Agreements of intent signed by ANO “Executive office “Kazan 2013”, “EF CIS”, “Fitness Alliance” and “Forward” companies
6 July 2012, Friday
Agreements of intent have been signed by ANO “Executive office “Kazan 2013”, “English First CIS”, “Fitness Alliance” and “Forward” companies at the Kazan Kremlin. The Tatarstan President Rustam Minnikhanov took part in the signing ceremony.
Welcoming guests, - partners of Universiade 2013, Rustam Minnikhanov reminded that signing of agreements is held on a significant day - one year is left till the World summer universiade 2013 in Kazan.
According to Rustam Minnikhanov, Russia will host significant sport events in the nearest years – winter Olympic Games in Sochi 2014, World aquatics championship 2015, World football championship 2018.
As for preparation and holding summer Universiade 2013, it requires serious efforts on the part of federal and republican authorities. Major efforts are being taken, the pool of companies – Universiade partners has been formed (they are Megafon, McDonalds, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Hyundai).
Further, agreements of intent were signed by Director General of ANO “Executive office “Kazan 2013”Vladimir Leonov and Director General of “EF language solutions in Russia and CIS” Eduard Baldakov, Director General of OOO “Trade House “Forward” Alexandr Amzayants, and Director of fitness centers network “Planet Fitness” Ivan Voitko.
FISU first Vice-president, president of Russian student sport union Oleg Matytsin, Mayor of Kazan Ilsur Metshin attended the event.
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.
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 regional and the Acting Chairman of the State Council of the republic Marat Akhmetov and all municipalities taking part in it via videoconference, the regional Deputy Minister of Construction, Architecture and Housing Utilities Sector Damir Shaydullin informed about statistics on the collection of utility bills payments from the population and data on the payment discipline of enterprises and organizations of the republic.