RT President inspects course of construction of the Kazanka embankment
9 May 2012, Wednesday
Prospects of development of the Kazanka embankment have been discussed at a visiting meeting held by the Tatarstan President Rustam Minnikhanov.
Head of republic accompanied by Mayor of Kazan Ilsur Metshin and Minister of construction, architecture and housing Irek Faizullin visited the construction site on the left bank of the Kazanka river near Kremlin, Universiade media center and Palace of water sports under construction.
The development concept of the Kazanka left bank which implies construction of a variety of objects was presented to President of republic. Rustam Minnikhanov noted that development of the embankment by Universiade 2013 is a priority task.
Universiade Media center will be located on the Kazanka right bank near the publishing house. Rustam Minnikhanov acquainted with course of works and gave a few assignments on speeding up construction.
Development of the embankment is also included in the project of the Palace of water sports and football stadium for 45000 seats.
On 18 May ay the CIPR conference in Nizhniy Nogorod the Tatarstan Deputy Prime Minister Roman Shaykhutdinov, the Rector of the Innopolis University Aleksandr Gasnikpov and the Vice-rector of the University Yevgeny Bobrov will take part at round tables session of the conference.
Experts will discuss the role of Tatarstan and Innopolis as one of the key technological centers of the country and how regional innovative platforms help to solve tasks of the whole Russian industry. A special emphasis will be placed on the digital transformation of the oil and gas sector and how large clusters and scientific and technological centers are becoming drivers of industry change.
On 16 May, speaking at a meeting in the Government House of the republic held by the regional Prime Minister Aleksey Pesoshin with participation of the Rais (Head) of Tatarstan Rustam Minnikhanov and all municipalities taking part in it via videoconference, the Minister of Agriculture and Food of the republic Marat Zyabbarov reported that the sowing of spring crops is in full swing in the republic with 1m 38 thousand hectares or 61 per cent of the planned have been sown.
On May 14, on the sidelines of the XVII International Economic Forum “Russia-the Islamic World: KazanForum”, Tatarstan Prime Minister Aleksey Pesoshin and Head of the Federal Service for Accreditation Dmitry Volvach signed an agreement on interaction and cooperation in the development of the halal industry.
On May 14, Prime Minister of Tajikistan Kokhir Rasulzoda, who arrived on a working visit in Kazan to take part in the events of the XVII International Economic Forum “Russia-the Islamic World: KazanForum”, was met by Prime Minister of the republic Aleksey Pesoshin and other officials at the Kazan International Airport.