Summer school of the Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration closed in Tatarstan
29 July 2012, Sunday
Summer school of the Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration has closed in the Verkhny Uslon region (the Republic of Tatarstan).
Prime Minister of Tatarstan Ildar Khalikov and rector of the academy Vladimir Mau attended the official closing ceremony.
264 students from 23 Russian regions took part in work of the first summer school of the Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration. The study program included classes, and cultural events. Students have also visited Kazan and republican sights.
“From 5 thousand candidates you had a unique opportunity to come here, attend lectures of interesting and prosperous people, and ask questions. I hope you will remember this place and come again,” the Tatarstan Prime Minister addressed students. He invited participants of the summer school to Universiade-2013 next year as participants and fans.
Ildar Khalikov thanked rector of the Presidential Academy Vladimir Mau for great work and confirmed that Tatarstan leadership is ready to host summer campus next year.
Rector of the Russian Academy of National Economy and Public Administration Vladimir Mau, in turn, thanked President of Tatarstan Rustam Minnikhanov, Prime Minister Ildar Khalikov for supporting the idea to organize this summer school. He stated that the academy management is willing to arrange summer campus in Tatarstan next year.
Ildar Khalikov and Vladimir Mau handed awards to winners of the summer school in several nominations.
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