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An event called Days of Tatar Youth will be held on July 5-12 in Tatarstan. This year’s is the 19th time, Idel youth director Milyausha Sharapova told a briefing at the Tatmedia agency.
She said that 150 delegates from about 40 regions in Russia and near and far abroad states, including Ukraine, Belarus and Azerbaijan, would participate in the event.

Days of the Republic of Azerbaijan Culture are due to be held in Tatarstan on July 2-4.

July 2, Tatarstan President Mintimer Shaimiev was in Arkhangelsk where he attended the meeting of the Presidium of the State Council of the Russian Federation on increasing power efficiency of the Russian economy. The meeting was chaired by Russian President Dmitry Medvedev.

The poultry farmers of Tatarstan have since the top of the year produced 53 thousand tonnes of meat, 120 percent of the last year’s result.

Tatarstan Prime Minister Rustam Minnikhanov visited the Russian team’s staff in the Student Village before the 25th Belgrade Summer Universiade opening ceremony on July 1.

Turkmenistan President Gurbanguly Berdymukhamedov invited Russian President Dmitry Medvedev to come to Turkmenistan on a visit timed to the finishing day of the international autorally Kazan-Ashkhabad.
The Russian President accepted the invitation with gratitude, the Turkmenistan television reports.

The 17th international conference on chemical thermodynamics began at Tatarstan Academy of Science in Kazan on June 30. It is one of the largest and most significant conferences in Russia. Nearly 400 Russian and foreign specialists participate in the event.

The opening night of the ballet based on folklore story and Gabdullah Tukai’s poem “Shurale” was held in Saint Petersburg at Mariinsky Theatre. It has been recreated in the theatre repertoire in the year of composer Farid Yarullin’s anniversary.

An educational seminar for heads of republican ministries and departments began on June 29 in Singapore. For two weeks, Tatarstan state officials will learn public administration technologies and elaboration of strategies for developing economy and social field sectors, which are under their supervision.

The autonomous non-commercial organization “Executive directorate of the 27th World Summer Universiade of 2013 in Kazan” has been founded with the purpose to organize and hold the Games-2013 in Tatarstan capital.
Director of the municipal unitary enterprise “Directorate of the Universiade-2013” Vladimir Leonov heads the executive directorate.