NEWS

The meeting of the management of the RT Ministry of Industry and Trade with the delegation of military attaches of Austria, Switzerland, Holland and Germany will take place at the RT Ministry of Industry and Trade on April 1. The aim of the visit is to get acquainted with the industrial potential of the Republic of Tatarstan.

The procedure of OAO KAPO named after Gorbunov, the State-run Kazan aircraft manufacturer, entering the United Aircraft Corporation (OUC) is to be finished this summer. OUC President Aleksei Fyodorov and Russian Minister of Industry and Trade Viktor Khristnko told journalists about it during the visit to the Kazan enterprise on March 31.

Canadian experts are ready to present their experience in state management effectiveness, development of federalism and anti-corruption work. Such an arrangement was reached during Tatarstan Economy Minister Marat Safiullin’s internship on the Russian-Canadian programme “Support to reforming state management in the Russian Federation”, the press-service of the Tatarstan Ministry of Economy reports.

RF Industry and Trade Minister Viktor Khristenko will have several working meetings on development of aircraft building in Kazan and Ulyanovsk-based enterprises on March 30-31. Victor Khristenko will also meet with RT Prime-minister Rustam Minnikhanov and heads of aircraft building enterprises of Russia.

RT Deputy Prime-minister - Minister of Culture Zilya Valeyeva told about plans of carrying out the Year of France in Russia. According to her, it is expected that the plan of carrying out the Days of Culture of France in Russia and the Days of Culture of Russia in France that are to be conducted in 2010 should be confirmed in April.

Films of the 'Hidden' program from the collection of the International Short Film Festival Future Shorts will be shown in the cinema Mir from 9 to 19 April. 1.5-hour programme consists of 11 films from one to twenty minutes long.

The program and time of carrying out the 22nd Rudolf Nuriev International Ballet Festival has been confirmed. The Festival will open on May 11 with Adam's Giselle and finish on May 22 with a Gala-concert.

Tatarstan will continue cooperation with the World Bank in the sphere of carrying out analytical research in the field of poverty and the standard of living in the republic. Special attention will be given to making state-run programs of social assistance to the most vulnerable groups of the population more target-oriented.

A contest among teams of KVN, which is an acronym for a Russian sketch comedy organization called the Club of the cheerful and sharp-witted people, was held in Istanbul on March 29. Initiated by Tatarstan students who study in Turkey, the event was supported by Tatarstan Trading house.

Chairman of Tatarstan State Council Farid Moukhametshin proposed holding the Day of Europe annually.
He made this proposal on March 28 meeting with the head of the European Commission Delegation to Russia Marc Franco.