KAMAZ and Boschung sign an agreement to set up a joint venture
5 May 2011, Thursday
Tatarstan President Rustam Minnikhanov met with the management of the Boschung AG on May 5.
The meeting took place at the Tatarstan House of Government. Marcel Boschung, a member of the Board of Director of Boschung AG, Ildar Khalikov, the Tatarstan Prime Minister, Lenar Safin, Tatarstan Transport and Road Minister, Radik Gaizatullin, Tatarstan Finance Minister, Ilsur Metshin, the Mayor of Kazan, Sergei Kogogin, the KAMAZ Director General, and other officials attended the meeting.
At the meeting, Rustam Minnikhanov thanked the Boschung management for the visit organized for Tatarstan representatives and the opportunity to get acquainted with Boschung products. He was positive about joint plans of Boschung and KAMAZ to manufacture community vehicles and machines for Kazan and other Russian cities.
Marcel Boschung expressed his confidence that the cooperation with OAO KAMAZ would be fruitful and successful and thanked KAMAZ Director General Sergei Kogogin for his readiness to organize the production process in Tatarstan.
Two documents were singed during the meeting: the trilateral Agreement of Intent between the KAZAn Executive Committee, KAMAZ and Boschung; the Agreement to set up a joint venture between KAMAZ and Boshung.
On 12 April in his address to residents of the republic, Tatarstan Prime Minister Aleksey Pesoshin congratulated them with the Space Exploration Day and said: “April 12, 1961 has forever been inscribed into the world history as the day of triumph of the Soviet science and engineering thought. The flight of Yuriy Gagarin opened the way to the stars for the humankind and demonstrated to the whole world the might of our country.
On 4 April , speaking at a closing ceremony of the XX Russian Venture Forum held at the Kazan Expo Exhibition Center, Tatarstan Prime Minister Aleksey Pesoshin said that the Russian Venture Forum has confirmed its status of the point of attraction of technological development leaders.
The Forum created a unified scientific, technological and investment space where scientific ideas are transformed into competitive products, and startups gain access to capital and markets. Its business programme is organically integrated into the regional and federal agenda for achieving technological sovereignty and leadership of Russia, he said.
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.