6/1, Ilyinka ulitsa)

Phone: +7 (495) 620-02-87

E-mail: polokhindv@tpprf.ru

3 p.m. Joint meeting of State Duma commission for legislative support to defense companies development and League of Assisting Defense Companies defense industry committee

Subject: New norms in sphere of state defense order

Participants: Head of State Duma commission for legislative support to defense companies development V. Gutenev, Military Industry Commission deputy head O. Bochkaryov, Federal Antimonopoly Service deputy chief M. Ovchinnikov and others

Venue: Rosoboronexport (27, Stromynka ulitsa)

Phone: +7 (917) 538-33-30

E-mail: press@soyuzmash.ru

3 p.m. Meeting of Natural Resources Ministry's public council

Subject: Draft strategy of developing Russia's mineral base up to 2030

Participants: Natural Resources Minister S. Donskoi, Rosnedra chief Ye. Kiselyov

Venue: Natural Resources Ministry (4/6, Bolshaya Gruzinskaya ulitsa)

Phone: +7 (499) 254-82-61

E-mail: shipova@mnr.gov.ru

3 p.m. Rally

Subject: 100th anniversary of October Revolution

Organizer: Communist Party

Venue: Pushkinskaya square

E-mail: press-sluzhba@kprf.ru

3.30 p.m. One Belt - One Path forum

Venue: Public Chamber (7 Miusskaya Ploshchad)

Participants: D. Kiris, deputy chairman of the PC commission for cultural development and preservation of spiritual legacy

Tel.: +7 (495) 221-83-61.

5 p.m. Opening ceremony

Subject: Picturesque Russia exhibition

Venue: Zurab Tsereteli Museum (19 Ulitsa Prechistenka)

Tel.: +7 (495) 637-25-69; 637-47-71; e-mail: rah1757@yandex.ru.

6:30 p.m. Meeting with A. Shchipkov, the Russian Orthodox Church's synodal department for liaising with society and media, advisor to Duma speaker and a Russian Public Chamber member

Subject: Revolution and tradition

Tel.: +7 (495) 915-58-70.

7 p.m. Presentation

Subject: Series of book dedicated to 100th anniversary of Russian Revolution

Participants: Public Chamber secretary V. Fadeyev and others

Venue: Media-loft of Russian Academy of National Economy and Public Administration (11, Prechistenskaya naberezhnaya)

Phone: +7 (499) 956-99-69, +7 (903) 788-38-02

E-mail: press@ranepa.ru

2 p.m. Accreditation ends to events due at Federation Council (26, Bolshaya Dmitrovka ulitsa, e-mail: 6921877@mail.ru) on November 8:

10 a.m. Plenary session

11 a.m. Speech

Subject: Prospects for EAEU development

Speaker: EAEU board chairman T. Sarkisyan

Noon Government hour

Subject: Report on adjustment of state budget parameters for 2018-2019

Speaker: Finance Minister A. Siluanov

12.30 p.m. Expert hour

Speaker: Writer D. Bykov

7 p.m. Premiere of the "Firebird" hip-hop dance show (based on I. Stravinsky's ballet)

Venue: Moscow International House of Music (52/8 Kosmodamianskaya Naberezhnaya)

Tel.: +7 (495) 730-43-59; e-mail: press@mmdm.ru.

4 p.m. A session of the commission for culture and mass communications

Venue: Moscow City Duma (15/29, bldg. 2 Strastnoi boulevard)

Agenda includes: a draft Moscow law on the city budge for 2018 and the prospective period of 2019-2020

Tel.: +7 (495) 623-18-84; e-mail: akkred@duma.mos.ru.

November 7-9: Moscow International Fitness & Wellness Festival

Venue: VDNKh (pavillion 75)

Tel.: +7 (495) 789-49-01, ext.168; e-mail: mioff@rte-expo.ru.

3 p.m. Gala concert of the 8th "Zelyonaya Kareta" (Green Carriage) international bard song festival of young children and people dedicated to Russia's Year of Ecology

Venue: Podmoskovye Palace of Culture (3 Ulitsa Lenina, Krasnogorsk, Moscow region)

Tel.: +7 (919) 775-43-74; +7 (925) 322-46-32; e-mail: zkareta2017@mail.ru.

11 a.m. Accreditation ends for the public hearings on the popularization of breast-feeding, due at the Public Chamber (7/1 Miusskaya Ploshchad) at 11 a.m. on November 8

Participants: academician L. Bokeriya, head of the PC commission for public health and health care development, president of the Nation's Health League; federal, regional and local health officials and parliamentarians; medical professionals, public figures, etc.

Tel.: +7 (985) 304-07-11; +7 (985) 304-07-11; e-mail: kovalev@znopr.ru.

