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Today, the Kazan City Hall saw the official award ceremony for the winners of the 100 Best Goods of Russia 2017 federal programme and The Best Goods and Services of the Republic of Tatarstan 2017 regional contest.

This year, a total of 449 goods and services from 207 enterprises took part in the regional stage of the competition; 110 of them won the prizes of The Best Goods and Services of Tatarstan Contest, 159 were awarded the 1st class diplomas, and 149 were awarded the 2nd class diplomas. Some 176 goods and services were presented to the federal stage of the 100 Best Goods of Russia, and 59 of them won the prizes.

Last November saw the launching of the website titled “The Best Goods and Services of the Republic of Tatarstan”, which contains information on high-quality goods of republic’s manufacturers. One can visit the www.bestoftatarstan.ru site to have more detailed information about the winners of the contest and goods they manufacture, about the experts and ambassadors of the contest, and to apply for participation.

It should be noted that one of the objectives of the federal programme is to support the import substitution development. New forms for industrial support should be introduced – this was stated last August by Russian President Vladimir Putin at a core meeting.

On January 19, the Tatarstan Ministry of Industry and Trade, jointly with the Tatarstan Centre for Standardisation, Metrology, and Certification and the Republic’s Agency for Press and Mass Communications Tatmedia will hold the official award ceremony at the Kazan City Hall for the winners of the 100 Best Goods of Russia federal programme and The Best Goods and Services of Tatarstan regional contest.

The event will be attended by Prime Minister of Tatarstan Aleksey Pesoshin, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Industry and Trade of Tatarstan Albert Karimov, as well as top officials of ministries and agencies, enterprises of various sectors, medical and cultural institutions, and masters of folk and art crafts of Tatarstan.

The award ceremony will be held for the winners of the Quality Leader of Tatarstan Award 2017 and the winners of the 100 Best Goods of Russia 2017 federal programme and The Best Goods and Services of Tatarstan 2017 regional contest in such categories as Capital Goods, Foodstuffs, Industrial Consumer Goods, Services, and Products of Folk and Art Crafts.

The Government of Russia has nominated the city of Yekaterinburg as a candidate for the World Expo 2025. If Russia win the bid, the exhibition will be held from May 2 to November 2, 2025. Osaka, Paris, and Baku will also fight for the right to host this major international event.

The theme of the Russian’s bid is “Changing the World: Innovations and Better Life for Future Generations”.

The decision on what country will host the World Expo 2025 will be taken by secret ballot at the 164th General Assembly of the Bureau International des Expositions (BIE) in November 2018.

Under the order of the Russian Government, the Organising Committee for Support of the Yekaterinburg Bid was established and headed by Deputy Chairman of the Russian Government Arkady Dvorkovich, as well as the Expo 2025 Bid Committee chaired by Svetlana Sagaidak.

The Russian Federation is a regular participant and prizewinner of world exhibitions; however, World Expos has never been held in our country. Russia has been participating in Expos since 1851 (when the very first exhibition was held), but never hosted this event, unlike competitor countries: France (6 times) and Japan (4 times).

The Engineering Cluster of Tatarstan, with the assistance from the Kama Innovative Production Cluster and the Kama Centre for Cluster Development of Tatarstan, is forming a delegation of industrial enterprises for participation in the business mission to Moscow on January 30 to 31, 2018.

The business mission programme will comprise visits to large industrial enterprises in Moscow such as Transneft, Inter RAO, Rosenergoatom Concern, SIBUR Holding, MOEK, and TVEL.

Applications are accepted until January 19, 2018 at tregubova.e@innokam.pro.

Contact person: Evgenia Tregubova

Tel.: +7 (8552) 53-07-07 (ext. 208)

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According to the Association of European Businesses (AEB), the Ford Transit commercial vehicle manufactured at the automotive plant in the SEZ Alabuga was the 2017 best-selling LCV of a foreign brand. The sales of the Ford commercial vehicles totalled 9600, which is some 31.6% of foreign-brand LCV sales in Russia and an increase of 9.2 percentage points compared to the previous year.

Ford Transit, whose production was localised at the Ford Sollers plant in the Alabuga SEZ, is the main contributor to the success of Ford's commercial vehicles on the Russian market. In 2017, a total of 9031 Ford Transit vehicles were sold, which is an increase by 62.4% y-o-y. Ford Transit buyers include large Russian and foreign companies, as well as federal and regional government structures, which are interested in the renewal of their transport infrastructures.

