Ildar Khalikov meets with Managing Director of Euromoney Group Neil Osborn
23 May 2014, Friday
On May 23, at their meeting within the framework of XVIII St. Petersburg International Economic Forum Tatarstan Prime Minister Ildar Khalikov and Managing Director of Euromoney Group Neil Osborn discussed issues of cooperation between Tatarstan and Euromoney in some areas.
To the point, this year, the forum, being held at “Lenexpo” complex on May 22-24, 2014, is dedicated to the topic “Sustaining confidence in a world undergoing transformation and.
Ildar Khalikov thanked Neil Osborn for his showing interest in Tatarstan as one of the Russian regions. He said that Tatarstan economy continues to actively develop, improving the image of its capital, Kazan. The Universiade 2013 played a great role in changing the image of the city, he added.
Neil Osborn, in his turn, reminded that Euromoney has already had experience in implementing projects with Tatarstan, and expressed his hope for further development of cooperation. He also noted that the publishing group Euromoney is one of the largest companies in Europe, covering the activities of the financial world. One of the divisions of the company specializes in organizing international financial and economic conferences and forums and works closely with governments in Western and Eastern Europe, the Middle East and South America.
Tatarstan President's Press Office, Elena Britvina
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On 18 May ay the CIPR conference in Nizhniy Nogorod the Tatarstan Deputy Prime Minister Roman Shaykhutdinov, the Rector of the Innopolis University Aleksandr Gasnikpov and the Vice-rector of the University Yevgeny Bobrov will take part at round tables session of the conference.
Experts will discuss the role of Tatarstan and Innopolis as one of the key technological centers of the country and how regional innovative platforms help to solve tasks of the whole Russian industry. A special emphasis will be placed on the digital transformation of the oil and gas sector and how large clusters and scientific and technological centers are becoming drivers of industry change.
On 16 May, speaking at a meeting in the Government House of the republic held by the regional Prime Minister Aleksey Pesoshin with participation of the Rais (Head) of Tatarstan Rustam Minnikhanov and all municipalities taking part in it via videoconference, the Minister of Agriculture and Food of the republic Marat Zyabbarov reported that the sowing of spring crops is in full swing in the republic with 1m 38 thousand hectares or 61 per cent of the planned have been sown.
On May 14, on the sidelines of the XVII International Economic Forum “Russia-the Islamic World: KazanForum”, Tatarstan Prime Minister Aleksey Pesoshin and Head of the Federal Service for Accreditation Dmitry Volvach signed an agreement on interaction and cooperation in the development of the halal industry.