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The Republic of Tatarstan Rugby federation was officially set up on September 12.

34 cars and 16 trucks made it to Ashgabad to the finish of the first Silk Way Rally. Carlos Sainz in the car race and Firdaus Kabirov in the trucks race won overall after a great week of fighting and challenges among the leaders.

The Prime Minister of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin approved the member list of the Organizing committee for preparation and organization of the First All-Russian sport forum “Russia – Sport Power”, which will be held in Kazan on October 22-25 in Kazan.
Chairman of the committee will be Vice-Premier, President of Russian Chess Federation Alexander Zhukov. His deputies are Tatarstan President Mintimer Shaimiev, Russia Minister of Sport, Tourism and Youth Policy Vitaly Mutko, First Vice-Premier of Russian Olympic Committee, president of All-Russian Association of Summer Olympic Sport Sergei Bogdanchikov, deputy head of the Russian Federation President’s Board for Maintaining Work of the State Council, secretary of the Olympic Council under RF President Alexei Kulakovsky.

Barcelona chief architect Jose Asebillo and mayor of Belville – the Universiade-2009 village in Belgrade Ranko Tarasevich are in Kazan these days with the purpose to hold consultations.

Tatarstan could be the pilot region within a new programme on housing capital repair, said the Tatarstan Minister of Construction, Architecture and Housing Marat Khousnoullin at the Cabinet of Ministers.

RT Prime Minister Rustam Minnikhanov received CEO of Samsung Electronics Rus Sun Hong Lim at the Republic of Tatarstan Cabinet of Ministers. The meeting was focused on cooperation in the field of informational technologies.

September 10, the VII International theoretical and practical Conference "Infocommunicational Technologies of Global Information-oriented Society" started in Kazan. The conference is a first-rate annual event in the field of Informatisation and communications. More than 400 experts for informational technologies, representing RF and RT authorities; representatives of international and Russian companies, young scientists and scientific workers of higher school, experts in the field of informational systems and technologies from subjects of Russian Federation and foreign countries annually become participants of the conference.

Rustam Minnikhanov, the Head of the Government of the Republic of Tatarstan, received Ahmet Ergin, the Consul General of Turkey in Kazan, in his cabinet, situated in the RT Government’s House.

President of the Republic of Tatarstan Mintimer Shaimiev and his spouse left for the Republic of Turkey on regular vacation.

KAMAZ-Master team crew led by Vladimir Chagin won in the 6th lap of Silk Road-2009 rally-raid. KAMAZ truck number 204 covered the 514 kilometres long special stage in 5 hours 29 minutes.