Tatarstan-Finland Business Forum has opened in Kazan
3 February 2010, Wednesday
The opening ceremony of the Tatarstan-Finland Business Forum was held in the Mirage Hotel on February 3.
The Finnish delegation led by Paavo Väyrynen, the Minister of Foreign Trade and Development, includes officials of ministries and agencies as well as CEOs of Finnish companies.
Greeting the Finnish delegation on behalf of the RT Government, RT First Deputy Prime Minister Boris Pavlov said that the Business Forum was a logical result of fruitful cooperation between Tatarstan and Finland.
As long-term directions for cooperation development, Boris Pavlov mentioned innovation projects that are to get all-sided support of the RT Government. Tatarstan with its SEZ Alabuga and Technopolis boasts favourable environment for innovations.
Paavo Väyrynen declared it was a big honour for him to open the Tatarstan-Finland Busines Forum. “For the first time I visited Kazan in 2007 for the meeting of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development and had very good impressions.”
On 20 January in the evening Russian President Vladimir Putin called Tatarstan State Counselor Mintimer Shaimiev and congratulated him with his birthday. During the conversation Vladimir Putin stated that he is happy to hear bright voice of Mintimer (Sharipovich) and wished him good health and all the best.
On 20 January, congratulating Tatarstan State Counselor Mintimer Shaimiev with his birthday, the Chairman of the Russian Government Mikhail Mishustin wrote in his telegramme: “Being a famous and political leader, you have made a substantial contribution into modern development of Tatarstan and have earned the deep respect and gratitude of residents of the republic.
On January 20, the First President of Tatarstan, State Counsellor of the republic Mintimer Shaimiev celebrates its 89 birthday.
He received numerous congratulations from the state and regional leaders, public figures, figures in science, education and culture and residents of the country and Tatarstan.
On 16 October in the Kazan Kremlin Tatarstan State Counselor Mintimer Shaymiev, who is also the Chairman of the Trustees Council of the regional Revival Fund, had a meeting with the Director General of the State Hermitage Mikhail Piotrovsky, who came to Kazan to take part in a ceremony of opening a new exposition “The Yusupovs. Luxury across the Centuries” at the Hermitage Kazan Exposition Center and which has been prepared especially for the 20th anniversary of the Hermitage’s first representational centre established in 2005 by celebrations of the Kazan Millennium.
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