Head of Tatarstan Rustam Minnikhanov met with President of FISU George Killian
16 June 2011, Thursday
President of Tatarstan Rustam Minnikhanov met with President of International University Sport Federation (FISU) George Killian.
The meeting was held in House of RT Government with participation of RT Premier Ildar Khalikov, member of FISU executive committee - President of Russian sport student council Oleg Matytsin and RT Minister of youth affairs, sport and tourism Rafis Burganov.
President of FISU George Killian arrived in Tatarstan capital for working within the frameworks of international conference dedicated to problems of developing student sport movement “Sport. Education. Culture.” The event will be held on June 16-19 in GTRK “Korston” (Kazan) with participation of heads and members of FISU executive committee.
Rustam Minnikhanov and George Killian discussed preparation and holding summer Universiade 2013, construction of sport objects, etc. Parties also discussed the issue of sport heritage of World student games and work of International educational centre of FISU that will appear in Kazan. The centre is meant to become an innovative project on training qualified staff for world student sport and support of student sport projects.
On 9 May Tatarstan Prime Minister Aleksey Pesoshin took part in a ceremony of laying flowers to the monument “The victorious soldier” dedicated to the celebrations of the Day of Victory in the Great Patriotic War (WW II) 1941-1945 and held at Arsk cemetery in Kazan.
On 8 May, speaking at a meeting held by the Rais (Head) of Tatarstan Rustam Minnikhanov in the Government House of the republic with participation of the Acting Chairman of the State Council of the republic Marat Akhmetov and the regional Prime Minister Aleksey Pesoshin, the Minister of Construction, Architecture and Housing Utilities Sector of the republic Marat Ayzatullin reported that capital overhaul of social facilities is in full swing in the republic with 170 educational facilities having been included into regional and federal programmes.
On 4 May at a briefing held in the Tatarstan Government House it was told that currently there are 92 combat veterans, the last witnesses of the Great Patriotic War (WW II) of 1941-1945, living in the republic. The briefing also informed about veterans’ support measures and how the republic is planning to celebrate the Victory Day on 9 May.
The Deputy Prime Minister of the republic Leyla Fazleeva told that names of 353 Heroes of the Soviet Union from Tatarstan “ are immortalized in street names, on memorials, in monuments and squares and, of course, in our memory”. “The Victory Day is the day of memory, mourning and joy. It is the event which today should be clearly understandable to all young people and younger generation of Tatarstan,” she said.
On 24 April, upon his arrival to the Kazan International Airport, the Defense Minister of China Dong Jun was welcomed by Tatarstan Prime Minister Aleksey Pesoshin, representatives of the General Consulate of China in Kazan and other officials