Rustam Minnikhanov opened charitable golf tournament for RT President Cup
20 August 2011, Saturday
The first charitable golf tournament for RT President Cup started in Verkhneuslonsky region of Tatarstan. RT President Rustam Minnikhanov took part in official opening ceremony.
First charitable golf tournament is held on the field of golf club “Kazan”. Representatives of business, authorities and political figures from Tatarstan, Moscow, and other regions of Russia and foreign countries are taking part in the tournament, - by and large 11 teams each consisted of four people. The first team from Tatarstan is led by RT President Rustam Minnikhanov.
The event is organized by group of companies "Media Art", golf store network "Golf East" and agency for sports marketing "Sportima".
Rustam Minnikhanov welcomed participants and guests of competitions. He noted that golf which has become new Olympic kind of sport is developing only in five Russian regions.
Head of republic noted that earnings from the tournament would be spent on improvement of facilities of Tatarstan basketball team of wheelchair-bound invalids. Rustam Minnikhanov handed cheque for 300 000 roubles to the team captain on behalf of participants.
After the anthems of Russia and Tatarstan The first charitable golf tournament for RT President Cup was announced open.
On 9 May Tatarstan Prime Minister Aleksey Pesoshin took part in a ceremony of laying flowers to the monument “The victorious soldier” dedicated to the celebrations of the Day of Victory in the Great Patriotic War (WW II) 1941-1945 and held at Arsk cemetery in Kazan.
On 8 May, speaking at a meeting held by the Rais (Head) of Tatarstan Rustam Minnikhanov in the Government House of the republic with participation of the Acting Chairman of the State Council of the republic Marat Akhmetov and the regional Prime Minister Aleksey Pesoshin, the Minister of Construction, Architecture and Housing Utilities Sector of the republic Marat Ayzatullin reported that capital overhaul of social facilities is in full swing in the republic with 170 educational facilities having been included into regional and federal programmes.
On 4 May at a briefing held in the Tatarstan Government House it was told that currently there are 92 combat veterans, the last witnesses of the Great Patriotic War (WW II) of 1941-1945, living in the republic. The briefing also informed about veterans’ support measures and how the republic is planning to celebrate the Victory Day on 9 May.
The Deputy Prime Minister of the republic Leyla Fazleeva told that names of 353 Heroes of the Soviet Union from Tatarstan “ are immortalized in street names, on memorials, in monuments and squares and, of course, in our memory”. “The Victory Day is the day of memory, mourning and joy. It is the event which today should be clearly understandable to all young people and younger generation of Tatarstan,” she said.
On 24 April, upon his arrival to the Kazan International Airport, the Defense Minister of China Dong Jun was welcomed by Tatarstan Prime Minister Aleksey Pesoshin, representatives of the General Consulate of China in Kazan and other officials
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