Elvira Nabiullina visits IT city of the future Innopolis
17 September 2015, Thursday
On September 17, Chairman of the Central bank of the Russian Federation Elvira Nabiullina and Russian Minister of Communications and Mass Media Nikolay Nikiforov accompanied by Tatarstan Prime Minister Ildar Khalikov, Minister of Information and Communications Roman Shaikhutdinov and Director General of OAO “SEZ Innopolis” Igor Nosov visited Innopolis City in Verkhny Uslon in the republic.
Elvira Nabiullina and Nikolay Nikiforov arrived in Kazan to take part in the solemn opening of the first Kazan forum of financial technologies Finnopolis 2015.
During their visit to Innopolis, the guests were told about the history, main business dimensions, and main planned figures of development of the Innopolis city till 2030.
Nabiullina was interested in the amount of funds invested in Innopolis and Shaikhutdinov told her that 15 bln roubles were invested in the project.
The guests walked around training and office buildings, and Innopolis University.
On May 26, speaking at a briefing in the Cabinet of Ministers of the republic held in a videoconference mode with participation of all municipal regions of Tatarstan and focused on events scheduled for June 1, International Children’s Day, as well as the implementation of the “Summer in Tatarstan” programme, Deputy Prime Minister of the republic Leyla Fazleeva appealed that parents should closely supervise their children during recreational activities near water in order to prevent accidents.
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.