Rustam Minnikhanov takes part in business lunch within the framework of St.Petersburg international economic forum
21 June 2012, Thursday
President of the Republic of Tatarstan Rustam Minnikhanov has attended a business lunch organized by Sberbank and World economic forum in St.Petersburg.
The event was held in hotel Astoria in the context of the St.Petersburg international economic forum (June 21-23, 2012).
To the point, the Tatarstan delegation led by Rustam Minnikhanov is in St.Petersburg to take part in the forum.
Chairman of Sberbank Board German Gref was moderator at the business lunch. The theme named “Old agenda of the new government…prospects for success?” was chosen for discussion.
The organizer and the president of the World economic forum Klaus Schwab addressed the audience with welcoming speech.
During the business lunch federal ministers, businessmen and regional government officials discussed issues of state management, current tasks faced by new Russian government, provision of maximum possible growth of citizens’ prosperity, inflation processes in economy, corruption problems, development of transport infrastructure, etc.
First deputy Chairman of RF Government Igor Shuvalov was present at the event.
On 9 May Tatarstan Prime Minister Aleksey Pesoshin took part in a ceremony of laying flowers to the monument “The victorious soldier” dedicated to the celebrations of the Day of Victory in the Great Patriotic War (WW II) 1941-1945 and held at Arsk cemetery in Kazan.
On 8 May, speaking at a meeting held by the Rais (Head) of Tatarstan Rustam Minnikhanov in the Government House of the republic with participation of the Acting Chairman of the State Council of the republic Marat Akhmetov and the regional Prime Minister Aleksey Pesoshin, the Minister of Construction, Architecture and Housing Utilities Sector of the republic Marat Ayzatullin reported that capital overhaul of social facilities is in full swing in the republic with 170 educational facilities having been included into regional and federal programmes.
On 4 May at a briefing held in the Tatarstan Government House it was told that currently there are 92 combat veterans, the last witnesses of the Great Patriotic War (WW II) of 1941-1945, living in the republic. The briefing also informed about veterans’ support measures and how the republic is planning to celebrate the Victory Day on 9 May.
The Deputy Prime Minister of the republic Leyla Fazleeva told that names of 353 Heroes of the Soviet Union from Tatarstan “ are immortalized in street names, on memorials, in monuments and squares and, of course, in our memory”. “The Victory Day is the day of memory, mourning and joy. It is the event which today should be clearly understandable to all young people and younger generation of Tatarstan,” she said.
On 24 April, upon his arrival to the Kazan International Airport, the Defense Minister of China Dong Jun was welcomed by Tatarstan Prime Minister Aleksey Pesoshin, representatives of the General Consulate of China in Kazan and other officials
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