Rustam Minnikhanov meets with Ombudsman on children rights to RF President Pavel Astakhov

Ombudsman on children rights to RF President Pavel Astakhov has arrived in Tatarstan with the inspection visit. He came to Kazan from the Chuvash Republic where he had got acquainted with work of children's homes, orphanages and special medical institutions.

We remind by and large Pavel Astakhov has already visited 70 regions of the country.

At today’s meeting with the Tatarstan President Rustam Minnikhanov Pavel Astakhov touched upon issues of ensuring children’s rights, problems of social orphanhood, cases of children suicide and rendering psychological help to children and juveniles.

In the event took part Deputy PM Zilya Valeeva, Aide to RT President on social issues Tatyana Larionova, Ombudsman on children rights in RT Guzel Udachina.

Pavel Astakhov has come to Tatarstan for the first time. The itinerary of his visit includes visits to special school for children and juveniles with deviant behavior (Levchenko), Republican special children’s home (Yamashev str, 88a), Kazan boarding school № 4 with ICP (Zarya str, 11), Privolzhsky children’s home of Kazan (Agronomicheskaya str, 14) and other objects.

Pavel Astakhov will also held a meeting with heads of representatives and executive state and municipal authorities of RT and chiefs of territorial executive authorities of Russia on RT in RT Government House in format of video conference. Upon completion of the meeting Pavel Astakhov is expected to answer questions of mass media.