Minister of foreign affairs of Slovenia Karl Erjavec arrives in Kazan
15 September 2015, Tuesday
On September 15, Deputy Chairman of Slovenian Government, Minister of foreign affairs of Slovenia, Co-chairman of Intergovernmental Russia-Slovenia commission for trade-economic and scientific-technical cooperation Karl Erjavec, Russian Minister of culture Vladimir Medinsky and Russian Minister of Communications and Mass Media Nikolay Nikiforov arrived in Kazan to take part in a session of Intergovernmental Russia-Slovenia commission.
The officials were met by Interim President of the Republic of Tatarstan Rustam Minnikhanov and Prime Minister of the republic Ildar Khalikov. Karl Erjavec and Rustam Minnikhanov will have a meeting at the Kazan Kremlin in the evening this day.
Members of the Slovenian delegation will also visit an academic and laboratory campus of the Institute of fundamental medicine and biology at Kazan Federal University, regional engineering center of medical simulators “Center of medical science”, and Advanced technology technopark “IT-park”.
On 1 April Tatarstan Prime Minister Aleksey Pesoshin and Russian Minister of Healthcare Mikhail Murashko introduced Ayrat Farrakhov, who was appointed the Acting Rector of Kazan State Medical University (KSMU) to its staff.
In his speech Mikhail Murashko emphasized that today KSMU is rightfully considered one of the most respected in the country and said:”Ayrat (Zakievich) has been officially appointed the Acting Rector and I am sure that under his leadership the University will maintain the positions it has achieved and, of course, will continue its development.”
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.