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MTS Travel and Bronevik.com services have analyzed the demand for hotels in Russia for the summer months. The list of popular holiday destinations for recreation, in addition to traditional Moscow, Petersburg and sea resorts, included the cities of the Volga region, Siberia and the North Caucasus. The top five most popular summer vacation destinations in addition to Kazan, Anapa and Moscow (4 percent of bookings in Russia), traditionally include Saint Petersburg (10 percent) and Sochi (8 percent).

On May 24-25, in the Skolkovo Central Park, the 11th technology conference Startup Village "Innovation Time 2023" to take place. For two days, participants from 32 countries - scientists, experts, entrepreneurs and government officials will have more than 200 events at 10 business platforms, more than 100 startups will present projects at the Startup Bazaar exhibition.

The webinar, where Kazan Digital Week experts will discuss state support for digital initiatives to be held on May 25 at 2:00 p.m. and will be moderated by Deputy Minister of Industry and Trade of Tatarstan Rodion Karpov.

The Internet Initiatives Development Fund and Russian Ministry of Digital Development, Communications and Mass Media invite Russian IT companies to take part in the competitive selection for participation in the Sprint accelerator. This is a free program of acceleration of projects on development of Russian IT solutions.

On June 3, under the action plan of the International Competence Centre – Kazan Technical College of Information Technologies and Communications", a championship in intelligent robotic systems will take place.

The programme of elimination of the digital divide is being implemented under the federal project "Information Infrastructure" of the national programme "Digital Economy". Operators implementing the programme have prepared the first statistics on the use of the network by subscribers. Tatarstan is working on elimination of the digital divide. Under the programme, base stations are installed in small settlements where from 100 to 500 people live and where there was no voice communication and mobile Internet before.

Mobile Telesystems Company, a digital ecosystem, has carried out work to strengthen the network on the territory of the Kazan Expo International Exhibition Centre and other large venues where large-scale business, sports and mass entertainment events take place. The operator installed new equipment and optimized the existing network, which helped to increase the speed of mobile Internet for participants in forums and competitions by 30 percent. MTS provided reinforced coverage and upgraded LTE networks at a number of facilities in Kazan, where the capital of Tatarstan regularly hosts business and sports events.

On May 25 at the Red Banner Hall of the Moscow House of War Veterans and the Armed Forces, the Seventh International Festival of Patriotic Songs and Musical Works of Children and Youth Creativity "Young Talents of the Fatherland" will open, which will be dedicated to the 80th anniversary of the Victory in the Battle of Stalingrad and 1035th anniversary of the Christianization of Rus' by Prince Vladimir.

Technopark in the sphere of high technologies "IT Park" invites younger students to celebrate the end of the school year.

On May 25 in honor of the start of holidays in the courtyard, the Bashir Rameev IT Park will host the holiday "Hurrah, holidays!" in partnership with the Kazan Circus and "Directorate "Cinema Time" non-commercial organization.

The programme was launched in 2022 under the Information Security federal project of the Digital Economy national programme with the participation of RTK-Solar and St. Petersburg State University of Telecommunications after professor M.A. Bonch-Bruevich. During the first year of the program's existence, as many as 7.7 million Russians decided to participate in 6 large-scale special projects dedicated to cybersecurity.