Rustam Minnikhanov meets with chief of Bombardier company
16 August 2012, Thursday
President of Tatarstan Rustam Minnikhanov and Vice President of Asset Management at Bombardier Rod Sheridan have discussed issues of mutually beneficial cooperation. The meeting took place at the RT Government House with participation of Tatarstan’s Prime Minister Ildar Khalikov, Minister of industry and trade Ravil Zaripov, and others.
Rustam Minnikhanov noted that Tatarstan had become one of the regional service platforms of Bombardier. The authorized service center of the Canadian engineering company opened on the territory of TulparTechnic.
“Opening of such a center means that you have serious intentions and we need to develop our relationships,” Rustam Minnikhanov said. He thanked Bombardier management for cooperation saying he is sure that new center will service the Bombardier aircraft park with a high level of reliability and quality.
Rod Sheridan made a short presentation for attendees of the meeting, told about new aircrafts, use of composite materials in their production and prospects of the Russian aviation market. In particular, he noted that cooperation with “Ak Bars aero” is efficiently developing.
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