Tatarstan President holds business meetings in Davos
21 January 2015, Wednesday
On January 21, during his working visit to Davos, Tatarstan President Rustam Minnikhanov held a number of business meetings with heads of the largest companies. Director General of OAO “Tatneft” Oil Company Nail Maganov took part in the meetings.
In the morning Rustam Minnikhanov took part in a business breakfast with President of Rwanda Paul Kagame and Ex-premier of Great Britain Tony Blair.
At his meeting with Cisco President for Europe, Middle East, Africa, and Russia Chris Dedicoat Minnikhanov noted long-term positive experience of cooperation of the republic with one of the largest companies in the world. He told Chris Dedicoat about realization of Innopolis project and invited Cisco to this IT town being created in Tatarstan.
Rustam Minnikhanov also met Christophe Beck, the Executive Vice-president of Ecolab, Danfoss President and Director General Bjørn Christiansen, where he discussed prospects of companies’ work in Tatarstan.
The previous evening Rustam Minnikhanov visited solemn opening ceremony of the World Economic Forum.
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.
On May 14, Prime Minister of Tajikistan Kokhir Rasulzoda, who arrived on a working visit in Kazan to take part in the events of the XVII International Economic Forum “Russia-the Islamic World: KazanForum”, was met by Prime Minister of the republic Aleksey Pesoshin and other officials at the Kazan International Airport.
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