President of Tatarstan Rustam Minnikhanov arrives in Singapore to participate in VII Russia Singapore Business Forum
24 September 2012, Monday
President of the Republic of Tatarstan Rustam Minnikhanov arrived in Singapore to participate in VII Russia Singapore Business Forum.
The Tatarstan President is accompanied by Deputy Prime Minister of the Republic of Tatarstan and Minister of Informatization and Communications of the Republic of Tatarstan Roman Shaikhutdinov, Aide to the Tatarstan President Radik Gimatdinov, Chief Executive of Tatarstan Investment Development Agency Linar Yakupov, Chairman of OAO “Ak Bars” Bank Robert Minnegaliev.
Presentation of Innopolis project will be held within the framework of first session “Emerging Cities as Growth Drivers”.
President of Tatarstan Rustam Minnikhanov will speak at the session “Russia and CIS: Opportunities and Challenges”.
Itinerary of the two-day working trip includes several meetings and visits to a number of objects. In particular, the Tatarstan delegation will visit Hwa Chong Institution and Art Science museum, discuss the General plan of the project Smart city Kazan with Malaysian consortium - AMANAH Capital Group, Straits Consulting Engineers, AJM Planing and Urban Design Group, and investment company pHCapital Limited.
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
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