Rustam Minnikhanov meets Chairman of the Committee for budget and financial policy of State Council of Crimea Vitaly Nakhlupin
9 September 2015, Wednesday
On September 9, at Tatarstan Government House, Interim President of the republic Rustam Minnikhanov had a meeting with Chairman of the Committee for budget and financial policy of Crimean State Council Vitaly Nakhlupin, who read out greetings from Chairman of the State Council of Crimea Vladimir Konstantinov.
He noted that Tatarstan is one of the key regions for Crimea in terms of cooperation, economic development and improvement of the regulatory basis.
Steps on further cooperation in a number of areas were discussed at the meeting.
Chairman of the Committee for economy, investments and entrepreneurship of Tatarstan State Council Rafis Burganov, Minister of Construction, Architecture, Housing and Utilities of the republic Irek Faizullin, Board Chairman of PAO “Volgomost” Vladimir Shvetsov took part in the meeting.
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.
On 4 May at a briefing held in the Tatarstan Government House it was told that currently there are 92 combat veterans, the last witnesses of the Great Patriotic War (WW II) of 1941-1945, living in the republic. The briefing also informed about veterans’ support measures and how the republic is planning to celebrate the Victory Day on 9 May.
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