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The Universiade 2013 first facilities will be commissioned in 2010 and by the new academic year populated with students, Prime Minister of Tatarstan Roustam Minnikhanov told the Tatarstan 6th Congress of Students’s plenary meeting.

“Our plans include completing before the new academic year the first section of the Universiade village, so that students from other towns can live there,” noted the head of government. “Many students will first be able to live in the Universiade village and after the Universiade 2013 finishes, in a campus.”

While speaking about the construction of the upcoming World Student Games 2013 sports venues, Roustam Minnikhanov said another 6 to 7 sports centres were before the year end to be launched, and another 12 to 13 sites by the May holidays next year. “We are going to complete the bigger part of the Universiade 2013 sports venues by the end of next year, except the 45-thousand soccer stadium and the Aquatics Palace,” the head of government shared. “We need to complete the entire Universiade complex in 2011.”

JSC Tatneft continues to develop a project on monitoring motor vehicles using the GPS technology. A total of 5,218 units of transport have so far been connected to the satellite navigation system. This is one of the largest projects involving satellite monitoring in Russia.

The delegation of Tatarstan led by Prime Minister Roustam Minnikhanov is on 9-11 December making a working visit to Austria.

The delegation is in the course of the visit scheduled to hold business meetings and sign a memorandum of cooperation between the UN Organisation for Industrial Development and Republic of Tatarstan.

The Prime Minister Minnikhanov will take part in a meeting with the UNIDO general director Kandeh Yumkella, during which UNIDO and the Republic of Tatarstan are expected to sign a memorandum of cooperation.

Meetings with the Federal Economy Chamber of Austria president Christoph Leitl and the Bertsch company president Hubert Bertsch are scheduled as well. During them, the Tatarstan party is to conduct a presentation of Tatarstan’s economic and investment potential.

The delegation of the Republic of Tatarstan led by RT prime Ministre Rustam Minnikhanov is visiting Austria. On the agenda is the meeting of the RT Prime Minister and the UNIDO Director General during which a Memorandum of cooperation between the UNIDO and the Republic of Tatarstan will be signed.

December 8, Farid Mukhametshin, the Chairman of the RT State Council, met with representatives of Tatar youth associations of Russian regions at the republican parliament. Next year, as part of the 20th anniversary of the Days of Tatar Youth it is planned to create a council of Tatar Youth.

December 9, the RT Ministry of Industry and Trade hosted a meeting with the head of Finpro – the Centre of Trade under the Embassy of Finland in the Russian Federation. The meeting was conducted by Deputy Minister Oleg Vlasov.

The parties exchanged information, discussed possible directions for development of cooperation and the format of the ongoing visit of the business delegation from Finland to Tatarstan next January.

The Tatarstan’s oil companies in November this year extracted 2,677.015 thousand tonnes of oil, or 104.2 percent of that in November 2008. JSC Tatneft recovered 2,127.767 thousand tonnes of that, achieving an increase of 4.4 percent versus the last year result.

Over the 11 months, Tatarstan’s output has been 29,750.952 thousand tonnes of oil, of which Tatneft has recovered 23,655.692 thousand tonnes of oil, or 101.76 percent of the plan. The share of smaller oil companies in Tatarstan’s total oil recovery has been 20.5 percent.

The Tatneft group of companies, including the subsidiaries outside Tatarstan, has over the 11 months extracted 23.891 thousand tonnes of oil, 415 above the target.

The first international specialised exhibition Nano Technologies. Kazan 2009 and the 10th international workshop conference Nano Technologies and Industry have today opened at the premises of Kazan Fairs. Attendees at the opening ceremony were the Tatarstan Prime Minister First Deputy Boris Pavlov, Rosnano Department of Liaison with Federal and Regional Authorities head Dmitry Krinistky, Tatarstan acting Minister of Industry and Trade Vladimir Soloviev, Tatarstan State Council committee on economy, investment and entrepreneurship chairman Marat Galeyev, Russian Association of Founders Ivan Dibrov, Tatarstan Commerce and Industry Chamber chairman Shamil Ageyev, Tatarstan Centre of Standardisation, Metrology and Certification director Valery Gogin and others. The deputy Prime Minister Boris Pavlov said at the opening the today’s event was to focus on one of the most promising areas of the present-day technology. “The present-day stage of technological progress involves some types of modern technologies – information technologies, bio technologies and nano technologies. The government of Tatarstan is strongly involved in supporting and establishing relations between participants engaged in the field of creating and developing the nano industry. We have over the past two years worked hard coordinating the efforts towards developing the nano industry, and we have had many partners, the chief of which has been the Rosnano state corporation,” he said.

About 30 applications from Tatarstan-based enterprises and associations are at various stages of examination at the Rosnano state corporation that implements projects involving nano technologies.

The Rosnano Department of Liaison with Federal and Regional Authorities head Dmitry Krinitsky has today said it in a statement to journalists, following the opening of the first specialised international exhibition Nano Technologies. Kazan 2009. According to him, the corporation is reviewing all the Tatarstan-submitted projects. “There is a certain procedure all projects have to be put through. I cannot specify particular stages for particular projects right now. About 12 projects from Tatarstan are at a near-completion stage,” said Dmitry Krinitsky.

RT State Council Chairman Farid Moukhametshin has presented state awards of the Russian Federation and the Republic of Tatarstan at Kazan Kremlin today. 73 people have been awarded with orders, medals and honorary ranks of the Russian Federation and Tatarstan.

“It is a pleasure for me to present state awards of the Russian Federation and the Republic of Tatarstan to outstanding people of the republic. Their work contributes to success of our common accomplishments for development of our republic,” Farid Moukhametshin said to the ceremony participants.