Rustam Minnikhanov: “Our task is to make up the middle class”
25 November 2013, Monday
On November 25, speaking at a session of educational project “Civil University-Idel” Tatarstan President Rustam Minnikhanov said that development of small and medium-size business, formation of middle class of entrepreneurial, self-reliant people is one of the most important tasks for Tatarstan leadership.
“Civil University-Idel” project is being implemented under federal party project “Civil University” aimed at improvement of professional level of political and public figures. The project was launched in March 2013 at Higher school of public and municipal administration of Kazan Federal University. Participants of the programme will get certificates when the programme finishes.
The 3d session of the project “Civil University-Idel” under educational programme “Theory and practice of modern political process development” is held in Almetievsk on November 22-25. About 100 representatives of party activists and public organisations from different Tatarstan regions are taking part in the event.
Within three days participants of the programme will attend courses held by regional and federal experts dedicated to urgent problems of social-economic and socio-political life of the country.
Addressing the audience today, Tatarstan President Rustam Minnikhanov noted that party activists should be professional, educated and keep up-to-date. He also told about innovative development of the republic noting that oil industry is one of the most innovative industries, and the basis of country’s economy. Another important task of regional leadership is making up the middle class, he added.
Rustam Minnikhanov also told about economic development of Tatarstan and prospective lines of Tatarstan economy. Participants of the programme asked Rustam Minnikhanov whether municipalities need strategic development plans and what qualities are most important for a state leader.
Rustam Minnikhanov and rector of Kazan Federal University presented certificates to participants of the programme.
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