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January 30, Dmitry Medvedev, the President of Russia and Raul Castro, the Cuba State Council and Cabinet of Ministers’s Chairman, following negotiations, signed a memorandum on strategic cooperation between Russia and Cuba, said the Kremlin’s press service.
Within the framework of the visit, the auto maker KAMAZ signed a general agreement on cooperation with the Cuban firm Tradex, that provides for building an assembly facility to produce KAMAZ vehicles in Cuba.

January 30, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev congratulated chemist, academician of Russian Academy of Science Alexander Konovalov on the 75th anniversary, the press-service of the Kremlin informs.

January 30, Rustam Minnikhanov, Tatarstan Prime Minister and Sergei Levkin, general director of the special economic zone "Alabuga" discussed issues related to building production facilities in Alabuga zone.

KSU Rector Myakzyum Salakhov met with Carl Zeiss concern representatives at the university on January 29.

January 30, President of the Republic of Tatarstan Mintimer Shaimiev congratulated an academician of Russian Academy of Science and Honored Member of Tatarstan Academy of Science, chief scientific associate of the Institute of Space Research and head of the largest Russian scientific school on problems of astrophysics of high energies, Rashid Syunyaev on receiving the international scientific prize - King Faisal Award.

250 copies of the book “To father with love” were given to the Tatarstan National Library. They are the present of Tatarstan President Mintimer Shaimiev to the largest library of the republic.

The World Economic Forum’s founder Klaus Schwab will in June 2009 visit the Tatarstan’s capital Kazan. The Prime Minister of Tatarstan Roustam Minnikhanov and Klaus Schwab agreed on it at a meeting on 28 January in Davos.

Mintimer Shaimiev congratulated Kirill, Metropolitan of Smolensk and Kaliningrad, on his election of Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia.

International theoretical and practical symposium “Islamic studies in modern Russia and CIS: progress, problems, prospect” will take place in the Centre of Eurasian and international researches of Kazan State University.

One more twin city of Elabuga (along with Alexin of Tula region) has appeared - Turkish city Safranbolu. Agreement on establishment of twin cities ties was signed in Elabuga by the government prosecutor Ilshat Gafurov and deputy government prosecutor of Safranbolu Jalchyn Ozjorek.