Federal centre to support Tatarstan in construction of economy class housing
19 February 2014, Wednesday
On February 19 Russian Deputy Minister of construction, housing and utility services Aleksandr Plutnik took part in a meeting on supporting construction of economy class housing held by Tatarstan President Rustam Minnikhanov.
Rustam Minnikhanov said that Tatarstan has a wide experience in implementing housing construction programmes and is willing to take part in new programme with federal support.
Aleksandr Plutnik told that a new programme “Housing for a Russian family” is being developed in accordance with Russian President’s order that was announced in his address to the Federal Assembly.
Aleksandr Plutnik told journalists that general programme implementation tools were discussed at the meeting, and certain volume of housing construction would be determined later.
Tatarstan Minister of construction, architecture housing and utility services Irek Faizullin, in his turn, said that State Housing Fund will be the main participant of the programme.
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.