Rustam Minnikhanov meets with Thuringia Prime Minister
17 October 2013, Thursday
On October 17 during his working trip to Germany Tatarstan President Rustam Minnikhanov met with Thuringia Prime Minister Ms Christine Lieberknecht in Erfurt.
Ms Prime Minister welcomed Tatarstan delegation and noted great interest displayed by local businessmen and public organisations towards the visit. She added that all spheres of potential cooperation between Tatarstan and Thuringia, such as education, agricultural industry, construction, petrochemistry, are developing. She hoped that during the forum that will be held on October 18 Tatarstan and Thuringia partners will agree on new joint projects.
Rustam Minnikhanov, in his turn, thanked Ms Lieberknecht for invitation to visit Thuringia and opportunity to present Tatarstan economic and investment potential.
Rustam Minnikhanov noted that Tatarstan is one of rapidly developing and investment-attractive regions in Russia. He confirmed that there are good opportunities for developing cooperation between Tatarstan and Thuringia.
Summing up, the parties agreed on return visit of Thuringia delegation to Tatarstan.
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.