Tatarstan President met with Head of Russian academy of education
11 October 2011, Tuesday
Tatarstan’s leader Rustam Minnikhanov has met with President of Russian academy of education Nikolay Nikandrov in RT Government House. Deputy minister of education and science Andrey Pominov, Chief of Department for internal policy under RT President Aleksandr Terentiev, Pro-rector of KFU (Kazan federal university) Riyaz Minzaripov attended the meeting.
Rustam Minnikhanov told Nikolay Nikandrov about scientific activity implemented in Tatarstan, in particular about developments in the sphere of nanomaterials. Head of the republic informed as well about the education development strategy being realized in Tatarstan.
Moreover, Nikolay Nikandrov and Rustam Minnikhanov discussed prospects of cooperation between Tatarstan and Russian academy of education in the sphere of professional development of the teaching staff and educational programs.
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