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Kazan Ecological and Biological Center holds a City open ecological forum “Zilant”. Pupils of educational establishments of Kazan from 8th to 11th forms can participate in the contest.Pieces of work – photographs, essays, wall papers, and poems–are accepted in the following categories: “Industrial ecology”, “Water projects”, “Homo Sapiens: social ecology, psychology”, “Flora, ecology of plants”, “Fauna, ecology of animals”, “Bio-indication”. The section“Preservation of biodiversity and the problems of protection of natural resources of the Republic of Tatarstan” will operate in the framework of the contest, wherereports on the carried out nature protection projects will be listened to. Assessment criteria include practicalsignificance and justification of the current problem; setting of goals and tasks; originality of approaches (independent authors’ opinion on the problemof interest), the extent of executed work, the extent of implementation of nature protection project; the quality of report execution. Research projects are not

The International Ecological Contest of children’s creativity “The Red Book as viewed by children” started in Khanty-Mansiysk. The project is implemented in the framework of the International Ecological Campaign“Save and Protect” under the aegis of the Commission of the Russian Federation for UNESCO.The contest is aimed at formation of ecological culture and active attitude of the young generation with regard to the problem of reduction of diversity of flora and fauna in various regions and on the planet in general.Children from 6 to 17 years of age living both on the territory of the Russian Federation and abroad can participate in it.Categories of the contest include essay, photography, painting, graphic arts, sculpture touching upon ecology andmorality. Moreover, creative

The group round of basketball competitions took place on December 6, 2014 in Kazanin the framework of the Spartakiade of State and municipal officials of the Republic of Tatarstanin the Universal Sports Complex “Vatan”. The team of the Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources of the Republic of Tatarstan made the basketball playoffs after successful completion of the group stage. The next game will take place on December13th.

Presentation of geo-information systems of the Republic for the fellow workers of the Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources of the Republic of Tatarstan was demonstrated in the technopark of high technologies “IT-park”. Participants familiarized with work of “IT-park”, visited offices for small and medium IT-companies, and a business incubator for 40 startups. The latest achievements of the Tatar developers in the field of rendering of state e-services were shown to the fellow workers of the Ministry at the Center for the System for dispatching emergency servicesGLONASS+112.

City stage of the All-Russian Junior Contest “New growth”started in Kazan.The contest is held by Kazan Board of Educationtogether with Kazan Children’s Ecological and Biological Center. The contest is aimed at involvement of students of educational establishments of Russiainto the process of studying of forest ecosystems and practical nature protection activityaimed at expansion and deepening of knowledge, acquisition of skills and expertise in ecology, forest management and methods of forest protection that lead to ecological education of the young generation, ecological and forestry education and professional self determination. Students of educational establishments of

Industrial and Ecological Forum“RosPromEco-2014” is held these days in Moscowalong with the exposition“Cost-effective use of resources in order to ensure sustainable development”.The Forum is aimed at presentation of innovation national and foreign developments in the field of prevention and diminution of negative impacton the environment at every stageof the life cycle of products: from extraction of raw materialsto transformation them into wastes liable to recovery.

The meeting of the Anti-Corruption Commission under the Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources of the Republic of Tatarstan devoted to the International Anti-Corruption Day was held today at the Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources of the Republic of Tatarstan.
The following topics were discussed in the course of the meeting:
1. Information in the framework of the International Anti-Corruption Day (background of the Anti-Corruption Day, history of the term “corruption”, the state of corruption in Russia).
2. Implementation of Anti-Corruption Program of the Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources of the Republic of Tatarstan in the last 11 months of 2014with review of the results of monitoring of the information on corrupt practices of officials of the

Today, the Minister for Ecology and Natural Resources of the Republic of Tatarstan Artem Sidorovdelivered Letters of Gratitude to the fellow workers of the Ministry who took active part in the contest on the use of the Portal of State and Municipal Services of the Republic of Tatarstan. The contest was held from May 19th until November 30th, 2014. The following people were among the winners:
1st place – Sirena Ibatullina, leading expert of the Sector for interaction with mass media;
2nd place – Elvira Nurieva, leading expert of the Specialized Inspection for Analytical Controlof the Cis-Kama Territorial Department;
3rd place – Liliya Gizatulina, Head of the Department for Development of Information Systems and Information Support.

Experts of the Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources of the Republic of Tatarstan inspected the system for collection and recuperation of fuel vaporsat theoil delivery terminalof “TATNEFT” OJSC of Tukaevo district.
Today, equipment of gas filling stations is carried out by companies in two principal ways: the first one is to equip gas filling stations directly with systems for collection and recuperation of fuel vapors. The second way is to equip gas filling stations with recuperation systemsto ensure return of gas vapors into the road tank during discharge of oil products into reservoirs, as well as implementation at oil delivery terminals of the systems for airproof bottom loading of fuel into road tanks and recuperation of vapors of oil products.Considering that burst releases from the so called “out-breathing”, i.e. the fuel storage reservoirs, significantly

Today, at the Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources of the Republic of Tatarstan, Deputy Minister for Ecology and Natural Resources – Chief State Inspector for Nature Protection of the Republic of Tatarstan Ramil Nizamov,and Deputy Prosecutor of the Interdistrict Kazan Nature Protection Prosecutor’s Office Ravil Akhmetzyanov carried out technical training of state inspectorson nature protection powers in the context of making amendments to the administrative legislation of the Administrative Code of the Russian Federation as of November 15th, 2014.The event was held in the form of a video conference with participation of heads and inspectors of territorial departments of the Ministry.