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The ceremony of laying flowers to the monument of great Tatar poet Gabdulla Tukai has been held in Kazan today, on his birthday. The event took place in the Square of Gabdulla Tukai. President of Tatarstan Rustam Minnikhanov, speaker of State Council Farid Mukhametshin, Mayor of Kazan Ilsur Metshin, members of creative unions of republic, laureates of RT State award named after Gabdulla Tukai, officials of creative intelligentsia and public organizations, students and teachers of educational cultural and art institutions came to honor the memory of great poet.

Delegation of Yamal-Nenets Autonomous Area headed by the Governor Dmitri Kobylkin visited Kazan federal university on Aril, 25. Head of Yamal was acomapnied by Tatarstan President Rustam Minnikhanov. Guests visited Museum of Kazan University. Dmitri Kobylkin was very interested in historical auditorium № 7 where Vladimir Lenin studied.

The project of purifying basins by the example of lake “Sredni Kaban” (Kazan) was presented to President of Tatarstan Rustam Minnikhanov by officials of PACE company (PACE advanced water engineering) headed by its founder Johann Perslou. The presentation took place in House of RT government within the meeting of RT President Rustam Minnikhanov and President of All-Russia public organization of small and medium entrepreneurship “OPORA Rossii” Sergei Borisov. At the beginning of meeting Rustam Minnikhanov and Sergei Borisov exchanged opinions about state of entrepreneurship in Russia, prospects of developing small and medium business as the basis for forming middle class. Rustam Minnikhanov noted that today it is entrepreneurship that intensively implements and uses innovations in its activity.

Over 60 companies representing Russia, Canada and the UK take part in the 6th Kazan Venture Fair that has today opened in the capital of Tatarstan.Attendees at the opening ceremony were President of Tatarstan Rustam Minnikhanov, Prime Minister Ildar Khalikov, Russian Association of Direct and Venture Investment executive director Albina Nikkonen and other officials.