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On April 12, 1961, the USSR astronaut Yury Alekseevich Gagarin made the world’s first manned flight into outer space.

In honor of this event, on the Cosmonautics Day, the branch of the Russian Television and Radio Broadcasting Network of Russian Television and Radio Broadcasting Center of Tatarstan will turn on the thematic illumination of the Kazan TV tower - launch of the first manned spacecraft «Vostok» against the background of the starry sky.

From March 20 to April 7, 2023, the regional stages of the championship on professional skills «Professionals» of Tatarstan 2023 were held at the venues of International Competence Centre – the Kazan Technical College of Information Technologies and Communications. As many as 16 venues for participation of 152 contestants and 162 experts of Tatarstan on 25 IT-competences were organized at the College, including 15 competences in the age category «Students of secondary vocational education» and 10 competences in the category «Juniors».

The festival will take place from April 10 to April 15. The topics of the festival will be of interest to both teenagers who decide what to become, and adults who want to understand digital professions. Each day will be dedicated to a specific Yandex service: product teams will inform what professions create the magic of technology and why IT is not only development.

On April 28, Kazan will host the annual meeting of the heads of the leading companies of the Volga region to discuss topical issues in the information technology and cybersecurity - ICL OPEN DAY. During the meeting, ICL Group experts, representatives of business and government agencies will discuss jointly implemented IT projects.

Investment and Venture Fund of Tatarstan the non-profit organization informs that in accordance with the decision of the Supervisory Board of the Industrial Development Fund, the terms of joint financing programmes will be changed. From March 24, 2023, under the «Development projects», «Components» and «Labor Productivity» programmes the maximum loan amount increased from 100 million to 200 million roubles.

Tatarstan branch of the Russian Television and Radio Broadcasting Network informs about the scheduled service maintenance of radio and television equipment at a number of low-capacity TV and radio broadcasting facilities.

On April 9, the Bashir Rameev IT-park will host an open lecture of the author and host of the popular video blog "Just Like Other Animals", naturalist, biologist and writer Evgenia Timonova. The theme of her speech in the IT park is “Buy an elephant!”. We will learn about how advertising works from the point of view of biology, how it manipulates our opinion and makes us do strange things, how advertisers use our nature for their own purposes. We will also consider evolutionarily proven ways to efficiently advertise and learn how to resist them.

Regional enterprises and organizations operating in the scientific and innovation spheres should annually provide information in the form №2 "Science" from April 2 to April 11, in the form №4 "Innovation" from April 2 to April 15.

On March 31, at the branch of Russian Television and Radio Broadcasting Network "Moscow regional centre", at the foot of the Ostankino TV tower, a new Collective Agreement for 2023-2026 was signed. On behalf of the employer, Director General of the Russian Television and Radio Broadcasting Network Andrey Romanchenko and on behalf of employees, Chairman of Russian Communication Workers Union Anatoly Nazeikin signed the document. The new Collective Agreement provides for social benefits for employees in excess of those established by labor legislation.

On April 2, on the Day of Unity of the Peoples of Belarus and Russia, the branch of Russian television and radio network “Radio Television Broadcasting Centre of Tatarstan” will turn on the festive illumination.