2 p.m. Accreditation ends for the Federation Council (26 Ulitsa Bolshaya Dmitrovka) session due at 10 a.m. on November 8. Agenda: ratification of the EAEU customs code agreement; CIS agreement on the cooperation in emergency prevention and response; debating changes to the Civil, Budget, Tax and Family and Administrative Offenses' Codes. 11 a.m.: chairman of the EAEU collegium T. Sargsyan will tell of the Union's development prospects. Noon: Finance Minister A. Siluanov will present a report with updated parameters of the federal budget for 2017 and the projected 2018-2019 period; 12:30 p.m.: Expert's Time with writer D. Bykov. Session starts at 10 a.m. E-mail: 6921877@mail.ru.

3 p.m. Accreditation ends for the coverage of the opening of an exhibition of the best national manufacturers, due to be held at the Federation Council (26 Ulitsa BOlshaya Dmitrovka) at 9.30 a.m. on November 8. Attendees: Federation Council speaker V. Matviyenko; Ministry of Industry and Trade D. Manturov; Russian Quality System director M.Protasov; regional government heads. The event is being held as part of the World Quality Week. After a tour of the exhibition, the best national food and drink will be awarded with the Russian quality mark. E-mail: 6921877@mail.ru.

5 p.m. Accreditation ends for an enlarged session of the import-substitution expert council of the State Dum Committee for economic policy, industry, innovative development and enterprise, to be chaired by the committee's deputy chairman D.Kravchenko. The event is due to be held at Technopolis Moscow (42/5 Volgogradsky Prospekt) at 12:45 p.m. on November 8. attendees: D. Tsukanov, deputy director of the department of Regional industrial policy and project management at the Ministry of Industry and Trade; D. Nikitin, deputy director of the Ministry's department of machinery and investment machine-building; A. Shpilenko, Director of the Association of Clusters and Technology Parks and a member of the Ministry's strategic council for investment in new industries; A. Zhiganov, Roscosmos Executive Director for space activity; D. Pudkov, Roscosmos Director for liaising with suppliers and production streamlining; A. Gasyak, UMATEX international cluster's director for development; I. Volynsky, Astrakhan region's deputy minister of industry, transport and natural resources; and others

Tel: +7 (985) 619-19-49; e-mail: pr@akitrf.ru.

7 p.m. Accreditation ends to press conference

Subject: Coup in Ukraine. Myths and reality

Time: Noon on November 8

Speakers: Former Ukrainian Prime Minister, head of Ukraine Salvation Committee M. Azarov and others

Venue: Komsomolskaya Pravda publishing house (1/23, Stary Petrovsko-Razumovsky proyezd)

Phone: +7 (495) 786-67-88, +7 (495) 665-75-31

E-mail: media@phkp.ru

In Russia and worldwide:

Russia marks the centenary of the October 1917 revolution.

Russian Day of Accord and Reconciliation.

St. Petersburg,

Festival

Subject: 100th anniversary of October Revolution

Participants: Deputy Culture Minister V. Aristarkhov, ombudsman T, Moskalkova and others

St. Petersburg,

Admiralty Shipyard to lay down a commemorative stone for the Russian shipbuilders who worked during Revolution and Civil War.

Samara,

A reconstruction of a 1941 military parade.

Nizhny Novgorod,

A district court to continue hearing an administrative protocol against Navalny's local campaign chief L. Volkov who is accused of a repeat violation of the rules for holding public rallies.

Arkhangelsk,

November 7-10: Award ceremony

Subject: Tefi-Region prize on entertainment broadcast nomination

Astana (Kazakhstan),

Court to hear criminal case against former Kazakh National Economy Minister K. Bishimbayev charged with bribery

Kyrgyzstan,

November 7-8: Day of history and memory of ancestors

WEDNESDAY, November 8, 2017

In Moscow:

Events due at Federation Council (26, Bolshaya Dmitrovka ulitsa, e-mail: 6921877@mail.ru):

10 a.m. Plenary session

11 a.m. Speech

Subject: Outlook for EAEU development

Speaker: EAEU board chairman T. Sarkisyan

Noon Government hour

Subject: Report on adjustment of state budget parameters for 2018-2019

Speaker: Finance Minister A. Siluanov

12.30 p.m. Expert hour

Speaker: Writer D. Bykov

10 a.m. Plenary session

Venue: State Duma (1, Okhotny Ryad ulitsa)

10 a.m. Opening ceremony

Subject: National Mining Forum

Participants: A Just Russia party leader and S. Mironov Deputy Energy Minister A. Yanovsky, Deputy Industry and Trade Minister V. Osmakov, Chamber of Commerce and Industry Vice President D. Kurochkin, and others

Venue: Chamber of Commerce and Industry (6/1, Ilyinka ulitsa)

Phone: +7 (916) 123-81-37

E-mail: rosgorprom2016@yandex.ru

Events due at Rossiya Segodnya news agency (4, Zubovsky boulevard, phone: +7 (495) 645-64-72; e-mail: accreditation@rian.ru):

10 a.m. Press conference

Subject: Promotion of Yekaterinburg as candidate city to host Expo 2025

Speakers: Deputy Prime Minister A. Dvorkovich, Sverdlovsk region governor Ye. Kuivashev and others

Phone: +7 (962) 985-53-33

E-mail: vasilyeva@exporussia2025.com, media@exporussia2025.com

11 a.m. Press conference

Subject: 100th anniversary of October Revolution, Russia and World. Russia and Britain?

