Ildar Khalikov holds session of Board of guardians of the Investment and Venture Fund of the Republic of Tatarstan
31 October 2013, Thursday
On October 31 Tatarstan Prime Minister held a session of the Board of guardians of the Investment and Venture Fund (IVF) of the Republic of Tatarstan at Tatarstan Government House.
The issue of holding the annual regional competition “Fifty best innovative ideas for Republic of Tatarstan” was on the agenda among other issues.
To the point, the competition is held for the ninth time and traditionally organized by the Investment and Venture Fund of the Republic of Tatarstan together with the Tatarstan Academy of Sciences.
By and large, 1413 applications have been filed to compete in eight nominations in 2013 (1323 applications in 2012).
The awarding ceremony will be held on December 12, 2013 at Korston with participation of Tatarstan leadership, representatives of Russian and European venture industry, Russian and regional investment funds.
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