Tatarstan President holds session of committees of Association of Innovative Regions of Russia
28 February 2014, Friday
On February 28 Chairman of the Council of the Association of Innovative Regions of Russia Rustam Minnikhanov held a session of heads of Association committees within the framework of Krasnoyarsk economic forum.
Vide-Premier of Russian Government Arkady Dvorkovich, Russian Deputy Minister of Finance Andrey Ivanov, Governor of Krasnoyarsk region Lev Kuznetsov, Tatarstan Minister of Economy Midkhat Shagiakhmetov, Aide to Tatarstan President Airat Khairulin took part in the session.
Speaking at the event, Arkady Dvorkovich said that success of innovations depend on promotion of best practices.
CEO of the Association of Innovative Regions of Russia Ivan Bortnik told about tasks to be realized by the association, such as promotion of industrial innovative clusters at the federal level.
Heads of committees of Association of Innovative Regions of Russia told about activity and plans of the committees.
Midkhat Shagiakhmetov reported on the system meant for assessing the level of innovative development of Russian regions.
Summing up, Rustam Minnikhanov said that the Association of Innovative Regions of Russia successfully works and achieves certain results.
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.