Rustam Minnikhanov presented project that may be implemented in Alabuga Special Economic Zone
18 March 2015, Wednesday
On March 18, executives of the Mir Holding and Dizyan Group from Turkey presented a vegetable growing project, the Miracle ecological greenhouse system, to Tatarstan President Rustam Minnikhanov.
Minnikhanov was told about new technologies applied in greenhouse production and about a project on building a specialised greenhouse zone. The type of enterprise is expected to be launched in the Alabuga special economic zone. The project envisages growing tomatoes, cucumbers, paprika, marrows and other vegetables, as well as installing refrigerating equipment to freeze products, and building state-of-the-art laboratories.
Turkish business executives displayed an interest in investing in the project.
The parties discussed the possibility to implement the project on condition of being granted tenancy in the Alabuga zone. Timur Shagivaleev, Director General of the zone, dwelled on the privileges for tenant companies.
Tatarstan President's Press Office, Elena Britvina
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.
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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