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Realization of the charity campaign “Held to get ready for school” aimed at helping children from low-income and large families, and disabled children started on July 7.

On July 4, Board Chairman of Renova group Viktor Vekselberg, Senior Vice-President of Skolkovo Fund Vasily Belov, Renova Deputy Board Chairman Rinat Khalikov and other representatives of Renova group visited Kazan IT park.

The renewed mobile application “Services of the Republic of Tatarstan” for IOS and map of infomats “Electronic Tatarstan" are now available. To the point, users of mobile application “Services of the Republic of Tatarstan” can use 15 popular and socially important electronic services. The mobile application can be downloaded in AppStore and PlayMarket.

Call centre of state and municipal services of the Republic of Tatarstan is doing major work on rendering quality information services to people. More than 225, 000 calls were received at Call centre for the first six months in 2014.

In his interview to RBK-Tatarstan, Minister of Information and Communications Roman Shaikhutdinov told that Tatarstan is willing to help Crimea making up “Open government”. New government portal rk.gov.ru is already working in Crimea.

Minister of Information and Communication Roman Shaikhutdinov told that about 5 thousand specialists of IT companies, students and teachers will become first residents of Innopolis.

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.