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Tatarstan President Rustam Minnikhanov conducted a meeting on commissioning housing and capital repairs of blocks of flats in the RT House of Government on April 3. It was held in a videoconference format for the municipal districts of Tatarstan.

April 15, KAMAZ-Master team will take part in the presentation of the International Silk Road Rally of Dakar Series 2010 which is to become the first in the –five-year series dedicated to the Olympics 2014. For the first time in history of the Russian motorsport, the marathon of such level will be held only in the territory of Russia starting in Saint Petersburg and running to Sochi, the capital of the Winter Olympic Games 2014. The organizer of the world-known rally-marathon Dakar, the French company ASO, will be involved in organization of the rally.

The award ceremony at which anniversary medals of the 65th Anniversary of the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945 were presented to 49 Great Patriotic War veterans, former prisoners of fascist concentration camps, citizens of Leningrad under the siege was held at the Kazan City Hall on April 2. Mayor of Kazan Ilsur Metshin presented the awards.

A master class for the volunteer movements’s leaders was yesterday held at the Idea technology park in Kazan. The workshop was conducted by Sandra Kamerbeek, a specialist at the Netherlands social development centre MOVISIE in Utrecht, visiting Kazan within the Tatarstan-Netherlands project Heritage. The event was initiated by Idea Consulting and Kazan league of volunteer translators Need for SPEAK.

Ms Kamerbeek went on to share out with the Kazan audience methods of building an efficient volunteer movement. She told about online volunteering, increasing its popularity over the world, a way to help people from any part of the world by using information technologies. Volunteers across the world provide translation service, consult, help each other study foreign languages, hold charity events, et cetera.

To involve volunteers, an association now needs to have a clear answer to the question of how a volunteer can benefit by participating in its activities. The “benefits” mainly include gaining experience, contacts, new acquaintances, moral satisfaction from the work, self-fulfilment and other non-material preferences, the expert specified.

Ceremony of bestowing the Russian Federation Government awards in culture field for 2009 is held in Moscow today. One of the awards will be given for creating the museum complex in Yelabuga to Tatarstanians - acting Vice-Premier – Culture Minister of Tatarstan Zilya Valeyeva, head of Yelabuga Region Ilshat Gafurov (co-authors of the concept), author of the tourism development programme, former deputy head of Yelabuga Region Lilia Nurgatina, author of the complex reconstruction and renovation project, head of Yelabuga Region executive committee Farit Khanifov, author of museum expositions, the museum-reserve director Gulzada Rudenko.

Incumbent Vice-Premier – acting Culture Minister of Tatarstan Zilya Valeyeva has congratulated Tatarstan citizens of the Day of Belarus and Russia Nations Unity on April 2.

President of Tatarstan Rustam Minnikhanov held visiting meeting on developing special economic zone of industrial type “Alabuga”. It was held in administrative-business centre of special economic zone “Alabuga”. Acting minister of construction, architecture and housing Marat Khusnullin, acting chairman of RT Committee on developing small and medium-size enterprises Timur Shagivaleev, Director General of special economic zone “Alabuga” Vasily Kudryashov took part in the meeting.

As part of the working visit to the Kama zone on April 1, Tatarstan President Rustam Minnikhanov visited the urban-type village of Kamskiye Polyani. The Head of the republic and the accompanying persons got acquainted with the Kamskiye Polyani Industrial Park and participated in the symbolic launch ceremony of two factories that had opened in 2009. Those are the factory of multifilament polypropylene yarn with capacity of a thousand tonnes per year and the stretch film factory with capacity of 9 thousand tonnes per year. Investments to the Kamskiye Polyani Industrial Park made 484 mln rubles in 2009.

April 1, the meeting of the republican construction headquarters of the Complex of oil-refining and petrochemical plants has taken place in OAO TANEKO with participation of Tatarstan President Rustam Minnikhanov. The President of Tatarstan inspected facilities of the first launch complex, listened to reports by heads of contracting agencies.