Prime Minister of Luxembourg Jean-Claude Juncker and other members of the delegation have visited the Kazan IT-park.
Guests were accompanied by the Tatarstan President Rustam Minnikhanov and Tatarstan’s Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of informatization and communications Roman Shaikhutdinov.
Head of the Tatarstan Ministry of communications told about infrastructure of the Kazan IT-park, the branch of the high technology park in Naberezhnye Chelny, main principles and areas of activity, attraction of residents and offered conditions.
Further, key projects in the sphere of informatization and high technologies were presented. In particular, Roman Shaikhutdinov told about the project of IT city “Innopolis”, educational and health care projects, rendering of state services in electronic format.
Later on, members of the delegation visited business incubator and learn about advanced solutions developed by residents, such as the simulator for teaching young specialists to conduct operations without cavity dissection, and improving their professional skills.
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