Rustam Minnikhanov meets with President of AO “Kazakhstan railways” Askar Mamin and Vice-president of Barclays Capital Marc Holtzman
21 April 2013, Sunday
President of Tatarstan Rustam Minnikhanov discussed prospects of cooperation with delegation of AO “Kazakhstan railways” led by the President Askar Mamin, Vice-president of Barclays Capital, Chairman of Meridian Capital Marc Holtzman.
The meeting was held at Tatarstan Government House. Aide to Tatarstan President Radik Gimatdinov, Mayor of Kazan Ilsur Metshin, Minister of Transport and Roads Lenar Safin, Minister of Construction, Architecture, Housing and Communal Services Irek Faizullin, employees of Tatarstan Ministry of Health participated in the meeting.
Participants of the meeting discussed issues of mutually beneficial cooperation in development of airport activity, health care industry, construction of multi-purpose hotel complex.
Rustam Minnikhanov noted that variants of public-private partnership for organization of private ambulance are being studied in Tatarstan. Rustam Minnikhanov supposes that a multi-purpose hotel complex can be constructed in Kazan.
President of AO “Kazakhstan railways” Askar Mamin told about company’s development, and cooperation with OAO “Russian railways”.
On May 26, speaking at a briefing in the Cabinet of Ministers of the republic held in a videoconference mode with participation of all municipal regions of Tatarstan and focused on events scheduled for June 1, International Children’s Day, as well as the implementation of the “Summer in Tatarstan” programme, Deputy Prime Minister of the republic Leyla Fazleeva appealed that parents should closely supervise their children during recreational activities near water in order to prevent accidents.
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.