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An international conference entitled “Astronomy and World Heritage: Across Time and Continents” will open at Kazan State University. The event will run on August 19 to 26 within an international astronomy congress AstroKazan 2009. The organisers are Unesco, International Astronomy Union, government of Tatarstan, Kazan State University and Tatarstan Academy of Sciences.

The Russian Pension Fund’s head Anton Drozdov has today arrived in Kazan with a working visit.

The JSC Gorbunov Kazan Aviation (KAW) Works will for the first time attend the Maks 2009 aerospace show as a company included in Russia’s United Aircraft Corporation. The international air show opens today in Zhukovsky near Moscow, says the company’s press service.

A total of 2,501 thousand tonnes of grain has been harvested in Tatarstan. Grain and pulses have been milled on a space of 929.5 thousand hectares, which is 58 percent of the grain area, told Tatar-inform the Tatarstan Agriculture and Food Ministry.

The 8 journalists from Kazan who on August 9 to 14 attended training classes for correspondents working in flashpoints have returned home. The Tatar-inform correspondent Artur Yenikeyev successfully took part in the training.

The department of charity of the RT Religious Board of Muslims together with the Turkish fund «Beazay» and the mayor’s office of Istanbul arranged recreation for 10 blind children aged 9-12 which have been learning Islam during the year by the Kazan mosque «Suleyman».

The meeting of the Commission on passenger service of the Council on CIS countries rail transport will be held on August, 18-20 in Kazan. The Commission will consider the issue of coordination of the interaction between the rail road offices.

JSC Aviacompania Tatarstan and Kazan branch of Gorky State Railways held working meetings on issues related to employment. The events were initiated by the Tatarstan Transport and Road Facilities Ministry, the ministry’s press service reports.

Tatarstan Minister of the Environment and Natural Resources Aglyam Sadretdinov has met with the Centre for Industrial Development Organisation in Russia director Sergei Korotkov. The parties discussed prospective areas for cooperation between Tatarstan and UNIDO in the field of environmental protection and energy and resource saving, ministry’s public relations officer Gulnaz Satieva.

On August 18, the head of Russian Pension Fund Anton Drozdov will make a one-day trip to Kazan, told Tatar-inform the pension fund’s Tatarstan division.