Company – designer of Euro-2012 offers its services for Universiade branding
19 June 2012, Tuesday
One of the world’s leaders in the sphere of brand creation and exterior design of sport events - Icon company offers its services in the context of preparation for Universiade 2013. The company’s officials have made a presentation for the Tatarstan President Rustam Minnikhanov.
Director of the Department for external relations under the RT President – Aide to RT President Iskander Muflikhanov, Mayor of Kazan Ilsur Metshin, Minister of youth affairs, sport and tourism Rafis Burganov, Minister of construction, architecture, housing and utilities Irek Faizullin, Chief of Executive office of Universiade-2013 Vladimir Leonov watched the presentation at the RT Government House.
According to the Icon’s Managing Director Mark Savage, the company is one of the world’s leaders in the sphere of creation and promotion of brands of sport events. Icon deals with exterior design of sport buildings, cities and organization of sport events.
The company’s portfolio includes such events as the Football Champions League, forthcoming Olympic Games in London and Euro-2012, Mark Savage informed.
Icon offers services for Kazan as the city to host World summer Universiade 2013.
Rustam Minnikhanov thanked the company’s officials for presentation and suggested discussing issues of cooperation with ministers and top managers of Executive office of Universiade-2013.
“You are the internationally recognized company and we are interested in your activity. On the other hand, Kazan may attract you as a place to display yourself in the Russian market. Let us combine our interests and our cooperation will be successful,” the Tatarstan President addressed officials of the Icon company.
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.
On 28 March, speaking at a meeting held by Tatarstan Prime Minister Aleksey Pesoshin in the Government House of the republic with participation of the Acting Chairman of the State Council of the republic Marat Akhmetov and all municipalities taking part in it via videoconference, the regional Minister of Ecology and Natural Resources Azat Ziganshin informed that the regional central cleaning up action will be held in the republic on 25 April and clarified that the location of the national cleanup day will be announced later as the site will be chosen taking into account the opinions of Tatarstan residents.