The Housing Development Foundation will give the Republic of Tatarstan lands for inmplementation a number of social projects.
30 August 2012, Thursday
The Meeting on the cooperation between the Republic of Tatarstan and the Housing Development Foundation was held today by the President of the republic of tatarstan Rustam Minnikhanov and CEO of Housing Development Foundation Alexander Braverman.
The meeting was attended by the Minister of Construction, Architecture and Housing of the Republic of Tatarstan Irek Faizullin, Minister of Land and Property Relations of the Republic of Tatarstan Azat Hamaev, Mayor of Kazan Ilsur Metshin, Deputy General Directors of the Housing Development Foundation Alexey Fursin and Denis Filippov.
Opening the meeting, Rustam Minnikhanov thanked the Foundation for the productive cooperation with the Republic of Tatarstan and noted, that the interaction with the Foundation represents enormous interest for the Republic. Alexander Braverman, in turn, recalled that the interaction with the republic is a part of cooperation agreement signed in 2009.
As part of the meeting, the sides discussed the issues of implementation of projects such as the expansion of the infrastructure of the National Clinical Hospital (NCH) and the definition the of land near the territory of NCH for building houses of economy class for workers of the health sphere. In addition, the Fund will also give the Republic of Tatarstan the territory in Laishev area for providing the land property for large families.
Representatives of the Housing Development Foundation proposed the creation of a working group for a more detailed analysis of issues. After the meeting Rustam Minnikhanov and Alexander Braverman answered questions from journalists.
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