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The All-Russian Ecological Olympiad forPupils is held these days in Moscow. The Olympiad is aimed at improvement of further ecological education of childrenintended for enhancement of the level of their knowledge on ecologyand relatedsciences, and fostering of their interest to educational, exploratory, andexperimental activity. Pupils of forms 5-11 from all Russian regions can take part in it. The events will be held until January20th.

Children’s New Year Show withfairy-tale characters, Ded Moroz and the snow maiden Snegurochka, was held today at the Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources of the Republic of Tatarstan.Various contests and quizzes were arranged for the children. Children also received sweet presents. This is the second time that this event is held by the Ministry for the employees’ children.

Members of the Ministry’s team who participated in sports contests in the framework of the Spartakiade of State Officials of the Republic of Tatarstan were awarded today at the Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources of the Republic of Tatarstan. The Minister for Ecology Artem Sidorov delivered Letters of gratitude and valuable prizes.He expressed his gratitude to the team for active participation and wished further success.The contests were carried out in the context of 9 sports, wherein teams of 30 ministries and authorities took part. Following the results of the team classification, the Ministry’s team was rated the sixth in the Spartakiade of State Officials 2014 having gained 268 points.

An ecological and education campaign “Lesson of Cleanliness” was held today at secondary educational establishments of the Republic of Tatarstan. Fellow workers of nature protection authorities, federal and republican executive authoritiestaught the class as lecturers.
Experts of the Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources of the Republic of Tatarstan told the pupils about the plans of the Ministry for the next year that is declared to be the Year of Parks and Garden Squares at the School of Young Ecological Specialist at the premises of the Municipal Budgetary Educational Establishment “Vocational School No. 5” of Kazan. Fellow workers of the State Historical, Architectural and Art Reserve Museum “Kazan Kremlin” andscientific project group “Piligrim” arranged demonstration of geological showpieces– a collection ofthe extinct subclass of cephalopod, i.e.ammonites.

Participants of the expedition carried out by the branch of the Russian Geographical Society in the Republic of Tatarstan “Antarctic-100” returned today from the Antarctic to Kazan.The Minister for Ecology and Natural Resources of the Republic of Tatarstan Artem Sidorov welcomed them at the railway station.On behalf of the government of the Republic, he congratulated the scientific team on the world victory, expressed his gratitudefor close cooperationand wished further achievements. Several measures are implementedtoday in the Republic by the Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources of the Republic of Tatarstantogether with Tatar branch of the Russian Geographical Society, in particular, cleaning of water facilities, the campaign “Clean coastlines” and many more; a project related to studying and inventory of sunkenfloating crafts is planned along their further surfacing.
“Antarctic-100” is the third stage of a large-scale research project “Cold Pole”unitingTatar branch of the Russian

The meetings of working teams were held at structural subdivisions of the Central Office and territorial departments of the Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources of the Republic of Tatarstan in the framework of the International Anti-Corruption Day“On the behavior that might be perceived byothers as a promise or suggestion of bribery, or consent to accept a bribe, or requestof bribery”.

Today, it’s the birthday of the Head of Nature Protection Department under the Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources of the Republic of Tatarstan Albert Anatolyevich Shubin. He started working at the Ministryin August 2011as Deputy Head of the Central Specialized Inspection for Analytical Control.Team of the Ministry of Ecology congratulates him on his birthdaywishing him health, vigor, moral courage, optimism and unflagging energy.

The work on equipment of gas fuel stationswith the systems for collection and recuperation of fuel vaporsgoes on in Tatarstan. Experts of the Cis-Kama Territorial Department under the Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources of the Republic of Tatarstanfamiliarized with operation of the closed system of discharge of oil products at the gas filling station of “Kuzkay” LLC located at the intersection of Mashinostroiteley str. and Avtozavodsky ave in Naberezhnye Chelny. 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.All in all, 34 out of 72 gas fuel stations in Naberezhnye Chelny are equipped with such systems.

The solemn ceremony of awarding of winners of “Ecoleader” and “Man and Nature” contests was held today in Kazan at the shopping center “Korston”. The contests are aimed at attraction of public attention to the problems of ecological safety, encouragement of companies’ nature protection activity, as well as activation of work of Republican mass media, and improvement of professional skills of journalists involved in the coverage of ecological topics.Prime Minister of the Republic of Tatarstan Ildar Khalikov participated in the event. In his welcoming speech he acknowledged that the amount of peoplewho understand and become aware of the necessity to preserve ecology of Tatarstan grows year after year. The Prime Minister acknowledged campaigns and projects implementedin municipalities, in particular, “Green Record”. Ildar Khalikov specifically distinguished ecological projects of oil and petrochemical companies who do a lot more than it is envisaged by the requirements of the applicable legislation.“These

The solemn ceremony of awarding of winners of the contests “Ecoleader” and “Man and nature”will be held on December22 at 1 p.m. in Kazan at the trade and shopping center “Korston”. The registration is to start at noon.
The contests are held in order to attract public attention to the problems of ecological safety, encouragement of nature protection activityof companies, as well as activation of work ofthe Republican mass media,and improvementof professional skills of journalists engaged in coverage of ecological news.
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