Rustam Minnikhanov attends section “Prospects of Russia” in the context of World economic forum in Davos
26 January 2012, Thursday
Tatarstan President Rustam Minnikhanov has attended several events within the confines of World economic forum in Davos (Switzerland). We remind RT President is currently in Davos to take part in work of World economic forum (January 25-27, 2012).
Rustam Minnikhanov is accompanied by Director of Department for external relations -Aide to RT President on international issues Iskander Muflikhanov, Director general of JSC Tatneft Shafagat Takhautdinov, Director general of JSC KAMAZ Sergei Kogogin.
Officials of the Republic of Tatarstan have today attended a business lunch on behalf of Barclays Capital with participation of new governor of Colorado state John Hickenlooper.
Later on Rustam Minnikhanov and his party took part in work of section “Prospects of Russia” in the context of forum-2012.
Among participants of the discussion about the political and social-economic situation in the country in 2012 are First Vice-premier of the Russian Government Igor Shuvalov, ex- finance minister of Russia, professor of St.Petersburg university Aleksei Kudrin, EBRD President Thomas Mirow, and others.
Promotion of innovations and entrepreneurship in Russia, improvement of business climate, consolidation of business community were discussed during the session.
Today Rustam Minnikhanov is also going to meet with President of global network of firms PricewaterhouseCoupers – PwC Dennis Nelly, PwC manager for Central and Eastern Europe Michael Kubin and Managing Partner at PwC Russia David Grey.
On 12 April in his address to residents of the republic, Tatarstan Prime Minister Aleksey Pesoshin congratulated them with the Space Exploration Day and said: “April 12, 1961 has forever been inscribed into the world history as the day of triumph of the Soviet science and engineering thought. The flight of Yuriy Gagarin opened the way to the stars for the humankind and demonstrated to the whole world the might of our country.
On 4 April , speaking at a closing ceremony of the XX Russian Venture Forum held at the Kazan Expo Exhibition Center, Tatarstan Prime Minister Aleksey Pesoshin said that the Russian Venture Forum has confirmed its status of the point of attraction of technological development leaders.
The Forum created a unified scientific, technological and investment space where scientific ideas are transformed into competitive products, and startups gain access to capital and markets. Its business programme is organically integrated into the regional and federal agenda for achieving technological sovereignty and leadership of Russia, he said.
On 1 April Tatarstan Prime Minister Aleksey Pesoshin and Russian Minister of Healthcare Mikhail Murashko introduced Ayrat Farrakhov, who was appointed the Acting Rector of Kazan State Medical University (KSMU) to its staff.
In his speech Mikhail Murashko emphasized that today KSMU is rightfully considered one of the most respected in the country and said:”Ayrat (Zakievich) has been officially appointed the Acting Rector and I am sure that under his leadership the University will maintain the positions it has achieved and, of course, will continue its development.”
On 31 March in the Government House of the republic Tatarstan Deputy Prime Minister Leyla Fazleeva hold a meeting of the Commission on the Russian language under the Rais of Tatarstan, which considered key issues of supporting and developing Russian language, including new educational initiatives and discussed programmes of popularization of Russian literature and activities to preserve the language heritage.
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