Rustam Minnikhanov holds a number of meetings and talks at St. Petersburg International Economic Forum 2014
22 May 2014, Thursday
On May 22, Tatarstan President Rustam Minnikhanov met with Board Chairman of Renaissance Holding Erman Ilicak within the framework of the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum, which is taking place at “Lenexpo” Complex on May 22-24, 2014.
The Renaissance Holding founded in 1993 is a group of companies, specializing in construction, property investment, power engineering, and trade companies. Being one of the leading companies of the Holding, “Renaissance Construction” is among 100 the best international contract companies of the world and is the largest international contractor in Turkey.
Rustam Minnikhanov noted that today the Turkish companies are running successful business at the special economic zone “Alabuga”. On the whole, Turkey is one of the main economic partners of Tatarstan, he said.
As for “Renaissance” Holding, it has a successful experience in implementation of numerous projects in the field of investment, construction, and power engineering, Rustam Minnikhanov said. According to him, Tatarstan is open for cooperation in all areas and ready to provide comprehensive support for joint projects.
Later on the same day, Rustam Minnikhanov met with Co-owner and Board Chairman of “Summa Group” Ziyavudin Magomedov.
Today, “Summa Group” is a Russian diversified private holding with significant investments in port logistics, engineering, construction, telecommunications, and the oil and gas sectors. With headquarters located in Moscow, its companies employ more than 10,000 people in almost 40 regions of Russia and abroad.
Issues of participation in the construction of Sviyazhsk interregional multimodal logistics centre in Tatarstan were discussed at the meeting.
Tatarstan President's Press Office, Elena Britvina
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.
On 27 March, speaking at a ceremonial event dedicated to celebrations of the Day of Russian National Guard held at the Kazan City Hall with participation of the Chief of the Office of the Staff of the Rais of the republic Asgat Safarov, heads of law-enforcement bodies of the republic and veterans and employees of the territorial Directorate of the National Guard, Tatarstan Prime Minister Aleksey Pesoshin said that the Russian National Guard Directorate for the republic Republic of Tatarstan is traditionally acknowledged as one of the best in the country.