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Kazan Children’s Ecological and Biological Center together with the RepublicanOlympiad Center of the Republic of Tatarstan announced the start of the municipal contest“Second life of the packaging”.Educational establishments of Kazan can participate. The project is aimed at wide propaganda of healthy lifestyleamong pupils of secondary educational establishments, at fostering of the healthy lifestyle skills in the young generation. The event will be held in the categories“Clothes modeling”, “Toy”, and “Composition”. The organizers expect the participants to bring crafts, photos, posters, essays and even costumes created using secondary materials.

An address was received by the Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources of the Republic of Tatarstan on November 4, 2014 on discharge of liquid wastes of chemical substances on to thelandscape of the coastal band of the lakelocated near urban settlement Voronino of Kirov district of Kazan. State inspectors and experts of the Central specialized inspection of analytical control under the Ministry of Ecology together with fellow workersof the police departmentNo. 4 “Yudino” under the Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation for Kazan conducted a field trip to draw soil samples.In the course of inspection they revealed the fact of discharge of yellow wastes of paints and varnishes with

International scientific conference “Ecological history in Russia: stages of establishment and projectedtrends of researches” will be held in Elabuga on November13– 15, 2014. The event is organized by Kazan Federal University with the assistance of the European Society for Ecological History. The event is aimed at analysis of development of historical and ecological approach in the Russian historiography during the last decades, its modern state and prospects.In the framework of the conference it is planned to present the leading international magazine“Environment andHistory” issued by the European society for ecological history.

The IV International forum“Climatic change and ecology of industrial city” will be held on November 12-14, 2014 in Chelyabinsk.The project is aimed at creation of favorable conditionsfor maintenance of existing business contacts and creation of new mutually beneficial bonds between participants of the market of ecological ad energy-saving innovations.In the framework of the forum it is planned to discuss the issues on application of ecology-related legislation, the process of making profit from implementationof ecological and energy-saving innovation technologies. Participants of discussion in the framework of the forum

The solemn ceremony of awarding the winners of the 3rd Open Republican Youth Contest of Social Ecological Advertisement “Clear view” will be held on November 28, 2014. The contest is held by the Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources of the Republic of Tatarstan in order to engage the population in solution of nature protection problems, and to give a chance to young people to have a possibility to express their attitude to this or that ecology-related problem.

Table tennis contest was held on November 9, 2014 in Kazan in the framework of the Spartakiade of the state and municipal officials of the Republic of Tatarstan in the universal sports complex “Mirax”. The team of the Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources of the Republic of Tatarstan was rated the 10th. The Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources of the Republic of Tatarstan was the 5th in the team scoring of the Spartakiade of State officials of the Republic of Tatarstan.

The XV International Research-to-Practice Conference “Waste recycling” will be held in St. Petersburg on December 3-5, 2014.
Representatives of the field business, scientists, experts, state officials and public figures will participate in the event. The matters will be discussed regarding the necessity to enhance creation and development of a new industrial field in

The 3rd International Specialized Exposition of ecologically friendly, natural and organic products “EcoCityExpo Autumn 2014” will be held on November 21 – 23, 2014in Moscow.Within three days eco-products of Russian and foreign manufacturers will be presented in four sections:
- “EcoFood”–ecological products and drinks, healthy food, farming products;
- “EcoBeauty”–organic and natural products in the industry of beauty, makeup and fashion;
- “EcoHouse”–everything for arrangement, maintenance and construction of ecological housing;
- “EcoChildren”–ecoproducts for children and their parents.

The briefing devoted to the results of the Decade for sanitary and ecological cleaning of territories of municipal formations of the Republic of Tatarstan — it took place on October 8-18th — was held today at the Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources of the Republic of Tatarstan. The following officials responded to the questions of the journalists:Deputy Minister for Ecology and Natural Resources, Chief State Inspector of the Republic of Tatarstan for Nature Protection Ramil Nizamov,Head of the Central Territorial Department under the Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources of the Republic of TatarstanIlkham Sabirov, Head of the Department for Ecological Education and Interaction with Public Organizations under the Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources of the Republic of Tatarstan Damir Valiullin.

The work on equipment of gas filling stations with the systems of collection and recuperationof motor fuel vapors is continued in Tatarstan. In Naberezhnye Chelny, fellow workers of Cis-Kama Territorial Department under the Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources of the Republic of Tatarstan familiarized with operationof the closed system of discharge of petroleum products at gas filling stations of the company “Diana and K” LLC, in particular,at the gas filling station “Autostolitsa” located at the intersection of Mira ave and Yashlek ave. The system implies collection of motor fuel vapors from reservoirs and fuel-dispensing units into