NEWS

A news conference has today been held at the Tatarstan agency for print and mass communications Tatmedia, dedicated to helping unemployed and homeless people. The Tatarstan Human Rights Commissioner Rasheet Vagizov, officials from the Labour, Employment and Social Security Ministry, Interior Ministry and Health Ministry answered questions from journalists.

The Tatneft oil producer on November 22, 2009, received a letter from the Syrian Minister of Oil and Mineral Resources, confirming the location of a plot for development within the South Kishma field, said today the company’s press service.

The display presented by Tatarstan was marked highly and awarded the Grand Prix at an exhibition within the Forum of CIS Agricultural Producers that late last week ended in Ashgabad. The event was attended by the Tatarstan Agriculture and Food Minister Marat Akhmetov and heads of some Tatarstan-based agrarian holding companies.

A presentation of books Textbook on the Arabic Language. Part 1 – Beginners and “Textbook on the Arabic Language. Part 2 – Intermediate took place at the Oriental House of Tatar State University of Pedagogy and Humanities on November 30.

The 3^rd World Congress of Compatriots living abroad was opened in Moscow on December 1. Tatarstan President Mintimer Shaimiev took part in the event.

A meeting of Tatarstan President Mintimer Shaimiev and the delegation of the OAO Federal Grid Company of the Unified Energy Systems led by Oleg Budargin, the Chairman of the Board of the company took place at the Kazan Kremlin on November 30.

The enlarged meeting of the Academic Council of Kazan State University to mark the university’s 205^th anniversary was held in the university assembly hall on November 30. Tatarstan President Mintimer Shaimiev attended the meeting.

A special programme called Talking to Vladimir Putin: Continuation will on December 3 at 12 pm be broadcast live by the Rossiya and vesti.ru TV channels. The JSC Kamaz staff is preparing for the call-in session.

A selection tour of the world’s largest international festival of live music “Emergenza” will take place for the first time in Kazan in January-February 2010.

Tatneft has become a laureate in three nominations at the 11th Russian competition called The Best Annual Statement. Over the 10 years it has existed, the competition has brought together 327 participants from 11 countries representing all the economy branches. It is annually organised by the leading rating agency Expert RA. The main purpose of the competition is to attract attention of the business community to the issue of making and promoting annual statements as an effective instrument of increasing investment appeal of Russian companies, as well as of raising their capitalisation.