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On 23 March 2015, the Tatarstan Ministry of Industry and Trade hosted the meeting of the Commission for Countering Corruption and the Commission on Observance of Requirements to Professional Conduct of Public Civil Servants and Resolving of Conflicts of Interest in the Tatarstan Ministry of Industry and Trade. During the meeting, parties discussed issues of the Ministry’s activities in the field of implementing anti-corruption policies.

On 23 March 2015, Tatarstan Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Industry and Trade Ravil Zaripov delivered the Commemorative Medals and the Certificates of Honour to the officials and employees of the Tatarstan Ministry of Industry and Trade.

On 23 March 2015, the upgraded Ford Sollers Plant in Naberezhnye Chelny manufactured the 5-thousandth Ford EcoSport mini-SUV.
The jubilee front-wheel drive vehicle belongs to Titanium series. It is white and possesses 1.6 litre 122 HP engine, and PowerShift 6-speed automatic transmission. The vehicle is equipped with ESP, SYNC multimedia system with voice control in Russian language, and winter tires.

On 18 March 2015, the 27th Specialised Exhibition ‘Fashion and Style. Kazan-Spring’ was opened. The exhibition is one of the main events in textile and light industries of the Volga Region. It is partaken by 130 companies and entrepreneurs from Tatarstan, Russia’s regions, Moscow, Saint-Petersburg, and the Republic of Belarus. The participants represent a wide range of products, such as clothing for adults and children, headgear, fur and leather articles, home textile, textile and leather accessories, jewellery, cosmetics, perfumes, goods for health, and many others.
The exhibition is held from 18 to 22 March at the Kazanskaya Yarmarka Exhibition Centre.

On 17 March 2015, the Tatarstan Ministry of Industry and Trade hosted the briefing meeting on issues of providing details of incomes, expenses, properties and property obligations. The meeting was attended by civil servants holding public positions. Venera Khusnutdinova, the leading specialist of the Human Resources Department, who is in charge in the ministry for preventive measures against corruption and other offences, informed the participants of the meeting how to fill the updated notifications.

On 17 March 2015, Tatarstan Deputy Minister of Industry and Trade Rashat Fattakhov attended the regular meeting of the OAO Tatspirtprom Board of Directors. The meeting was chaired by Tatarstan Prime Minister Ildar Khalikov and was held in the Tatarstan House of Government.
Main issues of the agenda included preliminary results of the financial and economic activities of OAO Tatspirtprom in January 2015 and approval of the Action Plan of the Board of Directors for 2015-2016.

On 16 March 2015, Tatarstan Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Industry and Trade Ravil Zaripov awarded several employees of the ministry with commemorative medals ‘27th World Summer Universiade in Kazan’.
The official ceremony was held in the Tatarstan Ministry of Industry and Trade.

On 13 March 2015, Tatarstan Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Industry and Trade Ravil Zaripov attended the meeting of the Economic Council on Taxes and Fees under the Tatarstan Cabinet of Ministers. The meeting was chaired by Tatarstan President Rustam Minnikhanov. Top officials of all municipalities and urban districts of Tatarstan, top executives of enterprises and organisations took part in the Economic Council meeting in the videoconference format.

On 11 March 2015, the Tatarstan Ministry of Industry and Trade hosted the first meeting of the Interagency Working Group for Medium-Sized and Small-Tonnage Chemistry Development. The main task is to create import substituting production facilities for chemical products.
During the meeting, the participants discussed promising projects for developing small-tonnage chemistry technologies.