Deputy chairman of RF Government Dmitry Kozak: every region should have an approved investment development program of housing and communal services
21 July 2011, Thursday
Preparation of Russian regions for heating season, prospects of forming tariffs for housing and communal services, ensuring transparency of housing and communal complex have been discussed at a call conference held by Deputy chairman of RF Government Dmitry Kozak with authorities of all chiefs of RF regions. The meeting was held at Situation centre of RF Government (Moscow). The main topic was execution of requirements of federal legislation in terms of reformation of housing and communal complex by RF subjects.
Tatarstan Republic was presented by Prime Minister Ildar Khalikov (conference hall, Kazan Kremlin). In the meeting also took part RT Minister of construction, architecture and housing Irek Faizullin, Head of Department for construction, transport, communications, housing-communal and road facilities at RT Cabinet Staff Ildar Sibgatullinand others.
Dmitry Kozak assessed preparatory works for heating season throughout the country as satisfactory. Though there are some questions regarding several regions. Deputy chairman of RF Government believes that preparatory works should speed up and regional authorities should realize that today preparation for winter period and securing citizens are “number one” priorities.
Every region should have an approved investment development program of housing and communal services, Dmitry Kozak reminded. By his words, absence of such document means “total non-compliance with federal legislation”.
Participants of the meeting discussed as well the issue of approving standards of information disclosure by organizations, implementing activity in the sphere of management for multi-apartment houses.
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