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On June 10, 5 new preschools opened in Naberezhnye Chelny with participation of Tatarstan President Rustam Minnikhanov. Parents can now submit applications and track application status on the portal of state and municipal services.

Kazan has again won the right to host a high-level event. Director of Innopolis University Dmitry Kondratiev told us how the university became the operator of Russian round of World Robot Olympiad.

Most emotional robot Tespian will open Russian round of World Robot Olympiad in Kazan (Tennis Academy, June 21). Tespian is the android robot, who came to Russia to open the Ball of robots in Moscow (May 15-June 15). The robot was especially made for intellectual and creative work. He has appeared on the stage several times, alone and with Angela Merkel and David Cameron, when they opened international exhibition in Hannover.

A pilot project on exchanging electronic documents between Tatarstan and federal authorities using federal interdepartmental electronic document management system will soon be launched in Tatarstan.

On June 10, Deputy Minister of Information and Communication Azat Mubarakshin took part in opening of XIII international research and practice conference “Technologies of innovative health care” held under the auspices of Tatarstan Ministry of Health and with participation of Director of the Department of information technologies and communication of Russian Ministry of Health Roman Ivakin.

A session of Anti-corruption Commission under Minister of Information and Communication will be held on June 11.

On June 6, Russian Minister of Communications and Mass Media Nikolay Nikiforov held a session of Subcommittee on using information technologies upon rendering state and municipal services. Deputy Minister of Information and Communication Timur Zaripov took part in the video conference meeting.

More than 90 participants, 20 experts, 21 ideas and a great number of cups of coffee, - this is Hackathon QIWI Universe that was held in Kazan IT park on June 9. Designers and programmers came to demonstrate their skills in creating software products.

All-Russia Robotics Olympiad, the preliminary round of World Robot Olympiad – WRO, will be held outside Moscow for the first time.

The Ministry of Information and Communication, Ministry of Education and Science, the Centre of Information Technologies of the Republic of Tatarstan, OAO AK BARS BANK, and MasterCard Worldwide launched an innovative project at Zelenodolsk schools – school cards, for making non-cash payments at schools and outside.