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
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