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A total of 156 teams and individual performers have applied for participation in the 8th Our Time - Beznen Zaman Republic’s Annual Open TV Festival of Working Youth Creativity in 2020.

In November, the zonal stages of the 8th Our Time - Beznen Zaman festival started, the first of which took place at the Neftche Culture Centre on November 13 and 14, 2020 in Almetyevsk, ended with a zonal stage award ceremony.

The ceremony was attended by representatives of the Ministry of Industry and Trade of Tatarstan and the Ministry of Youth Affairs of Tatarstan, as well as the head of the Department of Economics, Industry, and Trade of the Almetyevsk Municipal District Executive Committee Aleksey Lazarev.

During the qualifying days of the zonal stages and the super finals of the Festival, all sanitary and epidemiological requirements are observed, the days of the zonal stages pass without spectators.

The zonal stage in Kazan is scheduled for November 20 and 21 in the concert hall of the Volga Region Academy of Physical Culture, Sports, and Tourism. The super finals of the Our Time - Beznen Zaman festival will be held on November 27 and 28 at the Volga Academy of Physical Culture, Sports, and Tourism. The gala concert will take place on November 30 at the Pyramid Cultural and Entertainment Centre in Kazan.

Ryazan hosted the second Productivity Vector Interregional Forum, which was organised at the Technonicol Corporation production site. Representatives of industrial enterprises, executive authorities, federal and regional competence centres exchanged experiences of participation in the Labour Productivity and Employment Support national project. The main issues discussed were: increasing labour productivity, supporting employment, and introducing lean manufacturing.

During the forum, Russian regions presented their interim results and positive experience in the implementation of the national project. The Tatarstan’s Regional Competence Centre was presented at the Productivity Vector Forum in Ryazan by Marat Akhmerov, Director of the Centre for Energy-Saving Technologies of Tatarstan, Deputy Director and Head of the RCC Shamil Bayramov, and Head of the Production Process Optimisation Department Dmitry Radaikin.

The “Labour Productivity and Employment Support” national project is being actively implemented in Tatarstan. To date, 99 enterprises are its participants, the target by 2024 is the involvement of 351 enterprises.

Tatarstan’s RCC in the Field of Labour Productivity ranked among top ten in the country’s rating. Such results were achieved owing to the work of the Tatarstan’s Regional Competence Centre created on the basis of the Centre for Energy-Saving Technologies of Tatarstan under the Tatarstan Cabinet of Ministers. Also, the RCC opened and certified a Process Factory training production site in July this year.

For the first national contest of regional brands, “Tastes of Russia”, the Zelenodolsk Dairy presented a product that it is especially proud of, the Zelenodolsky Katyk produced under the “Vas’kino S’chastye” (Vaska’s Happiness) brand.

Katyk (or Qatiq): this traditional Turkic drink is considered a beverage of youth and health since ancient times. This is for a reason, since it has a large amount of vitamins and trace elements, is easily absorbed, and helps solve digestive problems.

The Zelenodolsky Katyk has already brought the plant a well-deserved award: a laureate diploma of the “100 Best Goods of Russia” contest in 2014, while the “Vas’kino S’chastye” brand became this year’s winner in the “100 Legendary Brands of Tatarstan” contest.

The Zelenodolsk Dairy Processing Plant (ZMK) is one of the leading enterprises in Tatarstan. Every day more than 630 tonnes of high quality milk is supplied to ZMK from all farms of the republic. The company’s products are also used for baby food.

On November 19, a popular vote will be announced on the Tastes of Russia website, within which everyone will be able to support their favourite regional brand.

All project participants will be included in the federal support and promotion programme to get a chance to improve the qualifications of its employees, while the winners will have an opportunity to receive support for growing demand and sales.

November 13, at 12:00, will see the second direct line for pharmacies and medical organisations entitled “Simplification of Drug Marking: New Rules. Resolution of the Russian Federation Government No. 1779”. Representatives of the Ministry of Industry and Trade of Russia, the Federal Service for Supervision in the Sphere of Health Care, and the Pharma Project will talk about the Rules of Operation at pharmacies and medical organisations by notification, the duration of the notification period, and the Rules for Use of old and new regulations for sending data to the MDLP system, and will also answer all questions of participants.

To ask your question, please register here (in Russian).

The broadcast is available for everyone here (in Russian).

Please note that on November 2, Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin signed a Resolution simplifying the operational procedures with the drug movement monitoring system. More information about the changes can be found on our website.

The POZIS company (part of the Tecmash Concern under the Rostec Corporation) has increased the production of disinfecting equipment by more than 7.5 times over 10 months of this year.

With the spread of coronavirus infection, the demand for bactericidal irradiators-recirculators has significantly increased; in particular, for ORB-2N and ORB-2P disinfection devices. Thanks to environmentally friendly UV bactericidal lamps, the devices are capable of 99.9% neutralisation of pathogenic bacteria and viruses in rooms up to 100 square metres. At the same time, the air disinfection technology is absolutely safe for humans and animals. The disinfector set includes 12 air filters that provide reliable protection against dust, mould, pollen, and other particles in air.

POZIS air disinfectants comply with high Russian and international standards, are in high demand in medical, preschool, and educational institutions, as well as in offices and industrial premises. To date, disinfecting equipment sales grew 7-fold compared to 2019.

“Since 2009, POZIS has been successfully producing bactericidal irradiators-recirculators. The today’s situation with the coronavirus has once again confirmed the correctness of our decision. The main advantages of POZIS recirculators are their design, quality, warranty and post-warranty services”, said Director General of POZIS Radik Khasanov.

