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 9 May Tatarstan Prime Minister Aleksey Pesoshin took part in a ceremony of laying flowers to the monument “The victorious soldier” dedicated to the celebrations of the Day of Victory in the Great Patriotic War (WW II) 1941-1945 and held at Arsk cemetery in Kazan.
On 8 May, speaking at a meeting held by the Rais (Head) of Tatarstan Rustam Minnikhanov in the Government House of the republic with participation of the Acting Chairman of the State Council of the republic Marat Akhmetov and the regional Prime Minister Aleksey Pesoshin, the Minister of Construction, Architecture and Housing Utilities Sector of the republic Marat Ayzatullin reported that capital overhaul of social facilities is in full swing in the republic with 170 educational facilities having been included into regional and federal programmes.
On 4 May at a briefing held in the Tatarstan Government House it was told that currently there are 92 combat veterans, the last witnesses of the Great Patriotic War (WW II) of 1941-1945, living in the republic. The briefing also informed about veterans’ support measures and how the republic is planning to celebrate the Victory Day on 9 May.
The Deputy Prime Minister of the republic Leyla Fazleeva told that names of 353 Heroes of the Soviet Union from Tatarstan “ are immortalized in street names, on memorials, in monuments and squares and, of course, in our memory”. “The Victory Day is the day of memory, mourning and joy. It is the event which today should be clearly understandable to all young people and younger generation of Tatarstan,” she said.
On 24 April, upon his arrival to the Kazan International Airport, the Defense Minister of China Dong Jun was welcomed by Tatarstan Prime Minister Aleksey Pesoshin, representatives of the General Consulate of China in Kazan and other officials