A briefing timed to the holding of a sanitary-ecological bimonthly period in the republic was held today in the Government House of the Republic of Tatarstan. Aleksandr Shadrikov, Minister of Ecology and Natural Resources of the Republic of Tatarstan, answered the questions of journalists. As the Minister noted, prior to the start of the bimonthly period, all municipalities, nature protection departments and supervisory authorities of the republic conducted organizational training and inspected the readiness of communal equipment and landfills.