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.
In his address on the occasion of the Russian Science Day, Tatarstan Prime Minister Aleksey Pesoshin congratulated scientists, researchers and lecturers of the republic with the event and wrote: “Science has always been and remains one of the main driving forces of progress and foundation for the development of economy, social sphere and education. Due to your talent, work and dedication to your vocation Tatarstan occupies the leading positions in many scientific spheres starting from petrochemical and IT technologies to biotechnologies and materials engineering. Today, based on glorious traditions of Russian and Tatarstan scientists, you are making a substantial contribution into ensuring scientific and technological sovereignty of Russia and solve the most important tasks of import replacement, digitalization and sustainable development.
On February 3, Tatarstan Prime Minister Aleksey Pesoshin took part in a ceremony of opening XXI All-Russia competitions in fire-rescue sports for the Cup of the Tatarstan Prime Minister, held in the gym of the Chief Department of the Russian Emergencies Ministry for Tatarstan with participation of 21 teams from various regions of Russia - a total of about 430 people.
On 31 January, speaking at a meeting held by the Rais (Head) of Tatarstan Rustam Minnikhanov in the Government House of the republic with participation of the regional Prime Minister Aleksey Pesoshin and all municipality regions taking part in it via videoconference, the regional Deputy Minister of Construction, Architecture and Housing Utilities Sector Damir Shaydullin reported that capital overhaul of nine school in eight municipalities of the republic has started.
On 28 January Tatarstan Prime Minister Aleksey Pesoshin took part in an extended joint meeting of the Main Directorate of Russian Emergencies Ministry for Tatarstan and a collegium of the Ministry for Civil Defense, Emergency Management and Natural Disaster Response of the republic which summarized results of work of the territorial subsystem of the unified state system for the prevention and elimination of emergency situations of the republic in 2025 and set tasks for 2026.
In his keyword report the Head of the Main Directorate Irek Kadamov informed that there were 3 758 man-caused fires in the republic which killed 128 people and injured 177. Through joint efforts, we have managed to reduce the number of man-caused fires by more than 10%, the number of injured by 12 per cent, however the number of killed increased by 13 people, he said.