Rustam Minnikhanov met with special adviser of UNO Secretary General on sport Vilfrid Lemke
28 May 2011, Saturday
President of Tatarstan Rustam Minnikhanov met with special adviser of UNO Secretary General on sport for the good of development and peace Vilfrid Lemke.
The meeting was held in residence of RT President at Kazan Kremlin.
Rustam Minnikhanov thanked Mr Lemke for visit to the capital of Tatarstan. The parties discussed issues of preparation for World summer universiade 2013 in Kazan and other international events.
By words of Rustam Minnikhanov today Tatarstan is the region where much attention is paid to development of sport. He reminded that besides summer Universiade 2013 Tatarstan is preparing to host matches within the limits of World football championship 2018.
Tatarstan has also applied for holding World championship in water sports in 2015/17.
In the meeting took part Mayor of Kazan Ilsur Metshin, RT Minister of youth affairs, sport and tourism Rafis Burganov, Director of Department for external relations under RT President Staff – Aide to RT President on international issues Iskander Muflikhanov.
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.