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The first meeting of the Investment Council of the Republic of Tatarstan was held at the Tatarstan Government House under the guidance of the President of the Republic of Tatarstan Rustam Minnikhanov.

Investment Council of the Republic of Tatarstan was established by the Decree of the President of the Republic of Tatarstan on July 5, 2012  in order to implement such Laws as "About foreign investments in the Republic of Tatarstan", "About investment activity in the Republic of Tatarstan", as well as improving the investment climate in the Republic of Tatarstan. The Council is a collegial advisory body for attracting investments into the economy of the Republic of Tatarstan. Chairman of the Investment Council is the President of Tatarstan Rustam Minnikhanov.

TIDA met with representatives of SWARCO AG today. Among those present at the meeting were TIDA Chief Executive Linar Yakupov and Alexander Swarovski, vice president of the Austrian company.

SWARCO is a growing international group that supplies a complete range of products, services, and solutions for road marking, signaling, signage and traffic management. The company is currently helping implement an intelligent traffic control system that is to be launched in Kazan before the beginning of the 2013 Summer Universiade.

A press conference about the upcoming International Winter Forum will be held at 10 a.m., 7 December, at TatMedia (2 ulitsa Akademicheskaya) with the participation of  TIDA Chief Executive Linar Yakupov.

The International Winter Forum INVEST in TATARSTAN – an exclusive, invitation-only event organized by the Tatarstan Investment Development Agency (TIDA) under the patronage of the President of the Republic of Tatarstan – will be held at the Kazan Ski Resort on 14 and 15 December 2012.

Today TIDA met with representatives of the Russian Postal Service to discuss the possibility of opening an automated sorting center in Tatarstan.

Today TIDA Chief Executive Linar Yakupov met with a Vietnamese delegation headed by Pham Xuan Son, Vietnam Ambassador to the Russian Federation.  

The Vietnamese guests noted that Tatarstan and Vietnam have a long history of collaboration. “We must make good use of the potential of our respective republics to strengthen the yield of our collaborative efforts and future partnership.

Today, Tatarstan delegation headed by President of the republic Rustam Minikhanov participated in «Investment Opportunities in Tatarstan» investment forum, which was held in London, Great Britain. The President was accompanied by Chief Executive of  Tatarstan Investment Development Agency Linar Yakupov,  Board Chairman of JSC Ak bars Bank Robert Minnegaliev, Director General of Alabuga Special Economic Zone Timur Shagivaleev, Aide to the Tatarstan President Radik Gimatdinov, Aide to the Tatarstan President Airat Nurutdinov and others. The event was organized by Tatarstan Investment Development Agency in partnership with CNBC Creative Solutions. 

The forum was held within a large scale PR campaign, entitled INVEST in TATARSTAN, which is aimed to promote the Republic of Tatarstan as an attractive investment destination and a number-one gateway to Russia and the CIS countries. 

The event gathered together over 150 representatives of the world business community, heads of major international companies, banks and investment funds. 

Today, Chief Executive of Tatarstan Investment Development Agency  Linar Yakupov met with Nick Archer, UK Trade & Investments Strategic Trade Group director, within a large scale PR campaign, entitled INVEST in TATARSTAN, which is aimed to promote the Republic of Tatarstan as an attractive investment destination and a number-one gateway to Russia and the CIS countries.

The participants of the meeting, which was held in London, paid particular attention to the discussion of cooperation on trade and investment activities, and on infrastructure development of both countries.  

Today the improved concept of SMART City Kazan master plan was presented to the President of the Republic of Tatarstan Mr. Rustam Minnikhanov within the VII Russian-Singapore Business Forum.

The project was developed by Tatarstan Investment Development Agency and Malaysian Consortium comprised of AJM Planning and Urban Design Group, Straits Consulting Engineers and Amanah Capital Group Limited.

The SMART City Kazan is being implemented under the patronage of the President of the Republic of Tatarstan and supervising state authority - Tatarstan Investment Development Agency. JSC "Tatarstan Development Corporation”, a special executive company, was created to accomplish the project.

During the official opening ceremony of the five day workshop, on 15th September, Mr. Linar Yakupov, Chief Executive of Tatarstan Investment Development Agency noted that the project of SMART City Kazan is to transform Kazan into a new international business hub in order to competitively attract major multinational, Russian and Tatarstan companies.  SMART City Kazan is a project of a modern state-of-art satellite city of Kazan with latest ICT facilities and infrastructure, eco-friendly technologies all of which create high quality social, working and living standards. The project of SMART City Kazan has been presented for the first time this year during the international forum KAZANINVEST 2012. Chief Executive of Tatarstan Investment Development Agency also reinforced the idea that the project of SMART City Kazan is to become a new competency center for the urban design and planning in the republic. Furthermore, Mr. Linar Yakupov mentioned that the international exhibition and convention center will become a major catalyst of the project. 

On the second day of the workshop Siemens made a presentation about eco-friendly and energy efficient technologies they have been utilizing on other “smart” projects. Moreover, Siemens Enterprise Communications shared their global experience of creating harmonized user experience using the innovative software platforms and integrating them into the "smart" projects.

Mr. Linar Yakupov, Chief Executive of Tatarstan Investment Development Agency, has  given a  speech opening the workshop.  He noted that the project of SMART City Kazan is to transform Kazan into a new international business hub in order to competitively attract major multinational, Russian and Tatarstan companies.  SMART City Kazan is a project of a modern state-of-art satellite city of Kazan with latest ICT facilities and infrastructure, eco-friendly technologies all of which create high quality social, working and living standards. The project of SMART City Kazan has been presented for the first time this year during the international forum KAZANINVEST 2012. Chief Executive of Tatarstan Investment Development Agency also reinforced the idea that the project of SMART City Kazan is to become a new competency center for the urban design and planning in the republic. Furthermore, Mr. Linar Yakupov mentioned that the international exhibition and convention center will become a major catalyst of the project.