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Today, the 4th National Championship of High-Tech Cross-Industry Skills “WorldSkills Hi-Tech 2017” will be opened on the IEC Yekaterinburg-Expo site.

More than 300 contestants will take part in the competitions. Young professionals will compete in 30 skills: electrical installation, electrical engineering, milling and turning work on CNC machines, mobile robotics, and others. In addition, an intense business agenda is expected within the 3 days of the event that is dedicated to improving the quality of present-day workforce education.

WorldSkills Hi-Tech is the most ambitious competition in Russia for professional skills among young professionals (aged from 18 to 28) at major domestic industrial enterprises, which has been held since 2014 in Yekaterinburg.

On November 4, the 3rd International Investment Forum “Invest Gagauzia-2017” will be opened. The event will be attended by a Tatarstan delegation comprising representatives of government agencies and business structures.

The moderators and speakers at the Forum will be the first persons of the Republic of Moldova, heads of central and regional authorities, representatives of business community, economic experts, and scholars.

The central topic of the 3rd International Investment Forum will be the presentation of two new investment sites in the municipalities of Comrat and Ceadâr-Lunga, which were granted the status of free economic zones.

During the business visit, the participants will make a tour of the industry-specific enterprises of Gagauzia and hold talks with foreign participants of the Forum.

In September 2015, Kazan hosted a meeting between Tatarstan President Rustam Minnikhanov and Governor of Autonomous Territorial Unit of Gagauzia Irina Vlah. During the meeting, an Action Plan for trade, economic, scientific, technology, and cultural cooperation in 2016-2018 was signed between the Tatarstan Cabinet of Ministers and the Executive Committee of Gagauzia.

Today, within the framework of the international conference “External Relations of the Russian Regions. Experience of the Republic of Tatarstan”, a round table discussion was held under the title “On Creation of an Export Ecosystem in the Constituent Entities of the Russian Federation and Software for the Infrastructure of the Regional Export Standard”.

Its moderator was Deputy Minister of Industry and Trade of Tatarstan Denis Valeyev. The meeting was also attended by Managing Director of Russian Export Centre for Coordination of Priority Projects Igor Shlonsky, Deputy Chairman of Penza Regional Government Andrey Luzgin, Deputy Chairman of Kirov Regional Government Ilya Shulgin, Director of External Relations Department at the Nizhny Novgorod Regional Government Olga Guseva, and representatives of Samara, Sverdlovsk regions, Mordovia, Bashkortostan, Chuvashia, and St. Petersburg.

Natalia Minaeva, head of the regional export support system development project at the Russian Export Centre, presented preliminary results of implementing the Regional Export Standard in the pilot mode.

Denis Valeyev briefed the audience on foreign economic activities of Tatarstan. In addition, he suggested creating an Exporters’ Club in the Volga Federal District to cooperate in promoting goods for exports.

Chairman of the Russian Government Dmitry Medvedev signed a decree on awarding the 2017 Government's prizes in the field of quality. Applicants for the award were selected by the Council for the Russian Government's Quality Awards.

The winners of the 2017 awards are TagraS-EnergoService (Tatarstan), Stavropol State Agrarian University (Stavropol Area), Vertex (St. Petersburg), Saratov Oil Refinery (Saratov Region), and INVITRO Independent Laboratory (Moscow). The government awards will also be granted to Efirnoye (Belgorod Region), Giprogazoochistka (Moscow), Vladimirsky Bakery Complex (Vladimir Region), Inforum-Prom (Ryazan Region), and Medovy Dom (Novgorod Region).

The Government Quality Award is the highest state award in this field; it has been awarded since 1996 by the Chairman of the Russian Government to enterprises and organisations for achieving significant results in the field of quality of products and services, as well as for implementing high-quality methods of quality management. The audit and subsequent recommendations of experts are effective tools for encouraging an enterprise to improve its organisational structure of management and production, enhance competitiveness, and introduce new technologies and innovations.

Tomorrow, on November 3, the Concert Hall of the Volga Regional Academy of Physical Culture, Sports, and Tourism (Universiade Village) will host the Kazan zonal stage of the 5th Annual Open Republic’s TV Festival of Working Youth Creativity “Our Time - Beznen Zaman”. The talents in the categories “Musical Area”, “Dance Area”, "Minute of Fame" will be demonstrated by representatives of working youth of Kazan, as well as 17 nearby municipal districts of Tatarstan.

The selection round in Kazan will last for 2 days (November 3-4) and will complete a series of the festival’s zonal stages. In October, similar selections were held in Naberezhnye Chelny, Nizhnekamsk, and Almetyevsk.

The winners will be invited to take part in the Super Finals of the Festival to be held on November 15-16 in the Academy’s Concert Hall. The winners’ gala concert will be held on November 18 in the Pyramid Cultural and Entertainment Complex and, like the gala concerts of the zonal rounds, will be broadcasted by the Tatarstan - New Age TV channel.

