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On August 26, President of Tatarstan Mintimer Shaimiev met with Chairman of the Board of the Russian Pension Fund Gennady Batanov. According to Mintimer Sahimiev, the main task for the organisations of social protection is provision of full account of citizens subject to pensions and other payments. The most important is to make no mistakes and not to forget anyone, the President said. Social support has always been paid due attention, and now, in the light of reforming the system of privileges, the pension organisations face new tasks.

On August 26, Tatarstan President Mintimer Shaimiev received the best grain-growers from Nurlatsky district, Tatarstan, who according to the harvesting results of 2004 provided the total amount of grain of 188,251 tons with a record yield of 50.1 centner per hectare. As of August 25, the following estimates refer to crop yields: wheat – 28800 tons, barley – 17200 tons, rye – 4126 tons. For Tatarstan’s conditions and Russian agriculture in the whole, this achievement has no parallels in history, Mintimer Shaimiev said.

On August 25, Tatarstan President Mintimer Shaimiev received the delegation of the German company Voith, led by the Chairman of the Board, member of the board of Voith AG, Peter Edelmann. I would like to note, said the President of the republic, that we possess good experience in stable cooperation with the Federal Republic of Germany. It mostly refers to the oil and petrochemical branches, and we have been working with Voith for ten years.

August 25 saw a traditional meeting commemorating the 60th Anniversary of death of the great Tatar poet Musa Jalil and his brother-in-arms executed in 1944 by fascists. he meeting was held in First of May Square. The event was attended by Tatarstan President Mintimer Shaimiev, Deputy Chairman of the RT State Council Rimma Ratnikova, RT Minister of Culture Ildus Tarkhanov, RT Military Comissar Rim Mustaev, the poet’s daughter Chulpan Jalilova, officials of the President’s Administration, ministries, intelligentsia.

On August 24, after the meeting devoted to reconstruction of the Theatre of Opera and Ballet of Kazan, President of Tatarstan Mintimer Shaimiev made a number of important statements.
There is a widespread opinion that Tatarstan is allotted a lot of money from the federal centre to celebrate the millenium of Kazan. In fact, Mintimer Shaimiev said, the federal Programme of the social and economic development of Tatarstan had been approved before the decision about financing the celebrations in the Tatarstan capital was made.

Innovation activity of educational institutions of Tatarstan was in the spotlight at the Republican August conference of teachers, chaired by RT President Mintimer Shaimiev in Elabuga on August 21. Every third resident of Tatarstan is a pupil or student; that is why each family gets involved in educational issues. Today’s innovation processes in the republic directly depend on the quality of cadres in schools and special and higher educational institutions.

On August 20, RT President Mintimer Shaimiev opened the Tatar school No.1 fro 450 pupils in Elabuga. This day will also see opening of Shishkin’s Art School. The Art School will have an exhibition hall and oven for modeling. Three hundred pupils will be able to attend the school. The republican August pedagogical conference of education management officials of Tatarstan will also start on August 20 and will be attended by RT President Mintimer Shaimiev.

On August 19, President of the Republic of Tatarstan Mintimer Shaimiev visited Tukaevsky district of the republic. He was accompanied by RT Minister of Agriculture and Foodstuff Marat Akhmetov, Head of Naberezhnye Chelny city administration Ildar Khalikov, Tukaevsky district Head of administration Tagir Kharmatullin. The number one in the President’s agenda was visit to OAO “Voroshilovsky” where he familiarized with the situation in harvesting of vegetables and grain-crops.

The President of Tatarstan met with the Rector of the Russian Academy of Justice. On August 16, President Mintimer Shaimiev received Rector of the Academy Valentin Ershov in the Kazan Kremlin. The Russian Academy of Justice was found in 1999 by the Decree of the President of the Russian Federation. The founders are the RF Supreme Court and Higher Arbitration Court. The Academy is a state-run educational institution of higher professional education, preparing legal specialists, doing qualification upgrading and retraining judges, officials of general jurisdiction and arbitration courts, etc.

On August 10, President of the Republic of Tatarstan Mintimer Shaimiev met with President & CEO of LG International Corp. Mr. Byung-Joo Keum in the Kazan Kremlin. The participant of the meeting focused on issues of realisation of joint projects in petrochemistry and oil processing. We work with many companies in the world, thanks to what a number of projects in the sphere of petrochemistry have been implemented in the republic, Mintimer Shaimiev said. The result is a 12-18 growth per annum in that sphere.