Rustam Minnikhanov speaks at session of FISU executive committee to support Krasnoyarsk as a candidate city for hosting winter Universiade 2019
9 November 2013, Saturday
On November 9 Tatarstan President Rustam Minnikhanov spoke at a session of FISU executive committee in Brussels (Belgium) where he went with official Russian delegation to take part in presentation of Krasnoyarsk as a candidate city for hosting winter Universiade 2019.
Rustam Minnikhanov reminded that 27th World summer student games were successfully held in Kazan in July 2013. “In May 2008 I promised to hold the best Universiade in the history of FISU, and our 5-year preparatory work finished on July 17. At every stage of our work Russian President and Government supported us,” Rustam Minnikhanov said.
Tatarstan President noted that the idea to host summer Universiade was positively taken by the population. “Besides new sports and urban infrastructure, we got a great experience of holding major sports international events, and we are ready to share it with Krasnoyarsk colleagues,” he added.
On 21 January Tatarstan Prime Minister Aleksey Pesoshin, the Chief Federal Inspector for Tatarstan Viktor Demidov, the Head of the Security and Escort Department of the Russian Federal Penitentiary Service Sergey Eliseev and other officials took part in a resulting meeting of the Directorate of Federal Penitentiary Service for Tatarstan held in Kazan, which summarized results of operational, service, production, economic and financial activities of the penal system of the republic in 2025 and set tasks for the current year.
On 20 January Tatarstan Prime Minister Aleksey Pesoshin and the Russian Minister of Construction, Housing and Utilities Irek Faizullin accompanied by the Minister of Construction, Architecture and Housing Utilities Sector of the republic Marat Ayzatullin visited a new building of the Kirov district court in Kazan located in close proximity to the Moscow district court of the city.
On 19 January Tatarstan Prime Minister Aleksey Pesoshin took part in a meeting of the Russian National Guard Troops Directorate for the republic which summarized results of its work in 2025.
After a welcoming speech of the Head of the Directorate Rustem Gumerov, the participants of the meeting listened to the report of the Deputy Head Sergey Yakushev who told about main activities of the Directorate in 2025.
On 16 January, speaking at an expanded meeting of the collegium of Tatarstan State Committee for Tariffs dedicated to results of 2025, Tatarstan Prime Minister Aleksey Pesoshin said that tariff regulation is a strategic tool of state policy defining quality of life of all Tatarstan residents.
He stated that the issues of tariffs setting is the point where interests of population, business and the state overlap. The State Committee is facing a difficult task of finding an optimal balance when tariffs will be socially just for the population and at the same time create necessary conditions for the sustainable development of enterprises in the communal, power and transport spheres.