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Official opening ceremony of the 10th open republican television youth festival “Constellation” super-final takes place today at “UNICS” cultural centre. This year, the festival is dedicated to celebrating the 65th anniversary of Victory in the Great Patriotic War. According to the festival regulations, all the participants present creative performances on military thematic. 2900 young talents from 43 regions and cities of the Republic of Tatarstan, Moscow, Komsomolsk-on-Amur, Penza, Yoshkar-Ola, Volzhsk will take part in the super-final.

Solemn opening ceremony of the volleyball tournament among students of secondary colleges of Tatarstan “Toward the Universiade-2013” was held at Kazan sports complex “Batyr” on Tuesday.

The Republic of Tatarstan sees Sberbank Rossii as its strategic partner. This statement was made by Tatarstan President Rustam Minnikhanov at a meeting with German Gref, the Chairman of the Board of Sberbank Rossii, at the Kazan Kremlin on April 13.

The Kazan Engine Production Association, KMPO, will take part in the 11th international salon Engines 2010, to be held on April 14 to 17 at the Russian Exhibition Centre in Moscow. Exhibitors will traditionally be companies engaged in development, production, repair and operation of engines of various purposes, used in the aviation, energy and gas transportation branches.

Being a many-year participant of the largest trade show, KMPO will present a display of products it manufactures, including scale models of the GPA-16 Volga gas compressor unit, GTEU-18 gas turbine energy unit and the NK 16-18-STgas turbine engine. Participation in the 11th international salon offers a unique opportunity to see new achievements in the field of high technologies and establish business contacts with the leading domestic and foreign firms, the company’s press service reports.

Tatarstan President Rustam Minnikhanov met with Timothy Mai Shelpidi, the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Federal Republic of Nigeria to the Russian Federation, at the Kazan Kremlin on April 13.

April 13 saw Tatarstan President Rustam Minnikhanov meeting with a delegation of the International Student Sports Federation (FISU) at the Kazan Kremlin.

A meeting at the Tatarstan Economy Ministry has discussed possible areas of Tatarstan-Italy cooperation in applying new project financing technologies. Acting economy minister Marat Safiullin met with the Project Financing Consulting general director Lorenzo Kessler. The Tatarstan acting economy minster was presented the Italian’s firms practices of developing and implementing investment attraction projects in healthcare, ecology, tourism and other areas. The company has a vast experience in devising financing techniques for special investment projects with a complex structure and a potential for attracting financing from banking institutions.

Ravil Akhmetshin was appointed new Plenipotentiary Representative of the Republic of Tatarstan to the Russian Federation.

The Book of Condolences was opened yesterday in connection with the tragic death of Poland President Lech Kaczynski, his wife and a large group of top Polish officials and politicians in the plane crash near Smolensk on April 10.

Thousands of Muscovites came to the Polish Embassy on Sunday to lay flowers in memory of the dead and express condolences to the Polish nation in connection with the accident.

On behalf of the President of Tatarstan and the State Council, the people of the Republic of Tatarstan, flowers were laid at the Polish Embassy in Moscow and a note of condolences to fraternal people of Poland was added to the Mourning Book.

In January-March, companies and associations of all types of ownership in Tatarstan, as well as private individuals with own means, have put in operation a total of 501.9 thousand square metres of residential facilities, which 24 percent less than last year, reports Tatarstanstat.

By comparison, housing commissioning in Tatarstan in January-March 2009 totalled 129.6 percent versus 2008. Companies in Tatarstan in the first quarter of this year accepted 3,085 flats of a total space of 231.9 thousand square metres.