Rustam Minnikhanov: “Selet is the most powerful and interesting forum in Russia”
15 August 2013, Thursday
On August 15 at the youth forum “Selet” in Alekseevsky region Tatarstan President Rustam Minnikhanov said that the forum will soon be of the same scale as “Sozvezdie-Yoldyzlyk” festival with tens of thousands of participants.
The youth forum “Selet” is held for the second time on August 12-17. This year five thousand people from Tatarstan and Russian regions, Czech Republic, Australia, and United Arab Emirates, winners of regional subject competitions, creative contests and sport competitions, leaders of regional children’s and youth public organisations are taking part in the event.
Rustam Minnikhanov talked to guests and participants. Priority areas of Selet society development were presented to the President.
Rustam Minnikhanov also met with activists of the forum and answered their questions. Timur Suleimanov, the forum leader, told that “Selet” appeared as a camp for 65 talented children in Arsk town in 1994. It is now the system for work with talented youth.
Timur Suleimanov presented the “road map” showing development of Selet movement. He believes that in 3-5 years Selet club will appear in every school. Rustam Minnikhanov noted that it will enable using gained experience of working with talented children. He also supported the idea of creating Selet TV channel and asked to interact with Tatmedia agency on this issue.
Finally, Tatarstan President promised that the concept of the movement development will be approved by regional leadership.
On March 10, the third meeting of the organizing committee on preparation and holding of the 20th anniversary Russian Venture Forum 2026 to be held in Kazan from April 8 to 10, chaired by Russian Minister of Science and Higher Education Valery Falkov and with participation of Tatarstan Prime Minister of the Republic of Tatarstan and co-chair of the forum’s organizing committee Aleksey Pesoshin, President of the Academy of Sciences of Tatarstan Rifkat Minnikhanov, Director of the Investment and Venture Fund of Tatarstan Damir Galiev as well as representatives of federal and regional authorities, development institutions and partner organizations via videoconference, took place.
On 10 March, speaking at a briefing dedicated to the development of the national Max messenger in Tatarstan and held in the Government House of the republic with all municipalities taking part in it via videoconference, the Minister of Digitalization of Public Administration, Information Technologies and Communication of the republic Ilya Nachvin informed that according to the data of March 2026 about 1.5m residents of Tatarstan use domestic Max messenger.
On 5 February Tatarstan Prime Minister Aleksey Pesoshin took part in ceremony of awarding winners of the regional competition “The Woman of the Year. The Man of the Year: A Woman’s View” held at the Korston Leisure and Recreation Center in Kazan.
On 4 March at a briefing in the Government House of the republic Tatarstan Minister of Land and Property Relation Fanil Agliullin told about changes in land legislation enforced from 1 March of the current year. He said that they simplify a number of procedures for land plot owners including expanding the possibilities for land use and changing the rules for changing the category of a plot.
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