Tatarstan President meets with Pro-rector of Carnegie Mellon University
31 October 2013, Thursday
On October 31 at their meeting in Moscow within the framework of the forum “Open innovations” Tatarstan President Rustam Minnikhanov and Pro-rector of Carnegie Mellon University Mark Kamlet discussed implementation of Innopolis University.
Russian Minister of Communication and Mass Media Nikolay Nikiforov, Tatarstan Minister of Information and Communication Roman Shaikhutdinov, and Aide to Tatarstan President on economic issues Airat Khairullin took part in the meeting.
Rustam Minnikhanov noted that the forum gives opportunity to discuss current cooperation between Tatarstan and Carnegie Mellon University, and prospects.
Nikolay Nikiforov reminded that IT University that is being established in Innopolis city will be diferent from other Russian universities. The expert council of IT companies will manage the university activity.
Mark Kamlet said they are very interested in Innopolis project.
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.