Rustam Minnikhanov met with Vladimir Kirillov, Head of the Federal Service for Supervision of Nature Resources
29 April 2013, Monday
President of the Republic of Tatarstan Rustam Minnikanov met today with the Head of the Federal Service for Supervision of Nature Resources Vladimir Kirillov.
The meeting was held at the Government House of the Republic of Tatarstan. As a reminder, Vladimir Kirillov arrived in Kazan to hold an extended meeting devoted to the matters of arrangement of a single complex waste management system in the Republic of Tatarstan.
In the course of today’s meeting, Vladimir Kirillov and Rustam Minnikhanov discussed the situation in the field of production and consumption waste management, as well as a series of ecological aspects in the sphere of waste management and recycling.
In particular, Rustam Minnikanov thanked for the attention on the part of the Federal Service for Supervision of Nature Resources to the problems of regions. He also noted that today, as we approach Summer Universiade in Kazan, the government of the Republic of Tatarstan places serious emphasis on the issues of collection, elimination of waste by using modern ways of waste management.
Moreover, First Deputy Prime Minister of the Republic of Tatarstan Ravil Muratov, Deputy of the State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation, member of the Committee of the State Duma for Natural Resources, Nature Management and Ecology Fatikh Sibagatullin, Deputy of the State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation, and member of the Committee of the State Duma on Defence Rinat Khayrov also took part in the meeting; Head of the Administration of the Federal Service for Supervision of Natural Resource Usage of the Republic of Tatarstan Farit Khayrutdinov made a report on “The situation in the field of production and consumption waste management”. The Minister for Ecology and Natural Resources of the Republic of Tatarstan Artem Sidorov and the Minister for Construction, Architecture and Housing and Utilities Irek Fayzullin also made reports on various environment-oriented aspects.
As part of the new national project "Environmental well-being" Tatarstan has planned the implementation of 8 environmental initiatives with total funding of 3 billion rubles. The main part of the funds will be used for work on the federal project "Water of Russia", Minister of Ecology Azat Ziganshin said at a briefing in the Cabinet of Ministers of the Republic of Tatarstan.
Today, Minister of Ecology and Natural Resources of the Republic of Tatarstan Azat Ziganshin spoke at a briefing in the Cabinet of Ministers of the Republic of Tatarstan. The event was dedicated to the start of the sanitary and ecological two-month period and environmental work plans for 2026 within the framework of the national project "Environmental well-being".
Today, at the weekly staff meeting with the heads of structural and territorial divisions, the Minister of Ecology and Natural Resources of the Republic of Tatarstan, Azat Ziganshin, presented badges and official identification cards to the staff of the department.