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Kazan State Technology University has won a grant of the US Department of State for holding NSLI-Y summer programme. In this connection, Kazan State Technology University has announced a contest among the university faculty and staff willing to be the American students’ host families, the university press-service informs.

Tatarstan President Rustam Minnikhanov met with Gyorgy Gilyan, the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Hungary to the Russian Federation at the Kazan Kremlin on April 15.

Tatarstan President Rustam Minnikhanov highly assessed OAO Nizhnekamskneftekhim performance in 2009. The statement was made at the annual meeting of the company’s shareholders on April 15.

The exhibition of the French Art of the 17th-18th centuries from the collection of the State Hermitage opened at the Hermitage-Kazan Centre on April 14. The visitors will have a chance to see as many as 200 paintings, sculptures and works of applied arts telling about the artistic life in France of that period. The exhibition will be open throughout the year.

For the first time in its 60-year history, OAO Tatatneft started industrial oil production abroad. It also became Russia’s first company that won an open international tender in Syria in 2003 and concluded a contract for oil prospecting and oil and gas production on terms of the production-sharing agreement (PSA).

Gyorgy Gilyan, the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Hungary to the Russian Federation, is visiting Tatarstan on 15-16 April 2010. In Tatarstan, the Ambassador will meet with the leadership of the republic and visit the Ministry of Industry and Trade.

Tatarstan President Rustam Minnikhanov met with Aleksander Kostyuchenkov, the Chief of the Border Department of the Federal Security Service in Saratov and Samara regions, in the RT House of Government on April 15.

Three alumni of Kazan Circus School perform in the troupe of the world-wide known Cirque du Soleil. They will come to the Tatarstan capital with the circus tour in August-September of 2010, Kazan Circus Director Damir Sharifullin told Tatar-inform on April 15.

The 49th session of Kazan City Duma will be held on April 21. 9 issues will be considered on the agenda. The date and agenda of the session were approved yesterday by Kazan City Duma presidium.

Russian Centre for Islamic Economics and the Islamic Banking and Finances Institute of Malaysia (IBFIM) is organizing an educational course "Islamic non-bank financial mechanisms". The main purpose of the course is to present different non-bank forms of financial mechanisms. Deputy Director of Russian Centre for Islamic Economics and Finances Iskander Iskhakov informed Tatar-inform about it.