Mintimer Shaimiev: “I think chess tournament was the best”
15 July 2013, Monday
On July 15 Tatarstan State Counsellor, Senior Advisor to the President of the World Chess Federation (FIDE) Mintimer Shaimiev took part in awarding ceremony of the chess tournament winners within the framework of 27th World Summer Universiade 2013 in Kazan.
President of Tatarstan Chess Federation Gennady Zakharov and Mintimer Shaimiev watched the last game between Wesley So (Philippines) and Zaven Andriasyan (Armenia) with great interest.
Mintimer Shaimiev presented gold medal to the winner, chess player from Philippines. Silver medal was presented to Zaven Andriasyan from Armenia and bronze medal – to Li Chao B from China.
In women’s individual championship Zhao Xue from China won gold medal, Ju Wenjun and Tan Zhongyi won silver and bronze medals.
In group championship the first was Chinese team, the second - Russian team, the third – Polish team.
Chess competitions were held in Equestrian Sports Complex “Kazan”.
On 18 May at their meeting at the Innopolis University, Tatarstan Deputy Prime Minister Roman Shaykhutdinov, a delegation from the Gazprom Transgas Tomsk headed by the Director General of the company Vladislav Borodin and the administration of the University discussed implementation of joint projects within the 2022-2023 road map.
On 17 May, speaking at a briefing in the Tatarstan Cabinet of Ministers, the regional Minister of Education and Science Ilsur Khadiullin said that in the current year amendments to the USE (United State Exam) tasks have been made in all 11 subjects and the exam time has been shortened for two of them.
At their meeting at the Innopolis University, the Head of the 715 Department of the Gazprom Company Elena Kasyan, who came on a visit to Innopolis, Tatarstan Deputy Prime Minister Roman Shaykhutdinov, Director of the Innopolis University Kirill Semenikhin, Director General of the Gazprom Transgas Kazan Company Rustem Usmanov discussed joint educational projects in training the Gazprom and its daughter companies in IT and digitalization at the Innopolis University. The participants of the meeting also discussed issues of digital transformation of the Gazprom staff with development of the corresponding IT platforms and training heads of the HR service at the university.
Dear Tatarstan residents!
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