Results of 5th contest of social and cultural projects of Lukoil Foundation summarized in Kazan
25 September 2014, Thursday
On September 25, results of the 5th contest of social and cultural projects of Lukoil Fund were summarized in Kazan. Tatarstan President Rustam Minnikhanov, Tatarstan State Counsellor Mintimer Shaimiev, President of OAO Lukoil Vagit Alekperov, Board Chairman of OAO Lukoil and OAO Ritek Valery Graifer, Director General of OAO Ritek Nikolay Nikolaev took part in the event.
About 800 organizations and public associations applied for participation in the contest this year. The contest commission selected 147 projects.
Vagit Alekperov said that the contest is aimed at supporting social projects and increasing transparency of their realization. He thanked Tatarstan leadership for support and congratulated participants of the contest.
Rustam Minnikhanov, in his turn, thanked Lukoil Foundation and Ritek company and personally Vagit Alekperov. Then, Rustam Minnikhanov and Vagit Alekperov handed prizes and diplomas to participants of the contest.
Tatarstan State Counsellor Mintimer Shaimiev, Board Chairman of OAO Lukoil and Ritek Valery Graifer handed in awards to the winners, authors of cultural projects. Valery Graifer said that the intellectual level is very high in Tatarstan, and Lukoil has got many social projects to be released.
Mintimer Shaimiev said, in his turn, that it is a wonderful event connected with efficient activity realized by Lukoil company in Tatarstan. "People like that your production and social activity is aimed at people's wellbeing," he said and thanked company executives for long-term friendship and cooperation.
Director General of OAO Ritek Nikolay Nikolaev handed diplomas to the winners.
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