NEWS

Head of Kazan executive committee’s Directorate for festive events programmes Igor Sivov made a report on preparation for the 2nd international musical festival “Creation of Peace” at Kazan Mayor’s Office.

The US-based Bell Helicopter has approved the first in Russia maintenance centre for Bell helicopters. The Kazan Aviation Enterprise has been selected as the service company. The certificate-awarding ceremony took place on 16 June at the Le Bourget air show in Paris. Bell helicopters will from now on officially receive technical support in Russia.

Tatarstan has put in operation a new airfield, designed to service lightweight aircraft. The ground is located not far from the Kirbi village in Tatarstan’s Laishevo region. The opening of the new aerodrome is part of a Concept of Small Aviation Development until 2015, devised by the Transport and Road Economy Ministry.

A small and medium business event called “Import Substitution – a New Course for Small and Medium Business in Russia” has today opened at the premises of the Tatarstan Cabinet of Ministers. The organisers are the government of Tatarstan and the Russia small and medium business public organisation Opora Rossii.

The 2nd international conference “Hajj – the past and the present” will takes place in Kazan on June 29 – July 1. All Russian and the leading world hajj operators from the CIS and Balkan Peninsula, and also guests from the countries, which have gained many years of experience in organization of the Hajj – Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Malaysia, Indonesia, Qatar, and Kuwait will participate.

The oil producer Tatneft has published its non-audited consolidated intermediary short financial statement for the 1st quarter of 2009, prepared in accordance with the US GAAP reporting system.

The first Challenge Cup Challenge-2 in field hockey among women started at the Kazan Field Hockey Centre on June 21. It is a new tournament in the international sport calendar. It has been decided to organize this event in the Tatarstan capital.

Prime Minister of Tatarstan Rustam Minnikhanov has signed a resolution of the Tatarstan Government on implementation of the social programme with subsidies from the Russian Federation Pension Fund in Tatarstan in 2009.

A meeting to commemorate the 68th anniversary of the beginning of the Great Patriotic War was held in Kazan on June 22.

RT President Mintimer Shaimiev signed laws of the Republic of Tatarstan on introduction of amendments to the laws “On youth and state youth policy in the Republic of Tatarstan”, “On privatization of state property of the Republic of Tatarstan” and “On abolition of the village of Zirekle-Karan of the Bavly district of Tatarstan and introduction of amendments to the law of the Republic of Tatarstan “On establishing borders of territories and the status of the municipal formation of the Bavly municipal district” and its municipal formations”.