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Pupils of 71 Tatarstan schools will study robotics as a part of special training courses on programming, assembly and modelling. Such information was presented by Minister of Information and Communication Roman Shaikhutdinov. He noted that the project will be implemented from new academic year.

On July 2, Tatarstan President Rustam Minnikhanov, Chairman of State Council Farid Mukhametshin, State Counsellor Mintimer Shaimiev, Prime Minister Ildar Khalikov, Deputy Chairman of State Duma of the Federal Assembly, Head of “United Russia” faction in Russian State Duma Vladimir Vasiliev, and Minister of Information and Communications Roman Shaikhutdinov took part in the Forum of secretaries of primary branches of “United Russia” party.

For the first five months of 2014 the number of payments for housing and utility services made on the Portal of state services increased by 70 per cent in comparison with the same period last year.

Professor Michele Mazzucco will deliver a lecture "Introduction to performance engineering and Quality of Service provisioning" on July 9 at 14.00. The Italian specialist in the sphere of computer science will visit Kazan by the invitation of Innopolis University, and tell about his scientific and business interests.

Citizens can now check the status of application submitted at multi-purpose centres on the Portal of state services uslugi.tatarstan.ru using the application number.

Tatarstan pupils can take part in the 3d All-Russia championship “Study Internet – manage it!” that will be held on October 1-31, 2014, and compete for valuable prizes. It is a unique social and educational project, where children can study principles of Internet in the form of an entertaining game.

Three Tatarstan projects, - state information system “Public control”, mobile diagnostic complex “Accessible medicine”, and “Electronic kindergarten” were announced best regional and municipal information projects.

On July 1, at a conference held at Regional press and mass media communications, Minister of Information and Communication Roman Shaikhutdinov told that making appointment with specialists of different government agencies will soon be available on the portal of state services.

Representatives of Tatarstan Ministry of Information and Communication took part in the first All-Russia conference on new public and municipal administration SEVCONF 2014 “Electronic region and municipality. New quality of public and municipal administration in Crimean federal district” (June 26-27, Sevastopol).

On June 27, Russian Minister of Communication and Mass Media Nikolai Nikiforov, Prime Minister Ildar Khalikov, Tatarstan Minister of Information and Communication Roman Shaikhutdinov, and Director General of Federal State Unitary Enterprise “Russian post” Dmitry Strashnov took part in solemn foundation stone laying ceremony of Kazan logistics post centre at Kazan international airport.