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The new project of the Yelabuga Museum-Reserve 'Weekends in Yelabuga' was presented at the first enlarged meeting of the Council for development of tourism in Yelabuga. This two-day trip includes eight excursion routes to choose from and different entertaining activities. It is supposed that such weekend tourism should be popular given that inhabitants of the neighboring cities come and go sightseeing in Yelabuga, and now they will have a chance to do in a more organized way.

The 12th Moscow International Salon of Industrial Property Archimedes gathered together more than 800 participant among whom a number of Tatarstan companies were also present with their developments.

The Tatarstan deputy industry and trade minister Linar Latypov will tomorrow meet with the Director of the Lotaringia Pole at the French Chamber of Commerce in Russia Jean-Paul Moreau, said the ministry’s press service.

The Tatarstan first deputy Prime Minister Boris Pavlov has today attended the Italian economic forum in Moscow, held at the premises of the international trade centre, reports the Cabinet of Ministers’s press service.

Rockwool International has confirmed its intention to construct a plant in the Tatarstan’s special economic zone Alabuga, said the company’s CEO Elco van Heel at a meeting with the Tatarstan prime minister Roustam Minnikhanov.

The XVIII Moscow Festival of Tatar Song “The Motherland Melodies” closed with a gala-concert at the Chamber Hall of the International Music House.

The mayor of Kazan Ilsur Metshin has commented on the media frenzy caused by Kazan having registered its brand of Russia’s third capital with the Rospatent intellectual property service.

Russian Deputy Minister of Industry and Trade Yury Borisov and Tatarstan Prime Minister Rustam Minnikahnov discussed issues of jointly working on creating the digital television network in the Republic of Tatarstan and the telecommunication infrastructure for the Universiade 2013 in Kazan at the Tatarstan Cabinet of Ministers on April 6.

The Bank of Russia has made a decision to issue a sport series of coins ‘Distinguished sportsmen of Russia’ for the coming Universiade 2013 in Kazan and the Olympic Games 2014 in Sochi.

The Tatarstan Cabinet of Ministers has today discussed issues curbing the development of the local oil product market and ways to solve them. The meeting was chaired by the prime minister Roustam Minnikhanov.