Speakers: Politics First editor-in-chief M. Papadopoulos, European Law department deputy head at MGIMO (University) N. Topornin

10.30 a.m. Panel discussion

Subject: Middle East and Russian-Turkish relations. Middle East: Global and Regional Forces

Participants: Experts

Venue: Moskovsky Komsomolets press center (7, Ulitsa 1905 Goda)

Phone: +7(499) 390-08-91

E -mail: info@mirnas.ru

11 a.m. Public hearing

Subject: Preservation of breast feeding

Venue: Public Chamber (7/1, Miusskaya square)

Speakers: Russian Academy of Sciences member Leo Bokeria, Russian Health Ministry officials, officials from State Duma health protection committee, Federation Council science, culture, education, healthcare and environment committee, Moscow government health department, representatives of medical clinics and associations, civil society

Phone: +7 (985) 304-07-11

E-mail: kovalev@znopr.ru

Noon Press conference

Subject: Coup in Ukraine. Myths and reality

Speakers: Former Ukrainian Prime Minister, head of Ukraine Salvation Committee M. Azarov and others

Venue: Komsomolskaya Pravda publishing house (1/23, Stary Petrovsko-Razumovsky proyezd bldg. 1)

Phone: +7 (495) 786-67-88, +7 (495) 665-75-31

E-mail: media@phkp.ru

2 p.m. Press conference

Subject: Start of winter season in Moscow parks

Speakers: Moscow Culture Department chief A. Kibovsky and others

Venue: Tass news agency (2, Tverskoi boulevard)

Phone: +7 (499) 791-03-87, +7 (903) 284-25-41

Nov 8-9: 'Exploration and Production' Russian oil and gas summit

Venue: InterContinental hotel (22, Tverskaya ulitsa)

E-mail: info@ensoenergy.org.

Nov 8-9: 'Denkmal, Russia - Moscow 2017' international exhibition

Culture Ministry to present best works by Russian restorers in two past years

Venue: Gostiny Dvor exhibition center (4, Ilyinka ulitsa)

Phones: +7 (925) 820-99-55; +7 (495) 678-42-73

E-mail: onocpp@gmail.com

Moscow City Court to consider appeal against arrest of former Naftogaz Ukrainy chief I. Bakai charged with large-scale fraud

Zamoskvoretsky District Court to continue trying criminal case against former Economic Development Minister A. Ulyukayev

2 p.m. Roundtable

Subject: Sleep disorders: what symptoms require visiting a doctor?

Speakers: doctors, medical researchers, clinical pharmacologists

Venue: AiF press center (42, Myasnitskaya ulitsa)

Phones: +7 (916) 235-00-20; +7 (495) 252-02-90

3 p.m. Press conference

Subject: What impact will the new law have on the quality and safety of children's foods?

Speakers: Federation Council agriculture policy committee chairman M. Schetinin and others

Venue: Parlamentskaya Gazeta press center (28, Pervaya Yamskogo Polya ulitsa)

Phones: +7 (495) 637-69-79; +7 (917) 540-19-24

E-mail: n.stukova@pnp.ru

7 p.m. Concert

Artist: a capella group Take 6 (U.S.) as part of 35-th anniversary world tour

Venue: Moscow International House of Music (52, Kosmodamianskaya Naberezhnaya, bldg.8)

4 p.m. Accreditation ends to meeting

Subject: Development of wrestling in Russia

Time: 9 a.m. on November 9

Participants: Sports Minister P. Kolobkov and others

Venue: Sports Ministry (18, Kazakova ulitsa)

Phone: +7 (495) 925-35-40, +7 (495) 995-05-42, +7 (495) 995-05-21

E-mail: pressa@minsport.gov.ru

Nov 8-9:

International agro-industrial milk forum and exhibition of milk production and milk industry equipment, organized by Moscow Region government aided by Russian Agriculture Ministry

Venue: House of Moscow Region Government (1, Stroiteley boulevard, Krasnogorsk, Moscow Region)

Phones: +7 (917) 595-41-01; e-mail: press@agromosreg.ru

In Russia and worldwide:

Segezha (Karelia),

Visit by Security Council Secretary N. Patrushev

Zheleznodorozhny (Moscow Region),

Zheleznodorozhny City Court to hand down sentence to O. Alisova, charged with killing a six-year-old child in a road accident in Balashikha

Pleadings due to open at 11:30 a.m.

