President of Russia handed awards to winners of “Dakar” - team “KAMAZ-Master”
26 October 2010, Tuesday
Today President of Russia Dmitry Medvedev visited scientific-technical centre of “KAMAZ” within the frameworks of working trip to Tatarstan. He was accompanied by RT President Rustam Minnikhanov.
The whole range of innovations and perspective projects of Kama auto giant was presented at the exposition.
For 9 months of 2010 “KAMAZ” produced 22, 5 thousand trucks. Dmitry Medvedev handed state awards to members of legendary team “KAMAZ-Master”, winners of international rally “Dakar-2010”.
The title “Honored worker of transport sector of RF” was given to Director General of JSC “KAMAZ” Sergey Kogogin for merits in development of domestic automobile industry and long-term honest work.
Since 2000 “KAMAZ-Master” team has been the winners of “Dakar” rally every year except for 2001, 2007.
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.