Tatarstan PM takes part in meeting on development of transport complex in VFD
13 July 2012, Friday
Prime Minister of Tatarstan Ildar Khalikov is on a working trip in Samara. He has attended a meeting on development of transport complex in Volga Federal District (VFD).
Plenipotentiary of the Russian President in Volga Federal District Mikhail Babich, Russian Minister of transport Maxim Sokolov, Deputy Plenipotentiary of the Russian President in VFD, investment plenipotentiary Galina Isotova, heads of Volga regions, experts in the sphere of civil aviation took part in the meeting.
Participants of the event discussed problems of VFD transport complex and possible solutions.
Projects providing removal of infrastructure restrictions in Volga transport complex and its connection to global transport system, in particular, a pilot project of developing regional aviation in VFD were presented at the meeting.
Realization of the project of constructing international highway “Europe-Western China”, construction and reconstruction of road sections of federal significance were discussed.
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