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The meeting of the Interdepartmental workshop on cleaning of water areas of the Kuybyshev and Nizhnekamsk water reservoirs from sunken and abandoned floating crafts will be held on January23, 2015at 1 pm at the Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources of the Republic of Tatarstan.

The Center for information and educationalresources of Yaroslavl holds the All-Russian contest“Ecological education and enlightenment”. The projects presented by teachers, educators, and schoolmasters, as well asauthor's developments, programs of interest groups that promote ecological enlightenment of children and pupilsare accepted for the contest.
The contest implies the following topics:
1. Promotion of ecological intelligence;
2. A message to the future generation;
3. The world around us;
4. In harmony with nature;
5. Nature through the eyes of a child;
6. Nature of the motherland;
7. Nature heritage;

The International summit for global problems of water deficiency indrought-affected regions“International Water Summit” is held on January 19 – 22, 2015in Abu-Dhabi. The event is aimed at revelation of new solutions regarding management of water and energy resources, integration of water and energy resources, as well as preservation of nature water reserves for future generations. The exposition of achievements and innovations of the industry of water technologies including 150 exhibits from 15 countries will work in the framework of the summit.

The Interregional contest of ecological drawingsstarted in St. Petersburg for pupils of 5-11 forms of secondary schools, colleges, and vocational schools.
The contest is aimed at fostering of careful attitude to the environment and natural resources; enhancement of ecological culture and responsibility of the young generation with regard to the environment.
The contest is held in the following categories:
1. Ecological poster
2. Education and research work
3. Ecological reports
4. Hand-made(crafts made of waste)

The All-Russian online exposition of pupils’ achievements is held from January to May 2015. The exposition is aimed at arrangement of the unified open information spacefor publication of creative and scientific pieces of work of pupils studying at elementary, secondary, secondary special, higher professional and further educational establishments. The exposition includes the following projects:
- Nature protection initiatives;
- Ecological projects;
- Social projects;
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The Center for Intellectual Development“Zvezda.RU” (“Star.RU”) holds and international contest “Ecological boomerang”. The contest is held both for children and adults. Presentations, photos, video materials, stories, poems, and essays about ecological situation on the Planet, and ecological attitude to all spheres of life on the Planet in the following categories:
1.Taiga guard.
2.Live sea.
3.Russian forest watch.
4.School of ecological education.
5.Ecological monitoring.
6.The Planet is in danger.
7.This mysterious biofield.
8.Study of the “human – plant” relationship.
9.Bionics.
10.Give forest a chance.
11.Medicinal herbs.
12.Protection of animals.
13.Ecology of fungi.
14.Ecology of mold.
15.Ecology of birds.
16.Ecology of mammals.
17.Ecology: viruses and bacteria.
18.Our ecological center
19.I did it!
20.I participated in it!
21.Ecological project “Give forest a chance”.

The IV International Scientific Ecological Conference“Problems of reclamation ofconsumption waste, as well as industrial and agricultural waste” will be held in Krasnodar on May 24-25, 2015.
The conference is aimed at expansion of scientific and methodical contacts between research teams for discussion of practical tasks that regard use ofconsumption, industrial and agricultural waste, as well assolution of the most important matters regarding their reclamation and reduction of their negative impact on ecosystems.
The following sections will work:

Inspectors of the State Inspection for Ecological Surveillance under the Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources of the Republic of Tatarstan implemented fact-finding measures regarding illegal developmentof commonly occurring mineral resources. A raid was conducted on January 14, 2015 based on the information received from citizens via Ministry’s hotline on illegal quarry development in Aviastroitelny district.
From 10 pm to 12 am, fellow workers of the Ministryregistered plate numbers and makes of 9 trucks loaded with commonly occurring mineral resources, namely, sand. The site of sand unloading was revealed by fellow workers of the state inspection as a result of operational escorting of loaded trucks. Fellow workers of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Republic of Tatarstan were called to the location to carry out the workjointly. All in all, 4 trucks were stopped for inspection while leaving the site of quarry development, whereof 1 truck was loaded with sand, and 3 trucks were empty. Following the results of the inspection it was revealed that the sand was dumped on the road. A new road cleared from snow was detected at the site of illegal quarry development together

Today, inspectors of the Central Territorial Department under the Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources of the Republic of Tatarstan conducted a raid to reveal the sites of unauthorizedsnow storage. Violation of the rules for Kazan beautification were detected on the intersectionof Pobedy ave and Minskaya str, where the area of a snow dump site amounts to 20 thousand square meters. An administrative protocol was drawn up with regard to this fact. All in all, inspectors of the Ministry of Ecology revealed 8unauthorized snow dump sites. At present, there are 6 snow melting chambers in Kazan. Moreover, each district has 12places for temporary snow storage with areaamounting to 26 hectares. The measures aimed at revelation of violation of the rules for Kazan beautification are still implemented by inspectors of the Central Territorial Department, and night raids have also been arranged.

The work on equipment of gas filling stations with systems for collection and recuperation of fuel vapors continues.
Experts of the Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources of the Republic of Tatarstan familiarized with operation of the closed system for dischargeof oil products at the gas filling station of “Autodorstroy” LLC located on 23 Clara Tsetkin str.in Kazan. The system implies collection of fuel vaporsfrom reservoirs andfuel-dispensing units into road-tankers for further removal of vapors and their recuperation at oil delivery terminals.
In the course of the first stage – up to the end of 2015 —facilities for supply of oil products carry out work on equipment of gas filling stations owned by them within the time limits of theapproved programs.
All in all, at present, 61 gas fuel stations in Kazan have already been equipped with the systems for fuel vapor recuperation.
The work carried out in this direction will allow to considerably decrease man-induced impact and discharges of pollutants into the air fromthe fueling complex facilities