From 13 to 14 April 2015, the delegation from Tatarstan headed by Acting Tatarstan President Rustam Minnikhanov visited Azerbaijan. Tatarstan Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Industry and Trade Ravil Zaripov attended the meeting between Azerbaijan Minister of Economy and Industry Niyazi Abdulla oglu Safarov, CEO of Tatarstan Investment Development Agency Taliya Minullina, and Permanent Representative of Tatarstan in Azerbaijan Alfred Zakirov.
Nine applicants from Tatarstan companies will participate in the First Russian Festival of Films and Internet Projects ‘Man of Labour’ that will be held from 16 to 18 April 2015 in Chelyabinsk.
From 9 to 10 April 2015, Kazan hosted the 8th Session of the Russian-Hungarian Intergovernmental Commission on Economic Cooperation. The Commission was headed by Minister of Agriculture Nikolay Fyodorov from the Russian part and Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó from the Hungarian part.
From 8 to 9 April 2015, Kazan hosted the 10th Session of the Intergovernmental Russian-Indonesian Joint Commission on Trade, Economic and Technical Cooperation. The meeting was attended by Tatarstan Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Industry and Trade Ravil Zaripov. The Commission was headed by Minister of Industry and Trade Denis Manturov from the Russian part and Minister on Economic Affairs Sofyan Djalil from the Indonesian part.
On 7 April 2015, the Tatarstan House of Government saw the meeting of the Supervisory Board of the Tatarstan Investment and Venture Fund dedicated to holding the annual republic’s contest ‘Fifty Best Innovative Ideas for the Republic of Tatarstan’. The meeting was chaired by Tatarstan Prime Minister Ildar Khalikov and was attended by Tatarstan Deputy Minister of Industry and Trade Rashat Fattakhov.
Tatarstan Deputy Minister of Industry and Trade Ruslan Kabirov takes courses on the professional development programme for Tatarstan civil servants ‘Efficient Management: From Strategy to Action’ held in Kazan from 6 April to 8 April 2015.
On 3 April 2015, Tatarstan Deputy Minister of Industry and Trade Almaz Khusainov attended the opening ceremony of the first new-format supermarket ‘Perekryostok’ at 79 Dekabristov St. in Kazan.
On 2 April 2015, Tatarstan Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Industry and Trade Ravil Zaripov chaired the meeting dedicated to the issues of implementing the Programme entitled ‘Increasing Labour Productivity at Enterprises of the Republic of Tatarstan in 2015-2020’.
The meeting was attended by Tatarstan Deputy Ministers of Industry and Trade, top executives and experts of 20 republic’s industrial enterprises, and top executives of the Centre for Energy Saving Technologies under the Tatarstan Cabinet of Ministers.
On 1 April 2015, the Kazan State Power Engineering University saw the opening of the Centre for Science and Technology of the Denmark-based Danfoss.
The official opening ceremony was attended by Tatarstan Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Industry and Trade Ravil Zaripov, Head of the Energy Efficiency Department and Energy Generation for the Russian Ministry of Energy Aleksandr Mitreikin, Director General of the Danfoss office in Russia Mikhail Shapiro, and Dean of the Kazan Power Engineering University Edward Abdullazyanov.