The Republic’s Festival of Working Youth Creativity “Our Time - Beznen Zaman” has been held in Tatarstan with support from the President of the Republic. It is attended by working young people aged 18 to 35, for whom the participation in the competition programme is not a professional activity.

Today in Kazan, on the premises of the Tatarstan Academy of Sciences, an International Applied Research Conference titled “External Relations of Russian Regions. Experience of the Republic of Tatarstan” was opened, timed to the 25th anniversary of the republic’s first official foreign contacts.

The event was attended by Chairman of the State Council of Tatarstan Farid Mukhametshin, Head of the Tatarstan Presidential Office Asgat Safarov, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Russia Mikhail Bogdanov, Deputy Minister of Industry and Trade of Tatarstan Denis Valeyev, President of the Tatarstan Academy of Sciences Myakzyum Salakhov, and others.

Greetings addressed to the conference’s participants from Tatarstan President Rustam Minnikhanov was conveyed by Tatarstan State Council Chairman Farid Mukhametshin. Also during the conference, greetings were read out from Russian Minister of Foreign Affairs Sergey Lavrov.

The International Applied Research Conference titled “External Relations of Russian Regions. Experience of the Republic of Tatarstan” is being held in Kazan from November 2 to November 3, 2017.

Based on the information from the Tatar-Inform Agency

On November 1 to 2, within the framework of the World Quality Day and the European Quality Week, the 5th International Conference “Quality as the Basis for Competitiveness of the Present-Day Automotive Industry” is being held in Naberezhnye Chelny on the premises of KAMAZ.

The conference is supported by the Ministry of Industry and Trade of Tatarstan, KAMAZ, the Technical Secretariat of the Council for the Tatarstan Government's Quality Awards, the Academy of Standardisation, Metrology, and Certification, the Russian Register Association, and the Volga Quality Centre Group of Independent Companies.

The event is attended by major vehicle assembly enterprises of Russia and the CIS countries, leading Russian and foreign quality management experts, manufacturers of automotive components, and experts of certification authorities.

Today, the 12th All-Russian Open Youth Applied Research Conference “Dispatching and Management in the Electric Power Industry” was held on the premises of the Kazan State Power Engineering University. The event is supported by the Ministry of Industry and Trade of Tatarstan, the Ministry of Education and Science of Tatarstan, the Tatarstan Regional Dispatching Office of the Unified Energy System, and the TGK-16.

The conference was attended by young employees of the Tatarstan Regional Dispatching Office, FSK-EES, Russia’s grid and generating companies, as well as students, undergraduates and graduates of Russian and foreign technology universities. At the event, the participants discussed the latest developments in the electric power industry, shared their practical achievements and plans for the future. The conference will last until November 3, 2017.

The objectives of the conference are to attract students, undergraduates, graduates, and young scientists to solving urgent problems of present-day power industry, facilitate the integration of higher education and industry, develop and support scientific and technology potential of talented young people, display and discuss the latest scientific results of their researches and applied achievements in the field of electric power industry, develop and strengthen scientific relations between young employees and scientists.

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On November 2-3, Kazan will saw the International Applied Research Conference titled “External Relations of the Russian Regions. Experience of the Republic of Tatarstan”, timed to the 25th anniversary of the republic’s first official foreign contacts.

The event is being held in preparation for the events to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the Tatar Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic with an aim of identifying good practices of cross-border cooperation and discussing its prospects under current conditions. Its attendees are representatives of government authorities, international organisations, domestic and foreign scientific and educational establishments, and expert community.

During the conference, a round table discussion titled “On Creation of an Export Ecosystem in the Constituent Entities of the Russian Federation and Software for the Infrastructure of the Regional Export Standard” will be held on November 3 with the participation of Managing Director of Russian Export Centre for Coordination of Priority Projects Igor Shlonsky and representatives of the regions within the Volga Federal District. The round table discussion will be moderated by Deputy Minister of Industry and Trade of Tatarstan Denis Valeyev.

Russian Helicopters Holding began testing the multi-purpose Ansat helicopter in Pakistan to confirm the possibility of operating the machine in high air temperatures.

At the moment, the helicopter has already started test flights. It is planned to expand the working temperature profile of Ansat up to + 50°C, so that the range will be from - 45°C to + 50°C.

The tests are scheduled for completion by mid-November. Following the tests, a conference for potential Pakistani helicopter buyers is expected in Islamabad to study its competitive advantages and operational features.

Ansat is a lightweight twin-engine multipurpose helicopter, the full-scale production of which is deployed at the Kazan Helicopters. In May 2015, the helicopter was certified with a medical module that meets all international standards of sanitary aviation and allows saving a person's life for the period of transportation. According to the helicopter’s certificate, its design allows to convert it into a cargo version or into a passenger rotorcraft that can lift up to seven people.