Rustam Minnikhanov meets with president of SAP EMEA Frank Cohen
27 July 2012, Friday
The Tatarstan President Rustam Minnikhanov has met with president of SAP EMEA Frank Cohen (Europe, the Middle East and Africa) at the RT Government House.
The parties discussed a number of issues, in particular, cooperation in the sphere of decisions for the republican state sector (management for emergency situations, educational sphere, strategic management of the region, proposals on support and development of small and medium-size business).
Welcoming guests, Rustam Minnikhanov reminded that Russia had joined WTO and it requires compliance with all global standards.
Frank Cohen noted that SAP had long been working with the Tatarstan enterprises and the region is known for high level of automatization and wide development of innovations. “We are ready to work with republic on the highest level, we will involve best specialists from SAP CIS, our European colleagues, international experts, SAP Labs and Skolkovo resources,” Frank Cohen said. He informed that in the nearest time the company is going to invest in innovative projects of republic.
The meeting was attended by Ishkhan Kazinyan, Deputy Director General of SAP CIS, and Anton Tataurov, Director for interaction with state authorities of SAP CIS.
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