Ravil Muratov: Preparatory work for autumn draft fulfilled
3 October 2011, Monday
Preparatory work for autumn draft for RF armed forces has been fulfilled, Acting Prime Minister Ravil Muratov stated at a session of RT Draft committee.
The session took place at the House of RT Government.
Ravil Muratov is sure that tasks set by the Russian President on training and sending citizens to military service this autumn will be successfully realized. The order was given to the executives of Tatarstan universities to decide on military units and establish relationships with them. Ravil Muratov recommended taking into consideration those professions guys study at the universities upon choosing military units.
Military commissar Sergei Pogodin reported on results of spring draft current year and defined tasks for autumn draft. Thus, 5600 people were sent to the service in spring. More than 28 000 draftees were called for draft commissions, 99,5 % of them were present. Law enforcement bodies will deal with others who did not come, Sergei Pogodin emphasized.
Sergei Pogodin put much emphasis on health state of draftees. It so happened that doctors had to reexamine 772 people during the spring draft. As a result, at the collecting point 11 draftees were found to use drugs and were sent to prophylactic examination.
Speaking about autumn draft Military commissar informed that 5000 guys from Tatarstan will be sent to RF Armed forces by December, 31.
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