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The Russian Federation Minister of Education and Science Andrei Fursenko expressed gratitude to Tatarstan Prime Minister Rustam Minnikhanov for active participation in IX Moscow international saloon of innovations and investment.

The 8th International Investment Forum Sochi 2009 will open tomorrow. The Tatarstan’s delegation will take part in it. Tatarstan will present a display on a space of 156 square metres. The display includes thematic sections called Electronic Tatarstan (Electronic Government and ETIS systems), Oil, Gas and Chemical Cluster, Construction and Transport, Agriculture, IT Technologies, Special Economic Zone Alabuga, Nanotechnologies and Universiade 2013. According to the Tatarstan’s Venture Investment Fund, local companies will present over 100 investment and innovative projects.

The Tatarstan’s deputy Minister of Industry and Trade Linar Latypov has met in Moscow with a Swiss delegation and held a presentation of Tatarstan’s industrial and investment potential. The meeting took place at the premises of Tatarstan’s plenipotentiary representation in Russia, said the Tatarstan Industry and Trade’s press service.

Russian championship in trap-shooting opened on September 15 in a new shooting complex in Verkhneuslonsky Region of Tatarstan. RT Prime Minister Rustam Minnikhanov and Russia Shooting Association and European Shooting Confederation President Vladimir Lisin took part in the opening ceremony.

The conference, devoted to the memory of Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoy will take place in Kazan from the 5th till the 9th of October. Last year it was the 180th birthday of this outstanding Russian writer and in 2010 it will be 100 years since his death.

The 22nd of September is the World Car-Free Day. The car-free day tradition was started in France in 1998 and more than one thousand cities from 35 countries all over the world officially joined the movement in 2001.

Tatarstan President Mintimer Shaimiev sent a congratulation telegram for the name of JSC KAMAZ Director General Sergei Kogogin and “Silk Road” project head, KAMAZ-Master team leader Semyon Yakubov.

The Tatarstan representation yesterday hosted a presentation of Tatarstan’s investment potential held for the Association of European Businesses in Russia.

A meeting of Tatarstan Deputy Prime Minister – Minister of Culture Zilya Valeeva with the former Consul General of the Turkish Republic in Kazan Ahmet Ergin and his spouse Essin Ergin was held at the Republic of Tatarstan Culture Ministry on September 14. It was a farewell visit, because the consul general’s term in office is over.

Companies in France and Senegal have displayed an interest in purchasing the KZS-812 combines manufactured by JSC Tatelektromash and agricultural machines by Agromaster.