Tatarstan Prime Minister Rustam Minnikhanov considers that on-line trading system will secure against corruption and provide correct interrelation “price-quality”
14 March 2009, Saturday
Head of Tatarstan government required for a serious attitude towards implementation of the planned parameters in housing construction in 2009 at a meeting in RT Cabinet.
449 thousand m² of housing (22,5 % of annual plan) have been constructed in January and February. It is planned to have 1,55 mln. m² of housing commissioned by the end of 2009.
Rustam Minnikhanov said that it is necessary to have all documentation for construction, particularly, registered ground areas. Besides he offered to cooperate actively with State Order Agency and use on-line trading system for purchasing construction materials.
Rustam Minnikhanov entrusted chief of State Order Agency Yakov Geller with organizing training seminars for specialists (including municipal regions).
RT Minister of construction, architecture and housing Marat Khusnullin made a report at the meeting. He stressed that a 3-year program of State housing fund has to be approved by May,1 saying that municipal administrations should take documentation seriously.
As far as the program of capital repair of multi-family houses is concerned it has already been financed for 998 mln. roubles. Accounts were set up for 233 houses, the works started.
The issue was raised likewise regarding cost of 1 m² of housing by social mortgage program. Currently the price for 1 m² is defined as 22 000 roubles. But Marat Khusnullin considers that this point should be discussed because both imported decoration and domestic-produced materials became more expensive.
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