Yearbook Payment and Venue Updates

Gerard has spoken to the publisher, price is confirmed at 1060ru. However, expect around 100ru plus minus to that figure, depending on number of pages, color and quality of the paper.
Nadia will be collecting the full amount of 1060ru from you by this coming Sunday, 1st of March 2009.

It's now confirmed that the graduation hall, some decorations, inclusive of the lighting, projector, sound system, reception of the VIPs and invitation of Ambassadors from several countries will be taken care by MosLanka. Everything will be fully paid. However, a little bit of touch up like banners, balloons, ribbons, flowers and refreshment/food for parents will be on our account.

He'll be meeting up with the university reps, namely the Rector and Dean somewhere around next week to reconfirm the date before proceeding with the booking. However, he assured that if the Dean agrees to hold the graduation on the 30th June 09 (he did agree in our case), then he'll make sure that our graduation will be ON no matter what, on the above mentioned date. Tentative venue:
1) Dom Ucheni like last year or 2) РОССИЙСКАЯ АКАДЕМИЯ НАУК, in leninski prospekt.

Things to be done: requested by Dr. Saman
1) A full list of graduating students and their nationalities (so that he knows which ambassador to invite)
2) A tentative program for the day (will be taken care by Ponni)
3) A joint committee with other representatives from other countries
4) Accommodation for parents. Namelist of parents who are coming to Moscow that want to stay in our hostel. Price is 300-400ru. He can arrange for our parents to stay in another so called apartment 3 stars standard. Details minimal, but he promised that price is cheap. Not so sure about that yet.

And by the way, Dr. Saman will not be in Moscow starting around next weekend to mid April, so if you have any important question or suggestion, please do it now!