Ildar Khalikov: Tatarstan and PricewaterhouseCoopers have great potential for cooperation

On October 2 at his meeting with Managing Partner of PwC Russia David Gray, Tatarstan Prime-Minister Ildar Khalikov said that PricewaterhouseCoopers is a long-time and reliable partner of Tatastan in a number of projects and there is great potential for further cooperation.

Opening the meeting, Head of Tatarstan Government congratulated PricewaterhouseCoopers, the partner of Executive Committee of Universiade, on successful completion of the Games. “We are cooperating in other areas as well. We are very pleased that you accepted our proposal to cooperate with Kazan Federal University,” Ildar Khalikov noted.

According to Ildar Khalikov, such projects encourage enterprises and state institutions and lay the foundation for further cooperation.

Tatarstan Prime-Minister expressed his hope that PwC will find new projects within the framework of forum Kazansummit’13, including Innopolis and Smart City projects.

Ildar Khalikov also thanked PricewaterhouseCoopers for their charitable activity and help to children and elderly people.

Managing Partner of PwC Russia David Gray, in his turn, said that it is a great honour for the company to work in Tatarstan, and PwC’s management is impressed by results of the projects, which are under implementation in the region.

David Gray said that the company has plans to expand its cooperation with Tatarstan.

Finally, participants of the meeting expressed their confidence in further successful activity of PricewaterhouseCoopers in Tatarstan.

Vice-Premier – Tatarstan Minister of Information and Communication Roman Shaikhutdinov, Head of Unversiade Directorate Vladimir Leonov, Vice-Principal on Economic and Strategic development of Kazan Federal University Marat Safiullin took part in the meeting.