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Kazan will have city river transport, which routes are planned to be arranged along the Kazanka river. The city river transport project is designed within the Universiade 2013 event. The river itineraries will help somewhat lessen the heavy motor traffic. The city river transport’s other advantage is its close relation to suburban travelling.

On the 20th of October, the closing of the 11th International Scientific Conference of Young People "Saint-Petersburg, Pushkin, Gogol and the World Culture" took place in the Great Hall of the Russian Academy of Sciences in St. Petersburg.

The deputies of the State Council of Tatarstan committees discuss the draft budget for the year 2010. Today the Tatarstan socio-economic development forecast for the next year was considered at the meetings of the State Council committee on economy, investment and entrepreneurship and the social policy committee.

The basketball cup among the wheelchair-bound invalids starts on the 21st of October in Kazan in the framework of the I "Russia - Sports State" forum. The basketball competitions, which will take place in the "Olympus" sports complex, will bring together 2 teams from St. Petersburg - "The Basques" and "The Nevsky Alliance”, from Moscow, Tyumen, Kazan, Chelyabinsk, Lithuania, Ukraine and Belarus. The grand opening of the cup competition will be held on the 23rd of October, at 10 o'clock.

FC Barcelona midfielder Xavi expressed his thoughts on the 2-1 defeat to Rubin Kazan in the UEFA champions League by insisting that Barca would normally win such a game and said that Rubin's victory was "undeserved".

FC Rubin defeated Barcelona with the score 2:1 in the UEFA Champions League at Camp Nou on October 20. The Spanish club goalkeeper Victor Valdes has revealed that the first goal from Rubin Kazan took him by surprise.

On the 20th of October, the students and teachers of the Academy of Public and Municipal Management under the President of Tatarstan met with the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Kingdom of Luxembourg to the Russian Federation Mr. Gaston Stronk. During his call, Mr. Stronk visited the European club "Evroyus-Kazan".

Yesterday the 3-week international theoretical and practical seminar for the Turkic-speaking journalists opened in Antalya, Turkey. On the Turkish broadcasting “TRT” company’s invitation journalists representing the mass media of the Turkic-speaking countries of Eastern Europe, North Africa, Asia, the Mediterranean and from Turkey itself – all in all 96 people from 26 countries, including 5 journalists from Tatarstan - arrived here to raise the level of their skill. It should be noted that the Tatarstan delegation is the largest one among the representatives of other Turkic regions of Russia.

The last operational meeting of the organizing committee of the I All-Russian Sports Forum "Russia - Sports State," which starts on the 22 of October in Kazan, will be held on the 20 of October in the online mode at the Moscow Manege. The exhibition “Sport in painting and sculpture” will be organized there as well.

October 20, the President of the Republic of Tatarstan, Mintimer Shaimiev, visited the Kaluga Oblast where he took part in a meeting of the RF Governmental Commission for Regional Development on the issue of efficiency of executive authorities of the Russian Federation. The meeting was chaired by Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin.