NEWS

The membership of the 5th International Muslim Film Festival ‘Golden Minbar’ has been approved. The head of the concourse commission is film expert and critic Dr. Hans-Joachim Schlegel (Germany). On June 30 the concourse commission will start work on choosing films for demonstration at the 5th International Muslim Film Festival ‘Golden Minbar’.

The first hotel of the international brand ‘Ibis’ in Tatarstan opened in Kazan down town – on Pravobulachnaya Street on Saturday June 20. Tatarstan Prime Minister Rustam Minnikhanov and the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the French Republic in the Russian Federation Jean de Gliniasty took part in the opening ceremony of the hotel ‘Ibis Kazan’.

The head of Tatarstan Government Rustam Minnikhanov held a meeting with the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the French Republic to the Russian Federation Jean de Gliniasty at RT Cabinet of Ministers on June 19.

On 20th of June, national Tatar holiday Sabantuy was held in Kazan. Within the framework of the festivities horse races took place in the international horse-racing complex, which was visited by the President of Tatarstan Mintimer Shaimiev.

June 19, President of Tatarstan Mintimer Shaimiev took part in the opening ceremony of the new building of the RT Supreme court. The opening was also attended by the head of the Tatarstan State Council Farid Mukhametshin, deputy head of the Russian Federation Supreme court Vladimir Solovyev, head of the RT Supreme court Gennady Baranov.

Admission limit to budgetary places at Tatarstan universities will be increased for some specialties in order to train 1152 specialists for the Universiade-2013 in Kazan.

June 19, a meeting of Tatarstan President Mintimer Shaimiev and the delegation of the French Republic headed by the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of France to the Russian Federation Jean de Gliniasty has been held today at Kazan Kremlin.

The English language in secondary educational institutions of Tatarstan will be taught from a new angle. Tatarstan Deputy Minister of Education and Science Andrei Pominov stated it at a press-conference at Tatmedia agency.

The US corporation Fluor Energy and Chemical Products’s chief Peter Osterweer has named the Taneko oil refining and petrochemical project in Tatarstan’s Nizhnekamsk the most complex one he had worked on.