Cooperation agreement on rendering patronage assistance to cadet institutions signed by Russian Ministry of Defence, Presidential envoy in Volga federal district and Tatarstan
12 December 2013, Thursday
Cooperation agreement on rendering patronage assistance to cadet institutions signed by Russian Ministry of Defence, Presidential envoy in Volga federal district, Tatarstan and Bashkortostan and Udmurt Republic was signed today in Moscow.
The document was signed by Russian Minister of Defence Sergey Shoigu, Presidential envoy in Volga federal district Mikhail Babich, Tatarstan President Rustam Minnikhanov, President of Udmurt Republic Aleksandr Volkov, and President of Bashkortostan Rustem Khamitov.
The agreement stipulates that Russian Ministry of Defence will render support in providing military equipment, recruitment of highly skilled personnel, and admission to higher educational institutions of Russian Ministry of Defence.
In his welcoming speech Sergey Shoigu noted that country’s leadership pays much attention to patriotic education of the younger generation.
Tatarstan President Rustam Minnikhanov also focused on importance of patriotic education of the youth, and noted that there are 12 cadet boarding schools, 5 cadet schools in Tatarstan.
Press Office of Presidential Envoy in Volga Federal District
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