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The German BWF Company plans to organize the production of industrial filters in Kazan. This became known at a meeting of the company management with the Tatarstan Minister of Economy Marat Safiullin.

The delegation of a large German concern BWF, headed by its Director General Dr. Wolfgang Schmid.With, arrived with a two-day introductory visit to the Republic of Tatarstan BWF is a company producing the high quality industrial Air Filters. The purpose of their visit - the preliminary acquaintance with the economy, industry, social sphere of the republic, solution of the issue of further cooperation and the investment project implementation. Soon the BWF company plans to open their factory in Russia, and Kazan is considered to be a place of its location. The Tatarstan Economy Minister Marat Safiullin expressed his appreciation of the choice of Tatarstan as a place for an investment project realization, and said that the republic has all the conditions for its successful development.

For reference:

The BWF Company was founded in 1896;

Its Headquartered is in Ofingen, Bavaria (Germany);

The subsidiaries are in China, the Czech Republic, India, Italy, Turkey and the United States;

Location - over 50 countries;

The company's turnover in 2008 came up to 161 million euros;

The annual sales - about 6 million ready-to-install filter materials;

The company is the world leader in filtration with the use of the textile filtering materials.

A new venture for the production of the KAMAZ trucks’ components - OOO" Leon Vayering Systems (RUS) - will be opened in Naberezhnye Chelny on the 30^th of October, in the Kama Industrial Park "Master", which is a satellite of KAMAZ in the production of components .

The company was created by the "Leony" group (Germany), a world leader in the electric wires, cables, conductors and cable systems, optical fiber and various electronic devices manufacturing. It will supply the KAMAZ with modern and high quality automobile harnesses.

The words “Kazan university” will remain in the name of Volga Federal University, which is to be founded in Kazan, Mayor of Kazan Ilsur Metshin said on October 27.

The International Hockey Federation President Leandro Negre is convinced that Tatarstan’s model of working in field hockey development has no analogues in Russia. He stated it at a meeting with RT First Deputy Prime Minister Boris Pavlov as a part of All-Russia sports forum “Russia – Sports Power” in Kazan.

According to Russian President Dmitry Medvedev’s recent statement, the heads of Tatarstan ministries and agencies in charge of sports federations do not have to leave their posts, the Tatarstan Minister of Youth, Sport and Tourism told at a briefing on the results of the Russia – Country of Sports Forum on October 26.

The world track-and-field championship among juniors might be held in Kazan in 2012. According to the Tatarstan Minister of Youth, Sport and Tourism, Marat Bariev, who told about it at a briefing on October 26, the proposal was received during the “Russia – Sports State” forum.

The Bahrain World Economic Summit started today, on the 26 of October, in Manama, the capital of the Kingdom of Bahrain. The delegation of the Republic of Tatarstan, which includes the Plenipotentiary Representative of the Republic of Tatarstan to the Turkish Republic Mr. Gimatdinov and the director-general of the Investment and Finance company "Linova" Mr. Yakupov, takes part in the forum.

The Kazan Central Stadium ticket offices have started to sell tickets for the Champions League match Rubin (Russia) - Barcelona (Spain), which will take place on November 4, 2009. The tickets minimal price is 1,500 roubles, “Dribling” sport-marketing agency reforms.

Tickets can be purchased at the stadium ticket offices, the “Bileton” ticket offices, which are situated in majority of the city’s malls (“Tandem”, “Bahetle”, “Park House”, “Mega”) and in the Internet at www.bileton.ru.

The official awarding ceremony of the First International Sports Documentaries Festival was held in entertainment complex Korston on 24th of October within the framework of the First All Russian Sports Forum ‘Russia – country of sports’.

October 25, participants and winners of the 25th World Summer Universiade-2009 in Belgrade were honored at the Kazan Martial Arts Palace in the course of final competitions of the Tatarstan University Sports Decade.