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On April 26 Tatarstan Prime Minister Ildar Khalikov, Tatarstan Minister of Education and Science Engel Fattakhov, rector of Kazan University Ilshat Gafurov, Director of High Technology Park “IT park” Anton Grachev, professor, ex-president of UNESCO international council for natural-scientific education (Thailand) Janchai Yingprayoon, and Director for professional education of Educare Cooperative Limited (Singapore) Ms Jaya Das visited IT lyceum.

Tatarstan Minister of information and communication Roman Shaikhutdinov took part in annual shareholders’ meeting of OAO “Tattelecom”. The Minister noted large amount of work carried out by the company last year and set several tasks.

A traditional Saturday clean-up campaign was held at many Kazan companies and enterprises. IT park employees decided to combine work with pleasure. After cleaning work places everyone enjoyed IT entertainment, - Segway driving, plush Angry Birds playing, taking pictures with Wall-E. Moreover, the weekend picnic was organised for everyone.

The state information system “Public control” started functioning in Kazan in April 2012. The system enables citizens to interact with republican and municipal authorities in new format. 7,6 thousand requests have been received from Tatarstan citizens for this period of time.

10th selection of startups for Business incubator finished on April 14 at Kazan IT park. The selection procedure was divided in several parts. On the first day experts saw 34 presentations that had been selected before. Businessmen from Kazan, Moscow, Ufa, Almetievsk, Nizhny Novgorod, Birsk and Naberezhnye Chelny presented their projects.

One more 4G mobile operator OAO “Osnova telecom” will start working in Tataarstan. The Agreement on strategic partnership was signed between Tatarstan Government and management of OAO “Osnova telecom” on April 12.