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This year, from June 30 will be working summer urban and city planning school under the guidance of Miguel Robles-Duran and his colleagues as part of Kazan Urban Forum.

The school will be organized jointly with the Institute of Governance and Territorial Development of Kazan Federal University (KFU) and will last until July 11.

Last year, Miguel Robles-Duran has come to Kazan and performed a public lecture at the Kazan Federal University.

Business Breakfast «Portrait of Russian regions. Integration of the Russian regions’ economies into the global system» with the participation of the President of the Republic of Tatarstan opened in June 5 the VI International Economic Summit of Russia and OIC countries (KazanSummit2014).

Welcoming the participants, Mr. Minnikhanov emphasized that the value of the summit is increasing every year: the event, which began as a platform for discussing issues of Islamic banking, today turned into a broader format – KazanSummit in 2014 was attended by over 500 participants from 26 countries, as well as about 20 regions of the Russian Federation.

«Today it is important for us to establish a direct constructive dialogue, to hear from foreign representatives of foreign business opinion about the real situation in the economy», - said the head of the republic.

Executive Director of the World Association of Investment Promotion Agencies (WAIPA) Bronzatto Carlos became the guest of honor at the VI International Economic Summit of Russia and OIC countries (KazanSummit2014) and presented at a special session on best practices in attracting investment.

The session of institutions development with representatives of investment promotion agencies and Development Corporations of Tatarstan, the Republic of Mari El, Ulyanovsk, Kaliningrad, Altai discussed investment promotion and brand-building regions and the country as a whole, investment, advertising and information campaigns. Mr. Bronzatto, in particular, noted that the organization of a large PR-information campaign of a particular region is quite expensive.