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On April 26, the Ministry of Industry and Trade of Tatarstan, with the support from the Tatarstan Chamber of Commerce and Industry, will hold a training seminar for producers entitled “E-Commerce Opportunities for Business Expansion”. Seminar’s speakers will include representatives of Alibaba international platform, Amazon Internet store, and VTB 24.
The event will be held on the premises of the Tatarstan Chamber of Commerce and Industry at 10 Pushkin St., Kazan.
To participate, please register at online.sovettorg.ru.
On April 16th and 17th, the delegation from Tatarstan headed by Tatarstan President Rustam Minnikhanov is making a working visit to the Republic of India (cities of Vishakhapatnam and Hyderabad).
During the trip, the head of the Republic is accompanied by representatives of various ministries and agencies of Tatarstan, including Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Industry and Trade of Tatarstan Albert Karimov, as well as heads of a number of republic’s large industrial enterprises and research institutions.
The visit programme comprises a meeting with top executives of Pharma City cluster, visits to a research centre, the Aurobindo pharmaceutical company, the T-Hub business incubator, the Microsoft campus, and the Indian School of Business (ISB).
Other events scheduled within the programme are meetings with top executives of Mahindra and Chief Minister of Telangana Kalvakuntla Chandrashekar Rao, and participation in the Indian-Tatarstan Business Forum.
The objective of the working visit is both to explore the opportunities in the Indian pharmaceutical industry and to discuss issues of further cooperation.
Today, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Industry and Trade of Tatarstan Albert Karimov held a meeting with enterprises of the republic's defence industry sector on the issue of working under the conditions of the amendments introduced to Federal Law No. 275-FZ of December 29, 2012 “On State Defence Order”.
The meeting was attended by Director of the State Defence Order Financial Monitoring Department under the Russian Ministry of Defence Olga Osaulenko, State Duma Deputy Rinat Khayrov, Procurator for Supervision over the Execution of Laws at Highly Restricted Facilities of Tatarstan Dmitry Yerpelev, Head of the Federal Treasury Department in Tatarstan Rustam Nuriakhmetov, Head of the Rostec Representative Office in Tatarstan Sergey Zagainov, President of the Tatarstan Association of Enterprises and Industrialists Aleksandr Lavrentiev, representatives of Gazprombank, Sberbank, VTB Bank, and all republic’s enterprises implementing State defence orders.
During the meeting, the participants discussed issues related to the work under the conditions of the Federal Law No. 275-FZ of December 29, 2012, bank support of the State defence orders, as well as the amendments entered into force in 2017-2018.
On April 14th and 15th, the indoor football and track facility of the Central Stadium and the Solnechny Camp will host the Sports Festival of Tatarstan’s Working Youth titled I Opt for GTO.
The Sports Festival of Tatarstan’s Working Youth is one of the most large-scale sporting events, intended to popularise the All-Russian GTO Physical Culture and Sports Training Programme, as well as to increase the prestige and significance of mass sports and healthy lifestyle among working youth. The Festival organisers are the Tatarstan Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports, the Tatarstan Ministry of Industry and Trade, the Kazan City Hall, the Ready for Labour and Defence Regional Public Organisation of Tatarstan and the Youth Union of Tatarstan Enterprises and Organisations.
The Festival will comprise master classes from athletes in various sports, in workouts, welcoming speeches will be delivered by representatives of executive authorities of Tatarstan and Kazan.
The All-Russia Physical Culture and Sports Training Programme Ready for Labour and Defence (GTO) is a full-fledged methodological and regulatory framework for the physical education of the country’s population aimed at developing mass sports and improving national health.
Phase 3 of the GTO programme for all population categories of Russia was launched in January 2017; updated GTO standards are in effect since January 1, 2018.
Routines for granting subsidies from the Russian Ministry of Industry and Trade are also being digitised. Corresponding amendments are introduced to the Resolution of the Russian Federation Government No. 3 regulating the procedures for subsidising interest rates for the implementation of new investment projects.
Loan proceeds should be used to implement integrated investment projects in priority areas of civil industries. According to the amendments, the total cost of an investment project has been raised from RUB 5 billion to 7.5 billion; for projects covered by a special investment contract, up to RUB 10 billion.
