Rustam Minnikhanov is on a working trip in St.Petersburg
20 June 2013, Thursday
On June 20 Tatarstan President Rustam Minnikhanov arrived in St.Petersburg to take part in St.Petersburg International Economic Forum (June 20-21).
This year’s forum slogan is “Finding Resolve to Build the New Global Economy”. Main topics to be discussed are “The Global Growth Agenda”, “Russia’s New Horizons”, “New Catalysts for Change”.
The event is traditionally held at Lenexpo complex.
Rustam Minnikhanov is going to meet with officials of several international and Russian companies, such as OAO “INTER RAO UES”, “MasterCard”, “Thomson Reuters”.
On June 21 Tatarstan President will visit a business lunch “Investments in human capital” organized by Sberbank of Russia and the World Economic Forum, take part in general meeting of the Association of Innovative Regions of Russia.
A plenary session of St.Petersburg International Economic Forum will be held in the afternoon. The Russian President Vladimir Putin will deliver his speech at the session.
During the trip Rustam Minnikhanov is accompanied by Aide to Tatarstan President Airat Khairullin, First Deputy Minister of Industry and Trade Ruslan Kabirov, Chief Executive of Tatarstan Investment Development Agency Lenar Yakupov, Director General of “Ak Bars” holding Ivan Egorov.
Read more about St.Petersburg International Economic Forum here www.forumspb.com
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.