Based on Ford Sollers press service information

On January 15 at 16:34, due to a damage to the 110-kV Centre-East high-voltage cable line, there was a de-energization of the 110-kV Sovetskaya and 110-kV Gorki substations, which resulted in disconnecting consumers in the Privolzhsky, Vakhitovsky and Sovetsky districts of the city of Kazan.

On the Grid Company premises, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Industry and Trade of Tatarstan Albert Karimov held an emergency meeting of the Headquarters for Ensuring Power Supply Reliability in Tatarstan.

Owing to well-concerted efforts of the personnel at the Kazan Electricity Grids, the electricity supply to Kazan consumers was completely restored at 19:27. The power outage lasted 2 hours 53 minutes.

The final cause of damage to the cable lines will be determined after investigating the accident.

Today, the seventh expanded meeting of the Entrepreneurship Council under the Tatarstan President was held at the Pyramid Cultural and Entertainment Complex in Kazan. The event was attended by about 280 invited entrepreneurs, as well as deputies of the Tatarstan State Council, heads of ministries and agencies, and journalists – all in all over 400 people.

During the meeting, presentations were made by the Council project groups, including such topics as the minimisation of risks in preparing a declaration of conformity for products, the procedures for paying pollution fees, elaboration of the procedures for handling complaints by housing supervision authorities, arrangement of the safe transportation of children, specification of requirements for re-registration of waste management licenses, optimisation of requirements for business environmental reporting, etc.

Using project approach in tackling systemic entrepreneurial problems, lowering administrative barriers for businesses, and creating optimal conditions – these are the priority tasks identified by the Russian President. Vladimir Putin has repeatedly stressed that the regions should create a comfortable environment for entrepreneurship development, improve the business climate by applying a systemic approach.

On January 13, the Zelenodolsk Shipyard hosted an official keel-laying ceremony of the sixth Project 22160 patrol boat. The vessel was named in honour of the Soviet naval officer, Captain III Rank, Commander of the 4th Division of the Harbour Defence Patrol Crafts at the Novorossiysk Naval Base of the Black Sea Fleet, Hero of the Soviet Union Nikolai Sipyagin.

The event was attended by Deputy Prime Minister of Russia Dmitry Rogozin, Tatarstan President Rustam Minnikhanov, Russia’s Deputy Minister of Defence Yury Borisov, and other officials.

The ceremony ended with the installation of a builder's plate to the hull of the ship being built.

The Project 22160 vessels can reach up to 30 knots; they have a displacement of over 1,700 tons. Their indoor premises are designed for a crew of up to 80 people. The range of the vessel is 6,000 nautical miles; endurance is 60 days.

A business mission from the Tomsk Oblast, headed by its Deputy Governor for Industrial Policies Igor Shaturny, will visit Tatarstan in the period from January 15 to January 18, 2018.

The delegation consists of top executives of industrial enterprises in the Tomsk Oblast.

The purpose of the mission is to expand cooperation ties between the enterprises of the Republic of Tatarstan and those of the Tomsk Oblast.

The mission’s programme comprises meetings with top officials from the Tatarstan Ministry of Industry and Trade, the Tatarstan Government Contracts Agency, visits to Technopolis Himgrad, as well as meetings with representatives of several republic’s companies, such as Kazanorgsintez, Tatneft, Gazprom Transgaz Kazan, Tatenergo, Kazan Aviation Plant (branch of PAO Tupolev), Engineering Cluster of Tatarstan, Nizhnekamskneftekhim, Tatarstan Branch of Rostelecom, Kazankompressormash, and Gazprom Mezhregiongaz Kazan.

Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Industry and Trade of Tatarstan Albert Karimov congratulated the employees of the republic’s industrial and trade enterprises on the coming New Year:

“Dear retired and current managers and employees of industrial and trade enterprises of the Republic of Tatarstan!

On behalf of the Ministry of Industry and Trade of the Republic and on my personal behalf, please accept my cordial congratulations on the New Year and Christmas!

May the coming year bring many pleasant events and happy moments, new prospects emerge, and planned objectives be achieved!

I wish you and your families sound health, good luck, and love!

Great mood and fulfilment of your most cherished desires to all of you in the New Year 2018!”