Alexander Kogogin met with Kastamonu Entegre Director for Development
15 January 2009, Thursday
January 14, Tatarstan’s Industry and Trade Minister Alexander Kogogin met with the Turkish firm Kastamonu Entegre’s Director for Development Mr. Onur Guven.
The main purpose of the working visit is to hold negotiations on setting up a timber-processing facility in Tatarstan.
Kastamonu Entegre Agac Sanayi ve Ticaret A.S. plans to invest to new production factories in the Russian Federation. Availability of raw materials, energy and logistics are factors of future investments. The company had displayed an interest in the Tatarstan-based Alabuga special economic zone at the Economic Forum in Sochi in September 2008.
Mr Onur Guven considers Tatarstan as the best location in Russia for investment, as well as the Alabuga zone is the most suitable territory to place the production facilities.
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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