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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.

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.