Rustam Minnikhanov met with Secretary General of FISU
23 August 2012, Thursday
Today RT President Rustam Minnikhanov met with Secretary General of the International University Sports Federation FISU Eric Sayntrond in Kazan. The meeting was also attended by the Mayor of Kazan Ilsur Metshin, Minister of Youth, Sports and Tourism Rafis Burganov, Minister of Construction, Architecture and Housing of the Republic Irek Faizullin, head of the Directorate of the Universiade-2013 Vladimir Leonov, the first Vice-President of FISU - President of the Russian Student Sports Union Oleg Matytsin, Director of the Summer Universiade of FISU Mark Vandenplas.
FISU delegation visits Kazan within the preparation for the next meeting of the Executive Committee of FISU, the extraordinary meeting of the General Assembly of FISU and the ceremony of awarding the best athletes of FISU Gala. At today's meeting Minnikhanov and Eric Sayntrond discussed the preparation for this events.
FISU delegation's visit will last for four days, during which the members of the delegation will meet with the functional areas of ANO "Executive Board" Kazan 2013 ", responsible for organizing and conducting the above mentioned activities.
On 18 May ay the CIPR conference in Nizhniy Nogorod the Tatarstan Deputy Prime Minister Roman Shaykhutdinov, the Rector of the Innopolis University Aleksandr Gasnikpov and the Vice-rector of the University Yevgeny Bobrov will take part at round tables session of the conference.
Experts will discuss the role of Tatarstan and Innopolis as one of the key technological centers of the country and how regional innovative platforms help to solve tasks of the whole Russian industry. A special emphasis will be placed on the digital transformation of the oil and gas sector and how large clusters and scientific and technological centers are becoming drivers of industry change.
On 16 May, speaking at a meeting in the Government House of the republic held by the regional Prime Minister Aleksey Pesoshin with participation of the Rais (Head) of Tatarstan Rustam Minnikhanov and all municipalities taking part in it via videoconference, the Minister of Agriculture and Food of the republic Marat Zyabbarov reported that the sowing of spring crops is in full swing in the republic with 1m 38 thousand hectares or 61 per cent of the planned have been sown.
On May 14, on the sidelines of the XVII International Economic Forum “Russia-the Islamic World: KazanForum”, Tatarstan Prime Minister Aleksey Pesoshin and Head of the Federal Service for Accreditation Dmitry Volvach signed an agreement on interaction and cooperation in the development of the halal industry.
On May 14, Prime Minister of Tajikistan Kokhir Rasulzoda, who arrived on a working visit in Kazan to take part in the events of the XVII International Economic Forum “Russia-the Islamic World: KazanForum”, was met by Prime Minister of the republic Aleksey Pesoshin and other officials at the Kazan International Airport.