Board Chairman of Russian Pension Fund: “We thank Tatarstan leadership for developing information technologies”
17 December 2013, Tuesday
On December 17 Tatarstan President Rustam Minnikhanov took part in an extended session of Russian Pension Fund at Kazan City Hall, where Board Chairman of the Fund Anton Drozdov said that Tatarstan Department is one of the most up-to-date in terms of implementing modern information technologies.
Opening the session, Anton Drozdov thanked Rustam Minnikhanov for invitation to hold the session in Tatarstan. He said that the republic is known as the leader in the sphere of electronic technologies, and Tatarstan Department of Russian Pension Fund is one of the most up-to-date in this area.
According to Tatarstan President, Tatarstan steadily holds leading positions in federal ratings and has become one of the most investment-attractive regions in Russia. Tatarstan is in top 5 regions by GRP, capital investments and the share of investment products.
Tatarstan Department of Russian Pension Fund that fulfills all set tasks successfully plays an important role in social and economic life of the republic, it is one of largest departments in Russia the President said. The strategic priority task of the department development is increasing quality and availability of state services.
Board Chairman of Russian Pension Fund Anton Drozdov made report on preliminary results of work for 2013 and tasks for 2014. He informed that the average rate of the retirement pension made 10741 rubles, average pension of persons disabled as a result of war injuries made 24280 rubles, participants of the Great Patriotic War – 25283 rubles, average social pension made 6459 rubles.
According to Anton Drozdov, almost 78 mln people have funded component of pension that requires proper administration. Therefore, the pension savings guarantee system is being implemented.
Anton Drozdov highly estimated work of Tatarstan Department of Russian Pension Fund.
On 1 April Tatarstan Prime Minister Aleksey Pesoshin and Russian Minister of Healthcare Mikhail Murashko introduced Ayrat Farrakhov, who was appointed the Acting Rector of Kazan State Medical University (KSMU) to its staff.
In his speech Mikhail Murashko emphasized that today KSMU is rightfully considered one of the most respected in the country and said:”Ayrat (Zakievich) has been officially appointed the Acting Rector and I am sure that under his leadership the University will maintain the positions it has achieved and, of course, will continue its development.”
On 31 March in the Government House of the republic Tatarstan Deputy Prime Minister Leyla Fazleeva hold a meeting of the Commission on the Russian language under the Rais of Tatarstan, which considered key issues of supporting and developing Russian language, including new educational initiatives and discussed programmes of popularization of Russian literature and activities to preserve the language heritage.
On 28 March, speaking at a meeting held by Tatarstan Prime Minister Aleksey Pesoshin in the Government House of the republic with participation of the Acting Chairman of the State Council of the republic Marat Akhmetov and all municipalities taking part in it via videoconference, the regional Minister of Ecology and Natural Resources Azat Ziganshin informed that the regional central cleaning up action will be held in the republic on 25 April and clarified that the location of the national cleanup day will be announced later as the site will be chosen taking into account the opinions of Tatarstan residents.
On 28 March, speaking at a meeting held by Tatarstan Prime Minister Aleksey Pesoshin in the Government House of the republic with participation of the regional and the Acting Chairman of the State Council of the republic Marat Akhmetov and all municipalities taking part in it via videoconference, the regional Deputy Minister of Construction, Architecture and Housing Utilities Sector Damir Shaydullin informed about statistics on the collection of utility bills payments from the population and data on the payment discipline of enterprises and organizations of the republic.