Forum of national media agencies to be held in Tatarstan
14 January 2014, Tuesday
On January 14 at a summary session of Regional press and mass media agency Head of the agency Irek Minnakhmetov told that a forum of national media agencies will be held in Tatarstan in 2014.
Tatarstan President Rustam Minnikhanov, Chief of Staff of Tatarstan President’s Office Asgat Safarov, Deputy Prime Minister Yury Kamaltynov, Deputy Chairman of State Council, Chairman of the Union of journalists Rimma Ratnikova took part in the event.
According to Irek Minnakhmetov, the forum will be held to discuss urgent issues of interethnic and interconfessioanl relations, current state and prospects of Russian regional and national media agencies, to exchange experience, and hold seminars. 150 representatives of leading media agencies from 50 Russian regions are expected to take part in the forum.
Irek Minnakhmetov made a keynote report at today’s session. He told that the amount of state orders of media agencies made 1 bln 202 mln rubles. Two major media holdings, OAO Tatmedia and TNV, have main shares of the state order. The proceeds of OAO Tatmedia made 1 bln 303 mln rubles. Media agencies receive the biggest share of incomings due to commercial projects and advertisement.
The average salary of employees of media agencies made 21 300 rubles.
According to resolution of experts of the Association of communication agencies of Russia, total advertising volume of media agencies for 9 months of 2013 made 197 bln rubles. All media segments of advertising market showed positive dynamics except for press.
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.