Silk Road-2009 rally to start in Kazan
5 February 2009, Thursday
On February 6 a news conference focused on the rally will be held in Moscow. Facts about organization of the competition on the territory of Russia will be revealed for mass media, the press-service of KAMAZ-Master team reports.
The idea to unite the territory where kindred Turkic nations live appeared at the meeting of Russia and Turkmenistan’s Presidents Dmitry Medvedev and Gurbanguli Berdymukhamedov. Kazakhstan President Nursultan Nazarbayev approved the idea. The purpose of the rally is to show the world our countries with their cultural-historical values, modern economy and scientific-technical progress and consolidation of good-neighborly relations between the nations that used to live under one state in the past.
Russian side is represented in organization of the sport project by KAMAZ-Master team. The Silk Road rally is likely to become a remarkable motor sport event. The rally participants will follow an interesting route – lack of roads, steppes, sandy dunes and alkaline lands.
"Tatar-inform" agency, February, 5 2008
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