Tatarstan and Federal agency for affairs of CIS, compatriots living abroad and international humanitarian cooperation (Rossotrudnichestvo) to sign agreement on interaction
28 June 2012, Thursday
The Tatarstan President Rustam Minnikhanov has met with chief of the Federal agency for affairs of CIS, compatriots living abroad and international humanitarian cooperation Konstantin Kosachev.
Director of the Department for external relations under the RT President – Aide to RT President Iskander Muflikhanov took part in the meeting.
The parties discussed issues of international humanitarian cooperation, improvement of work with compatriots living abroad. Konstantin Kosachev noted that activity of the Federal agency for affairs of CIS, compatriots living abroad and international humanitarian cooperation is developing involving new RF subjects.
According to Iskander Muflikhanov, Tatarstan and the federal agency will sign agreement on interaction. Besides, the Federal agency for affairs of CIS, compatriots living abroad and international humanitarian cooperation is interested in attraction of creative teams from Tatarstan to perform at events organized by the agency abroad.
Iskander Muflikhanov informed that during the meeting Rustam Minnikhanov and Konstantin Kosachev discussed issues of assistance in receiving education quotas for studying at the RF higher educational institutions for the Tatar youth living abroad.
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