All procedures related to filing of applications, exchange of documents, monitoring and supervision of compliance with the terms of granting subsidies, have now been digitised. Electronic interaction will be implemented through the State Information System of Manufacturing Industry, which is intended to accelerate bureaucratic processes and enhance transparency and effectiveness of this support mechanism.
Subsidies are granted on the condition that the project is included in the list of integrated investment projects in priority areas of civil industries. Appropriate selection is carried out by the Russian Ministry of Industry and Trade at least once during a calendar year.
The Industrial Development Fund launched a new Labelling of Medicines programme. Loans for the targeted purchase of drug labelling equipment are provided in the amount of RUB 5 million to 50 million at 1% per annum for a period of 2 years.
Detailed information about the programme is available on the IDF’s official website at http://frprf.ru/zaymy/markirovka-lekarstv.
On April 10-11, the city of Sochi will see the Alternative Resources of World Energy (ARWE 2018) exhibition and conference, which is attended by Tatarstan Deputy Minister of Industry and Trade Ildar Mingaleyev and Head of Engineering Sector Dept. Ivan Kolchin.
The mission of the forum is to discuss the developments in the Russian renewable energy market, as well as to work out solutions for optimal interaction within the framework of localisation programmes between suppliers and key customers in the industry. The event was organised on the initiative of the Russian Ministry of Industry and Trade with the active support from the Russian Ministry of Energy.
The forum’s business programme comprises a panel discussion titled Industrial Policies of Russia’s Constituent Entities with Regard to Localisation Programs as a Basis for Optimal Interaction between Suppliers and Key Customers in the RES Industry.
In addition to the main events of the forum’s business programme, B2B meetings will be held between customer companies and vendor companies, while the exhibition area will present the display of renewable energy equipment and technology.
The Ministry of Industry and Trade of Tatarstan announces the opening of applications for participation in the annual Best Goods and Services of Tatarstan 2018 contest, in accordance with the Resolution by the Tatarstan Cabinet of Ministers No. 1969-r dated 26.12.2003, as part of the 100 Best Goods of Russia programme.
Enterprises of industry, trade, and services, as well as artisans of folk arts and crafts are invited to participate in the contest.
Applications for participation are accepted in the Tatarstan Centre for Standardisation and Metrology until April 20, 2018 via email: smi@tatcsm.ru, fax: +7 (843) 279-56-35, or post: 24 Zhurnalistov St., Kazan 420029.
Contest information and a list of necessary documents can be found at the websites of the regional stage http://test.tatarstan.ru and the federal stage www.100best.ru.
In accordance with the Resolution of the Russian Government No. 518 of May 3, 2017, support is provided to Russian companies that grant a one-time discount to lessees for the advance payment.
The maximum amount of the discount (subsidy) is:
- Up to 15 percent of the equipment price in case the equipment transfer is carried out in the Far Eastern Federal District, the Siberian Federal District, the Kaliningrad Region, the Republic of Crimea, or Sevastopol;
- Up to 10 percent of the equipment price of in case the equipment transfer is carried out in other regions of the Russian Federation.
The programme covers new earthmoving, road construction, municipal, logging, towed machinery, snow and swamp-going vehicles produced no earlier than 2016.
Leasing agreements under the programme should be signed until December 1, 2018 inclusive. Applications for subsidies are accepted from leasing companies until December 10, 2018 inclusive.
Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Industry and Trade of Tatarstan Albert Karimov congratulated citizens on the occasion of the Day of Unity of the Peoples of Russia and Belarus.
“Dear colleagues and residents of Tatarstan!
The Day of Unity of the Peoples of Russia and Belarus is a State holiday that reflects the main moral values of our peoples, such as patriotism, solidarity, respect for our history, and striving for good and justice.
It was on this day in 1997 that the Presidents of the two states signed the “Treaty on the Union between Belarus and Russia”, which initiated the process of mutual integration of the countries.
Noteworthy is that Russia remains the largest trading partner of Belarus, accounting for more than half of the Belarusian foreign trade turnover. In 2017, the foreign trade turnover between Tatarstan and Belarus was US$ 1,050,811,000.
On behalf of the Government of Tatarstan and on my personal behalf, please accept our most sincere and warmest congratulations.
On this festive day, I wish everyone good health, happiness, optimism, new successes for the sake of prosperity of our fraternal peoples, strengthening of existing relations and further beneficial cooperation in all spheres of our activities!”