Today, the Kazan Kremlin hosted a meeting between Tatarstan President Rustam Minnikhanov and Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Tunisian Republic to Russia Tarak Ben Salem. The meeting was also attended by Ambassador-at-Large at the Russian Foreign Ministry Oleg Ozerov, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Industry and Trade of Tatarstan Albert Karimov. The Tunisian delegation arrived in Kazan to participate in the Russia-Africa Partnership Forum taking place these days at the Kazan Federal University.

Tunisia is an important partner of the Russian Federation. President Minnikhanov highly assessed the prospects for the development of cooperation between Tatarstan and Tunisia. The republic is ready to expand export supplies of petrochemicals and engineering products, automotive tyres, compressors, pharmaceuticals, medical equipment, and agricultural products. In turn, Tatarstan is interested in counter deliveries from Tunisia of fruits, seafood, light industry goods, and other products.

Today, the level of trade between Tatarstan and Tunisia is still low, about US$ 5 million. “This figure clearly does not correspond to the available opportunities. Here we need to strengthen our joint work”, the Tatarstan President said.

In turn, Tarak Ben Salem thanked Tatarstan leaders for their attention to Tunisia and interest in cooperation. The Ambassador expressed his readiness to provide full assistance in the development of trade, economic, and humanitarian relations.

In 2019, the Alabuga Special Economic Zone once again confirmed its leading positions among domestic SEZs. This was announced today by Tatarstan President Rustam Minnikhanov during a regular meeting of the Alabuga SEZ Supervisory Board. The said meeting was also attended by Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Industry and Trade of Tatarstan Albert Karimov. The event was held in the Tatarstan Government House in the videoconference format.

To date, 33 operating production facilities are located in the special zone, more than 7,000 new jobs have been created. The total private investment is RUB 140 billion. During the meeting, the Supervisory Board approved two new investment projects with an aggregate private investment volume of over RUB 7.6 billion.

Within the framework of the meeting, a tripartite Memorandum of Cooperation was signed between Alabuga SEZ, Continent Production Decisions, and Midea Electric Trading Ltd., which involves building a component base and electronics production facility in the Alabuga SEZ for the production of household appliances.

In addition, the Supervisory Board approved the expansion of the current resident project, ST-Alabuga. The company is already successfully operating in the Alabuga SEZ, producing buses, special equipment, and freight vehicles.

Following the Supervisory Board meeting, the areas of the Synergy 2 Industrial Park (over 76,000 square metres) put into operation in June 2020, were fully leased.

The Krasnaya Zvezda Food Aid Foundation has announced a call for applications from low-income citizens for free food packages.

To receive food aid, low-income families or single pensioners should write an application in free format addressed to the head of the city or settlement at the place of registration, with a certificate of their status and a description of a difficult life situation. The application should be sent to the Foundation’s email: help@forbs.top. After confirming the application and concluding an agreement, the Krasnaya Zvezda Foundation will organise the delivery of food products to homes for citizens in need using SberMarket. Caring people of Tatarstan can help the Krasnaya Zvezda Foundation by transferring funds for the purchase of humanitarian packages. This can be done on their official website https://forbs.top.

The implementation of this project depends on the competence of public authorities and their desire to support non-profit food organisations in the implementation of assistance to the low-income population of Russia.

These results were achieved with the support of experts from the Federal Competence Centre (FCC) within the framework of the Labour Productivity and Employment Support national project.

Promvest from Tatarstan specialises in the processing and sales of scrap metals of various types, categories, and volumes. The enterprise processes 1200 tonnes of metal shavings annually. For six months of implementing lean technologies, one company’s employee began to produce 170% more finished products: almost 10.5 tonnes. In addition, the production time for 5 tonnes of such chips was reduced by 26%, from 43 to 30 minutes. The project also reduced the time that raw materials wait for their turn to be processed from 25 to 7 days, or by 72%. Optimisation of production processes will allow the enterprise to produce 40-50% more chips a year.

Production optimisation at the Promvest enterprise will continue. Their immediate plans are to introduce the lean production principles at the units of processing ferrous and non-ferrous scrap metals, as well as of that selling metal products. The company has already trained 21 employees in the lean production basics.

Today in Tatarstan, more than 90 companies take part in the Labour Productivity and Employment Support national project. By 2024, this list will be joined by another 260 regional enterprises of the basic non-resource sectors of the economy.

Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin signed a Resolution that simplifies the operational procedures for drug circulation monitoring system. Given the increased demand for drugs and the epidemiological situation, the simplified treatment will function until all industry participants are fully prepared. What’s changed now?

• Pharmacies and medical institutions can withdraw drugs from circulation through cash desks and disposal registrars immediately after notifying the system about the drugs received by them.

• Until July 1, 2021, additional simplified mechanisms for “reverse acceptance of drugs” are introduced for imports into Russia and circulation within the country.

• Until February 1, 2021, one more simplification is introduced: manufacturers are required to put codes on drugs, pharmacies should scan them at the cash desks, and all operations of goods circulation are facilitated both within the country and during imports.

In all cases, the system will complete the drug circulation chain and analyse the supplied data. This will ensure control over the safety and legality of drugs.

The Government decree applies to all actions with medicines starting from July 1, 2020. The changes apply to all drugs, with the exception of medicines from the 12 HCD categories.

This document amended Government Resolution No. 1556 of December 14, 2018.