Rustam Minnikhanov visits Udmurt school in Baltasi region
8 February 2012, Wednesday
RT President Rustam Minnikhanov has visited a secondary school in a village Malye Lyzi within his working trip to Baltasi and Kukmor regions of Tatarstan Republic.
Being located in the village with mainly Udmurt population Malye -Lyzinsky school has got a national status and is named after famous Udmurt writer Grigory Medvedev.
Tatarstan President Rustam Minnikhanov looked in classes and spoke to pupils. Head of Republic noted though it is the Udmurt school pupils and teachers speak Tatar well. It is a good example for all national schools in Tatarstan, Rustam Minnikhanov believes.
Rustam Minnikhanov also met with veterans of Great Patriotic War living in Baltasi region and looked over an exhibition of agricultural enterprises of the region in Central house of culture. Later on RT President took part in a session of the Council of Baltasi municipal region of the Republic.
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.