Rustam Minnikhanov holds meeting with EBRD President
24 September 2013, Tuesday
On September 24 within the framework of Russia-Singapore business forum Tatarstan President Rustam Minnikhanov met with President of European Bank for Reconstruction and Development Suma Chakrabarti.
Mr Chakrabarti said that when investors ask him about the best Russian region to establish successful cooperation with, he always mentions the Republic of Tatarstan.
He believes that Tatarstan takes the first place among Russian regions in terms of investment potential.
On September 22-24 2014 EBRD officials are going to visit Tatarstan to estimate investment opportunities. Mr Chakrabarti said he is looking forward to visiting Tatarstan, especially the Special Economic Zone “Innopolis”.
Rustam Minnikhanov said that this project is one of the largest in Russia. He also informed that some laws that guarantee tax preferences and safety of investments for potential investors had been passed in Russia.
Tatarstan President also told about major projects being implemented in Tatarstan, in particular, construction of motorway “Europe-Western China”, multimodal logistics centre, construction of high-speed railway “Moscow-Kazan”. He believes that the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development may render financial support upon implementation of these projects.
On 12 April in his address to residents of the republic, Tatarstan Prime Minister Aleksey Pesoshin congratulated them with the Space Exploration Day and said: “April 12, 1961 has forever been inscribed into the world history as the day of triumph of the Soviet science and engineering thought. The flight of Yuriy Gagarin opened the way to the stars for the humankind and demonstrated to the whole world the might of our country.
On 4 April , speaking at a closing ceremony of the XX Russian Venture Forum held at the Kazan Expo Exhibition Center, Tatarstan Prime Minister Aleksey Pesoshin said that the Russian Venture Forum has confirmed its status of the point of attraction of technological development leaders.
The Forum created a unified scientific, technological and investment space where scientific ideas are transformed into competitive products, and startups gain access to capital and markets. Its business programme is organically integrated into the regional and federal agenda for achieving technological sovereignty and leadership of Russia, he said.
On 1 April Tatarstan Prime Minister Aleksey Pesoshin and Russian Minister of Healthcare Mikhail Murashko introduced Ayrat Farrakhov, who was appointed the Acting Rector of Kazan State Medical University (KSMU) to its staff.
In his speech Mikhail Murashko emphasized that today KSMU is rightfully considered one of the most respected in the country and said:”Ayrat (Zakievich) has been officially appointed the Acting Rector and I am sure that under his leadership the University will maintain the positions it has achieved and, of course, will continue its development.”
On 31 March in the Government House of the republic Tatarstan Deputy Prime Minister Leyla Fazleeva hold a meeting of the Commission on the Russian language under the Rais of Tatarstan, which considered key issues of supporting and developing Russian language, including new educational initiatives and discussed programmes of popularization of Russian literature and activities to preserve the language heritage.