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