Chelyabinsk,

November 8-9: Russian-Kazakh forum

Subject: Development of human capital

Participant: N. Nazarbayev

THURSDAY, November 9, 2017

In Moscow:

Events due at Federation Council (26, Bolshaya Dmitrovka ulitsa, e-mail: 6921877@mail.ru):

3 p.m. Roundtable

Subject: Future of parliamentary diplomacy. Challenges and opportunities

Participants: Federation Council foreign affairs committee head K. Kosachyov

3 p.m. Meeting

Subject: Legislative support to developing logistics infrastructure in Russia's Arctic zone

3 p.m. Roundtable

Subject: Role of Russian Fundamental Studies Foundation in supporting scientific projects aimed at socio-economic development of Russian regions

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

10 a.m. Roundtable

Subject: Development of electric grids in Russia

Participants: Deputy Energy Minister V. Kravchenko, Rosseti CEO P. Livinsky

Phone: +7 (495) 692-30-37

E-mail: morozova@duma.gov.ru

2 p.m. Meeting of State Duma security and anticorruption committee

4 p.m. Accreditation ends to meeting

Subject: Development of wrestling in Russia

Time: 9 a.m. on November 9

Participants: Sports Minister P. Kolobkov and others

Venue: Sports Ministry (18, Kazkova ulitsa)

Phone: +7 (495) 925-35-40, +7 (495) 995-05-42, +7 (495) 995-05-21

E-mail: pressa@minsport.gov.ru

10 a.m. Conference

Subject: Protection of personal data

Venue: Rossiya Segodnya news agency (4, Zubovsky boulevard)

Phone: +7 (495) 587-43-46 (ext.: 170)

E-mail: press@rkn.gov.ru

Meeting of United Russia General Council presidium

Subject: Setting up date for United Russia pre-electoral congress

Venue: United Russia headquarters (39, Kutuzovsky prospekt)

All-Russian conference

Subject: 'Revenue Assurance, Fraud, InfoSecurity & Risk Management'

Venue: Marriott Moscow Grand Hotel (26/1, Tverskaya ulitsa)

Phones: +7 (495) 637-81-92; +7 (926) 409-50-74

E-mail: dg@connectica-lab.ru

In Russia and worldwide:

No announcement yet available

FRIDAY, November 10, 2017

In Moscow:

10 a.m. Meeting of working group

Subject: Improvements needed in Russian laws on consumer rights protection

Venue: Federation Council (26, Bolshaya Dmitrovka)

Participants: Federation Council economic policy committee deputy chairman V. Timchenko (moderator) and others

E-mail: 6921877@mail.ru

11 a.m. Roundtable

Subject: Export potential of Russia's jewelry industry

Participants: Industry and Trade Minister D. Manturov, Russian Export Center general director P. Fradkov and others

Venue: World Trade Center (12, Krasnopresnenskaya naberezhnaya)

Phone: +7 (981) 860-15-72, +7 (915) 405-72-36

E-mail: press@rjexpert.ru

11 a.m. All-Russia Athletics Federation (ARAF) Conference to hear annual reports, discuss ARAF participation in new arbitration court for sport at Russian Olympic Committee as a co-founder

Press invited for official photo session, media scrums after conference

Venue: Russian Olympic Committee (8, Luzhnetskaya naberezhnaya)

Phone: +7 (915) 498-19-03

E-mail: yukhareva@mail.ru

Nikulinsky District Court to consider lawsuit from Prosecutor General's Office that asks court to forfeit property of former Russian Interior Ministry officer Col. D. Zakharchenko, charged with corruption, in favor of the State

In Russia and worldwide:

Throughout Russia,

Russian Internal Affairs Officer Day celebrations

St. Petersburg, Nov 10-19:

Golden Turtle Festival of wild nature

SATURDAY, November 11, 2017

In Moscow:

Traffic diversion, parking restrictions on Khamovniki district streets during all day due to big football match at Luzhniki Grand Sports Arena (Luzhniki Stadium)

4 p.m.

Russia to play Argentina in a football friendly as the opening event at renovated Luzhniki Grand Sports Arena after upgrading

Venue: 24, Luzhnetskaya naberezhnaya

In Russia and worldwide:

St. Petersburg, Nov 11-15

Visiting performances of People's Artist of Russia S. Solovyov's Acting and Directing Workshop

Venue: Tovstonogov Bolshoi Drama Theater

SUNDAY, November 12, 2017

In Moscow:

Nov 12-15

CONTEXT. Diana Vishneva, international festival of modern choreography

Phone: +7 (904) 608-23-21

E-mail: olga@sarafun.spb.ru

In Russia and worldwide:

No announcement yet available