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The award ceremony of Michel Batisse Award for Biosphere Reserve Management is to take place this week in the Republic of Korea as part of the session of the Bureau of the International Coordinating Council of the Man and the Biosphere.

Tatarstan will host the 3rd Russian Muslim youth festival. The festival is organized by the RT Ministry of Youth, Sport and Tourism, the Directorate for religious affairs under the RT Cabinet of Ministers, the RT Muslims’ Religious Board, Russian Islamic University, the RF Federal National and Cultural Autonomy of Tatars, the Youth centre Idel.

The Kamaz automaker’s general director Sergei Kogogin has met with the head of Kazan State University. The meeting resulted in signing an agreement on strategic partnership for the term of 5 years, reports the company’s press service.

Traditional exclamations ‘Karavon! Karavon!’ and bell-ringing opened the Russian Folklore Festival ‘Karavon’ in Nikolskoye village Saturday, May 23.

Peal and a public prayer in memory of Saint Equal-to-the Apostles brothers Cyril and Mefody opened celebrations dedicated to the Day of Slavic Written Language and Culture.

The ceremony in honour of Ak Bars hockey team, the Russian champions, the first champions of the Continental Hockey League, the first winners of the Gagarin Cup, was held in the evening. Tatarstan President Mintimer Shaimiev attended the ceremony.

Prime minister of the Republic of Tatarstan Rustam Minnihanov has met with the head of Federal Board for government-owned property Jury Petrov at the RT Government House on May 22. Issues of effective management in the field of government-owned property in subjects of the Russian Federation were discussed at the meeting.

OAO "Kazan helicopter factory" has signed contracts on delivery of helicopters "Аnsat" to Laos and Kazakhstan. Deputy chief designer of the helicopter Alexey Garipov has informed about it on May, 21 at the helicopter exhibition HeliRussia-2009 taking place in Moscow.

SOLLERS and SsangYong Motor companies discussed prospects of cooperation for the nearest period and agreed starting manufacture of new SUV-crossover SsangYong C200 in Tatarstan in 2010. Assembly of the new model will start in Korea during the 1st quarter of 2010 and production of С200 in Russia will begin in the shortest possible time thereafter.

Majority of Tatarstan schools will switch to "Linux" based open source software by September 1, head of information policy department of Ministry of Education and Science RT Nadezhda Sulimova informed on May, 21.