Rustam Minnikhanov meets with CEO of Association of innovative regions of Russia Ivan Bortnik
3 April 2012, Tuesday
President of the Republic of Tatarstan Rustam Minnikhanov has met with CEO of the Association of innovative regions of Russia Ivan Bortnik. The meeting was held in RT Government House with participation of RT Minister of economy Midkhat Shagiakhmetov and Aide to RT President Anatoly Krasnov.
The parties shared opinions about the strategy of further development of the Association of innovative regions of Russia, discussed innovative development of Russia in general and subjects of the federation in particular.
To the point, memorandum on creation of interregional Association of innovative regions of Russia was signed at XIII innovative forum in Tomsk in May 2010.
Today the Association of innovative regions of Russia comprises eight subjects of the federation (Irkutsk oblast, Kaluga oblast, Tomsk oblast, Novosibirsk oblast, Krasnoyarsk krai, Perm krai, the Republic of Mordovia, the Republic of Tatarstan), Academy of national economy at RF Government and the Russian corporation of nanotechnologies.
A regular session of the Supervision council of the general meeting of the Association of innovative regions of Russia will be held on April 5 in Moscow.
Read more about the Association of innovative regions of Russia http://www.i-regions.org/
On 24 April Tatarstan Prime-Minister Aleksey Pesoshin took part in a meeting of the Council of Mendeleevsk municipal region of the republic where the Head of the region Radmir Belyayev informed that he was leaving his position as he will continue his work in local self-government bodies of Nizhnekamsk region.
On 15 April, speaking at a briefing in the Government House of the republic, the Tatarstan First Deputy Minister of Ecology and Natural Resources Ilnur Gubaydullin informed that 268 illegal waste dumps have been revealed since the beginning of the two-months cleaning campaign which started on 1 April of the current year as a support to the national project “Ecological Wellbeing”.
On 13 April in his address to residents of the republic on the occasion of the Maecenas and Benefactor Day, Tatarstan Prime Minister Aleksey Pesoshin wrote: “Today Russia is celebrating an important and meaningful holiday - the Maecenas and Benefactor Day which is the symbol of the recognition and respect of those who demonstrate generosity and bounty making the world a better place.
On 10 April in the zero day of the Russian Venture Forum moderated by the Director of the Association of Innovative regions of Russia Aleksandr Smekalin and with participation of 1000 people, including experts, investors, representatives of startups and venture funds, large corporations and development institutions, Tatarstan Deputy Prime Minister Roman Shaykhutdinov took part in a plenary discussion “The role of regional clusters and economic zones in shaping a venture deals flow”, where its participants discussed factors influencing the venture investments market, the role of key market players in stimulating the investments activity and the most efficient measures of state support in this sphere.