Tatarstan President holds negotiations with RUAG Aerospace management
17 October 2013, Thursday
On October 17 during his working trip to Germany Tatarstan President Rustam Minnikhanov met with RUAG Aerospace management in Erfurt.
RUAG is a Swiss technology company with 7700 employees and offices in Switzerland, Germany, Sweden, Austria, Hungary, Australia, Malaysia and USA. The company caries out activity in the sphere of aviation, space, technologies, ammunition supplies and defence industry.
RUAG Aerospace Services GmbH Director General Mr Aleksandr Muller presented a modernized turbo-prop aircraft for interregional passenger and cargo transportation Dornier 228. The aircraft can be used in civil sector, armed forces, and search and rescue operations.
Tatarstan President and company’s management discussed prospects of cooperation between RUAG Aerospace and Tatarstan enterprises in aircraft engineering.
On May 26, speaking at a briefing in the Cabinet of Ministers of the republic held in a videoconference mode with participation of all municipal regions of Tatarstan and focused on events scheduled for June 1, International Children’s Day, as well as the implementation of the “Summer in Tatarstan” programme, Deputy Prime Minister of the republic Leyla Fazleeva appealed that parents should closely supervise their children during recreational activities near water in order to prevent accidents.
On 18 May ay the CIPR conference in Nizhniy Nogorod the Tatarstan Deputy Prime Minister Roman Shaykhutdinov, the Rector of the Innopolis University Aleksandr Gasnikpov and the Vice-rector of the University Yevgeny Bobrov will take part at round tables session of the conference.
Experts will discuss the role of Tatarstan and Innopolis as one of the key technological centers of the country and how regional innovative platforms help to solve tasks of the whole Russian industry. A special emphasis will be placed on the digital transformation of the oil and gas sector and how large clusters and scientific and technological centers are becoming drivers of industry change.
On 16 May, speaking at a meeting in the Government House of the republic held by the regional Prime Minister Aleksey Pesoshin with participation of the Rais (Head) of Tatarstan Rustam Minnikhanov and all municipalities taking part in it via videoconference, the Minister of Agriculture and Food of the republic Marat Zyabbarov reported that the sowing of spring crops is in full swing in the republic with 1m 38 thousand hectares or 61 per cent of the planned have been sown.
On May 14, on the sidelines of the XVII International Economic Forum “Russia-the Islamic World: KazanForum”, Tatarstan Prime Minister Aleksey Pesoshin and Head of the Federal Service for Accreditation Dmitry Volvach signed an agreement on interaction and cooperation in the development of the halal industry.