President of Tatarstan Rustam Minnikhanov makes working visit to Singapore and Australia from September 25 to 29
24 September 2011, Saturday
From 25 to 29 September of 2011, President of Tatarstan Rustam Minnikhanov is on a working visit to Singapore and Australia.
From 25 to 26 September head of Tatarstan takes part in a work of the Russian-Singapore business forum -2011. This year the forum is aimed at discussing possibilities of developing traditional and new emerging markets. One of the sessions is devoted to discussing the trends in fast developing region Greater China Growth Area – this zone covers Eastern and South-Eastern Asia.
Among the speakers at the Russia-Singapore forum are RF Sberbank general director German Gref, Troika Dialogue group of companies board chairman Ruben Vardanyan and President of Tatarstan Rustam Minnikahnov.
From September 27 to 28 Rustam Minnikhanov will stay in Australia where the number of business meetings is scheduled. In particular, meeting with representatives of Tatar Diaspora is planned likewise.
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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