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The Republican Field Olympiad of young geologists was opened today in Kazan at the children’s recreation camp “Zarechye”.ThePrimeMinisteroftheRepublicofTatarstanIldarKhalikov, DeputyPrimeMinister–the Minister of Education and Science of the Republic of Tatarstan Engel Fattakhov, the Minister for Ecology and Natural Resources of the Republic of Tatarstan Artem Sidorov took part in the solemn ceremony.

Laureates of the First National Award in the field of water and economic complex of the Russian Federation were awarded intheframeworkoftheAll-Russianresearch-to-practiceconference “Legalregulationofwaterrelations: relevant tasks and challenges” that had been held in Sochi on May29-30, 2014. The award was assigned on the initiative of the Ministry of Natural Resources and Ecology of the Russian Federation in the context of the Federal target program “Development of the water and economic complex of the Russian Federation in 2012 – 2020”. Itisforthefirsttimeinthehistoryofthecountry that the awards were given to the companies, public characters and scientists who had made a considerable contribution into the development of the water and economic complex of the country.The best representatives of state authorities, business communities, as well as ecologically liable companies and laureates in the sphere of science are found in the list of nominees, which is the same list of companies engaged in preservation and conservation of water resources.

On the basis of referrals of citizens on discharge of harmful substances (pollutants) into the air from the companies located on Sadovodcheskaya street in Naberezhnye Chelny, experts of the Cis-Kama territorial department under the Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources of the Republic of Tatarstan initiated administrative investigation against individuals involved in this violation.

Fellow workers of the Cis-Kama Territorial Department under the Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources of the Republic of Tatarstantogether with fellow workersof the Line Internal Affairs Department and the Economic Crime Department conducted a raid on May 6, 2014 in the framework of the state ecological monitoring to inspect the water area of the Nizhnekamsk water reserve.

Solemnevents devoted to the 10th anniversary of the Federal Service for Supervision of Natural Resource Usage and to the World Day of Environment and the Day of Ecological Expert are held today in Moscow at the State Kremlin Palace.Representativesofthefederalandregionalauthoritiesofthestategovernment, ecological organizations and business community participate in the event. The delegation from Tatarstan is represented by the Deputy of the State Duma of the Russian Federation, Fatikh Sibgatulli, the Minister for Ecology and Natural Resources of the Republic of Tatarstan Artem Sidorov and the Head of the Federal Service for Supervision of Natural Resource Usage for the Republic of Tatarstan Farit Khayrutdinov.

Today, experts of the Northern Territorial Department under the Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources of the Republic of Tatarstan visited a summer school camp “Friends of Nature” in Arsk Municipal District. The work of the camp is aimed at fostering of ecological awareness, education and upbringing of the young generation. Experts of the Ministry of Ecology gave a lecture and presented a film on conservation of nature of the motherland, and they also answered pupils’ questions.

Traditionally, the International Day of water body cleaning is celebrated in Russia on the first Saturday of June.Onthisday, clubs of underwater swimming organize a field trip to local water bodies where they clean the coastal area and bottoms by efforts of divers. InKazan, thecampaignwasheldonJune 7thonthelakeGlubokoeandthelakeLebyazye,and it was arranged by the Tatar department of the Russian Geographical Societywith the assistance of the Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources of the Republic of Tatarstan, as well as Kazan Town Hall.FirstDeputyMinisterforEcologyandNaturalResourcesoftheRepublicofTatarstanRustemKamalov, Deputy Minister – Chief State Inspector for Nature Protection Ramil Nizamov, representatives of the Russian Geographical Society, public organizations and proponents took part in the Day of water body cleaning. All in all, 7 cubic meters of trash were removed from the territory and the bottom of lakes.

A briefing on the results of the two-month sanitary and ecological campaign held in the Republic of Tatarstan was held today at the Cabinet of Ministers of the Republic of Tatarstan. The Minister for Ecology and Natural Resources of the Republic of Tatarstan, Artem Sidorov, told the journalists that from April 1 until June 1, state inspectors revealed 5,567 violations of the nature protection legislation in the course of conducted raids. Allinall, 182 legal persons were held administratively liable, and 4,475 protocols were drawn up against officials and individuals. Thefineswereimposedintheamountof26 million 530 thousand rubles. Outof 1,217 unauthorizedlandfillsrevealedinthecourse of a two-month campaign,1,085 were liquidated making up89%.

Dear citizens of Tatarstan!
The Day of Ecological Expert is celebrated on June 5th in our Republic and in the whole country, while the Day of Environmental Protection is celebrated all over the world. This holiday concerns anyone who makes a strong contribution into a noble field of nature protection and recovery. Today, I would like to congratulate both those experts whose everyday activity is related to environmental protection, and all those for whom preservation and augmentation of natural wealth has become an everyday way of life. Fortunately, ecological movement has been lately becoming a large-scale one obtaining priority support on the highest political level. Year after year more and more people come to understand that the future of the civilization, as well as sustainable development of society and the life of every person on the planet depend on our efforts.

OnJune 5, 2014, in the framework of the Day of Ecological Expert, the first International ecological Saturday work campaign will be held on the territory of Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan.
FellowworkersoftheMinistryofEcologyandNaturalResourcesoftheRepublicofTatarstanalong with proponents of public ecological organizations and the Young Guard of the United Russia will clean the territory of the coastal area of the lake Kaban from litter.Moreover, cleaning campaigns will be held in every city and every district of the Republic of Tatarstan.