NEWS

Tatar State Puppet Theatre “Akiyat” participated in two theatrical festivals, which took place in Turkey on March 22-April 1. Tatarstan puppeteers took part in the festival at invitation of the international organization TURKSOY. Kazan puppeteers performed at two international theatrical festivals – in Eskishehir city and “Etos” in Ankara. “Akiyat” Puppet Theatre presented “Su Anasi” (“The Water Spirit” play by Gabdullah Tukai in Tatar.

Tatarstan President Rustam Minnikhanov visited industrial facilities of OAO KAMAZ as part of his working visit Naberezhnye Chelny, Tatarstan on April 7.

Teachers of Tatarstan pedagogical institutions of intermediate professional education might have a chance to undertake an internship in San Diego Miramar College as part of the republican program “Algarish”. Possible prospects of cooperation have been discussed today in Kazan at the meeting of Acting RT Deputy Minister of Education and Science Andrei Pominov and President of San Diego Miramar Communal College – Patricia Hsieh.

The acting agriculture minister of Tatarstan Marat Akhmetov has taken part in a territorial workshop conference on preparing for the spring planting. The meeting was held at the Menzelinski Zori farm in the namesake region, the ministry’s press service reports.

Specialists from the ministry told the farmers of the solutions to problems most frequently seen during the spring sowing campaign. The meeting discussed treatment of seeds, to be used in the field work.

Tatarstan President Rustam Minnikhanov is on a working visit to Naberezhnye Chelny, Tatarstan on April 7.

The work on providing housing to Great Patriotic War veterans who submitted their application for improving living conditions by March 1, 2005 is carried out in a well-organized way. As of April 1, 2010, as may as 19 veterans had not received new flats and as of April 6 there were only 5 of them left but today this issue is resolved. Tatarstan President Rustam Minnikhanov reported to Viktor Busargin, the Minister of Regional Development of the Russian Federation, in a videoconference on April 7.

The concept of improving the right embankment of the River Kazanka was presented to Tatarstan President Rustam Minnikhanov on April 7.

The German-Russian management committee of a personnel training programme for economic entities in Germany and Russia will between July and September 2010 hold the 10th meeting. The acting Tatarstan economy minister Marat Safiullin has today told it to a briefing at the Cabinet of Ministers. “The programme’s most successful graduates of various years will come to Tatarstan. Training and conferences will be arranged for them. The exact date of the event is to be decided on,” said the minister.

Marat Safiullin went on to recall the first training course for German specialists had within the presidential programme of management staff training been held in late 2009 in Tatarstan. A similar programme exists in Germany, within which small and medium business specialists take training courses.

April 6, Tatarstan President Rustam Minnikhanov is taking part in the joint meeting of the Russian Security Council and the Volga Federal District Council.

16-year-old Kazan figure skater Konstantin Milyukov returned to Tatarstan capital on April 5 night. Senior figure skating trainer-educator of the Republican Children and Youth’s Sports School of the Olympic Reserve Yelena Tarasova told Tatar-inform about it.