Rustam Minnikhanov: We hope to form a strong deputy corps in State Duma
4 December 2011, Sunday
“We hope to form a strong deputy corps in RF State Duma”, Tatarstan President Rustam Minnikhanov stated after voting on the precinct №41 (Kazan, Karl Marx, 10).
The voting precinct №41 is located in the first building of Kazan national research technical university named after A.N.Tupolev (former Kazan aviation institute).
Rustam Minnikhanov came with his wife.
Answering journalists’ questions about tasks set before deputies of RF State Duma RT President said “we have to use our potential in full, in particular, legislative acts, which will help regions to develop, federal programs which concern every region including Tatarstan”.
2 855 voting precincts opened in Tatarstan. Traditionally voting premises are located in buildings of educational and cultural institutions, and in places of temporary stay of voters.
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
On 24 April in the Government House of the republic, Tatarstan Prime Minister Aleksey Pesoshin held a joint meeting the Council for Enforcement of Legislation of Languages of Tatarstan and the organizational committee for celebrations of the 140th birthday of Gabdulla Tukay which summarized results of work of the regional law enforcement on official languages of the republic and considered progress of the implementation of the plan of main events for preparation and celebration of the 140th birthday of Gabdulla Tukay .