Tatarstan President meets with Governors of Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous District and Arkhangelsk Region
22 May 2014, Thursday
On May 22, at their meeting within the framework of the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum, which is taking place at “Lenexpo” Complex on May 22-24, 2014, Tatarstan President Rustam Minnikhanov and Governor of Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous District Dmitry Kobylkin discussed issues of implementation of project on construction of cross-country pipelines for transportation of crude hydrocarbons from Yamal to Volga regions.
Three regions, Bashkortostan, Tatarstan and Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous District, are taking part in the project and the Yamal-Volga region industrial and commercial structure has been established for its implementation.
Dmitry Kobylkin and Rustam Minnikhanov also discussed issues of possible cooperation in the field of mining and delivery of river boats produced by Zelenodolsk Shipyard for the needs of Yamal.
Later on the same day, Rustam Minnikhanov met with Governor of Arkhangelsk region Igor Orlov. Tatarstan and Arkhangelsk region are also cooperating in the field of shipbuilding . Thus, Arkhangelsk region is the customer of Zelenodolsk shipyard, and it is expected that two river boats will be handed over to Arkhangelsk in August 2014.
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.
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