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The second contest selection of start-ups for location in Business incubator will be held on June 8 in technopark in the sphere of high technologies “IT-park”. Applications have been received since the beginning of May. Now 20 young IT companies that will present their projects to expert commission claim for location in IT-park.

Chairman of State Duma of Federal Assembly Boris Gryzlov visited Technopark in the sphere of high technologies “IT-park” in Kazan. He was accompanied by RT President Rustam Minnikhanov. Director of GAU “Technopark in the sphere of high technologies “IT-park” Dinar Nasyrov presented IT-park for guests. He told about the structure of IT-park, residents and projects being realized there.

Currently about 60 % of Tatarstan families have wideband access to Internet. More than 905 000 subscribers (63,5 % of which are physical parties) use technologies xDsl, Ethernet, Wi-Fi and WiMax. At the end of 2010 the number was 779 000.

First deputy chairman of RF government Igor Shuvalov saw business incubator located on the territory of technopark in the sphere of high technologies - IT-park in Kazan in the course of working trip to the capital of Tatarstan.

A three-day working session of IT-projects “Startup Weekend” starts today in Innovative technopark “Idea”. Startup Weekend is one of events dedicated to development of business projects by young entrepreneurs. It will last for three days and will be a preliminary stage of selecting projects for placement in recently opened Business incubator of technopark in the sphere of high technologies “IT-park”. The best projects will receive invitation for expert selection held in June 2011

The agreement on basics of interaction in preparation and holding of Universiade -2013 in Kazan between Republic of Tatarstan and Federal service on supervision in sphere of communication and info technologies has been fixed today in a capital of the republic. The signatures in a document were put by chief of Roskomnadzor Sergei Sitnikov and President of Tatarstan Rustam Minnikhanov. In a meeting held in RT House of Government took part RT Premier Ildar Khalikov, RT vice premier-minister of info and communication Nikolai Nikiforov, chief of republican agency on press and mass media Marat Muratov.

Planned repair works with disconnection of all technical facilities will be conducted at radio broadcasting centres in Kazan, Nab.Chelny, Nizhnekamsk, Leninogorsk, Shemordan and Bilyarsk. Repair works of antenna-feeder devices of branch of Russian TV and radio broadcasting network “Republican radio and television transmitting centre of the Republic of Tatarstan” are conducted in accordance with schedule approved by Russian TV and radio broadcasting network for 2011.

Dear colleagues!
Take my congratulations on our common professional holiday – Radio day! It is a holiday of all employees of ICT sector – those who help us communicate with relatives, notwithstanding distances, and get necessary information and new facilities.

May, 5. Veterans of communications sphere were honored at RT Ministry of info and communications. Traditionally meetings with veterans are held at the ministry yearly on the threshold of Radio day and Victory day.