NEWS

The meeting of the President of the Republic of Tatarstan, Rustam Minnikhanov, and representatives of Belaya Dacha Group was held at the RT House of Government on April 16. The parties talked about creation of a new production unit at Special Economic Zone Alabuga and acquiring a SEZ Alabuga resident status by Belaya Dacha Group.

The Sario Bio Industries company plans to become a resident of the Special Economic Zone Alabuga, the Republic of Tatarstan, representatives of the company told at the meeting with Tatarstan President Rustam Minnikhanov on April 16.

The meeting of the Board of Trustees of the Investment and Venture Fund of the Republic of Tatarstan took place at the RT House of Government on April 16. Tatarstan President Rustam Minnikhanov chaired the meeting.

An extended session of the Republic of Tatarstan Public Chamber Council session is held today at Alabuga-City Hotel conference-hall in Yelabuga. The session topic is “Experience of protection and use of cultural heritage in the Republic of Tatarstan and tasks on activating work in this field”. The event is dedicated to the International Day of Monuments and Historical Sights Protection, which is celebrated on April 18.

Kazan State Technology University has won a grant of the US Department of State for holding NSLI-Y summer programme. In this connection, Kazan State Technology University has announced a contest among the university faculty and staff willing to be the American students’ host families, the university press-service informs.

Tatarstan President Rustam Minnikhanov met with Gyorgy Gilyan, the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Hungary to the Russian Federation at the Kazan Kremlin on April 15.

Tatarstan President Rustam Minnikhanov highly assessed OAO Nizhnekamskneftekhim performance in 2009. The statement was made at the annual meeting of the company’s shareholders on April 15.

The exhibition of the French Art of the 17th-18th centuries from the collection of the State Hermitage opened at the Hermitage-Kazan Centre on April 14. The visitors will have a chance to see as many as 200 paintings, sculptures and works of applied arts telling about the artistic life in France of that period. The exhibition will be open throughout the year.

For the first time in its 60-year history, OAO Tatatneft started industrial oil production abroad. It also became Russia’s first company that won an open international tender in Syria in 2003 and concluded a contract for oil prospecting and oil and gas production on terms of the production-sharing agreement (PSA).

Gyorgy Gilyan, the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Hungary to the Russian Federation, is visiting Tatarstan on 15-16 April 2010. In Tatarstan, the Ambassador will meet with the leadership of the republic and visit the Ministry of Industry and Trade.