NEWS

January 21, the meeting of Tatarstan President Mintimer Shaimiev and the Chairman of the Union of Composers of the Republic of Tatarstan, a laureate of the Gabdulla Tukai State Prize, people’s artist of Russia and Tatarstan Rashid Kalimullin, was held at the Kazan Kremlin.

RT President Mintimer Shaimiev has signed the Law “On development of small and medium entrepreneurship in the Republic of Tatarstan” today.

Dmitri Medvedev, the President of the Russian Federation, Vladimir Putin, the Chairman of the Government of the Russian Federation, Mohammed Hosni Mubarak, the President of Egypt, Abdullah Gul, the President of the Republic of Turkey, and many others sent their greetings to congratulate Mintimer Shaimiev, the President of the Republic of Tatarstan, on his birthday.

The voluntary movement department of the 27th World Summer Universoade-2013 executive directorate plans to realize several large-scale projects aimed at teaching English to the population and attracting volunteers.

Leader of PNA Mahmoud Abbas plans to visit Kazan next week. Head of Palestine will come to the Tatarstan capital as part of his official visit to Russia.

Ballet dancers of the Musa Jalil Opera and ballet Theatre have given about 30 performances in Germany, France, Austria and Belgium. Altogether the tour includes 70 performances and will last till January 31 after which the performers will come back to Kazan.

January18, the signing of the agreement between OAO Kazan Electrotechnical Plant and OOO Ines Systems on development and introduction of the automated operation system of industrial process at the plant was held in the RT Ministry of Industry and Trade on January 18.

Tatarstan President Mintimer Shaimiev met with Matti Anttonen, the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Finland to the Russian Federation, at the Kazan Kremlin on January 19.

The Tatarstan Cabinet of Ministers has today held a briefing on the preparation for the national census in 2010. The census is to be conducted between October 14 and 25, told journalists the Federal State Statistics Service Tatarstan branch chief Valery Kandilov.

The last all-Russian census was held 7 years ago. Between 1989 and 2002 in as few as 24 Russian constituents, including autonomous districts, population increased. Tatarstanians became 137.6 thousand more. In 2002 therefore, a total of 3,779.3 thousand people resided in Tatarstan. The increase in population was mainly accounted for by migration.

According to Kandilov, the 2002 census database was widely used in the development of the programme of social and economic development for Tatarstan and its municipalities till 2010, programme of development and placement of productive forces based on a cluster approach till 2020 and for planned period till 2030, as well as the programme of rural areas’s social development till 2010. The obtained data served as a foundation in the formulation of Tatarstan’s national projects in the field of education, healthcare, living conditions improvement and agricultural sector.

Production of autos will in January 2010 double versus the same month last year, told the Ren TV Naberezhnye Chelny channel the auto plant’s deputy general director Yuri Klochkov.

The plan for this year includes increasing workers’s motivation as well. “Our task is to raise salaries. They are still under 12 thousand, we need this year to increase them to 16 thousand,” said Yuri Klochkov. The auto giant’s position has stabilised, he enhanced.