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Today, the Minister for Ecology and Natural Resources of the Republic of Tatarstan, Artem Sidorov, met with pupilsof KazanIT-vocational school under Kazan Federal University. Panel discussion and the Festival of technical art were held in the framework of the meeting among pupils ofIТ – vocational school under Kazan Federal University. Pupils presented a series of environment-oriented projects, in particular, technologies regarding air purification, waste recovery, energy saving, as well as the project featuring creationof robots to draw samples of water, air and soil in dangerous and hard to reach places. The best pieces of work were awarded with certificates. The Minister for Ecology, Artem Sidorov, acknowledged active stand of pupils.He awarded the staff of IT-vocational school with a Letter of gratitude for fostering of ecological awareness among young people. “We obtain synergistic effect through the lens of IT-technologies.The environmental topic is of great relevance, since any field is in one way or another related to the matters of ecology, efficient use of energy and resources, as well as nature protection technologies. Today, we have seen a great deal of high-quality pieces of work that deserve attention, will be a success and will be continued”, summarized the Minister Artem Sidorov.

A press conference devoted to the start of the annual nature protection, ecological and educational campaign “Grackles have come” was held today at the Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources of the Republic of Tatarstan.
“Grackles have come” is an annual nature protection campaign, where a children’s contest envisaging construction of birdhouses is the central event. Organizers include a DIY hypermarket “Maxidom”with the assistance of the Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources of the Republic of Tatarstan, the Ministry of Forestry of the Republic of Tatarstan, and Kazan Executive Committee.

The “Days of energy saving and enhancement of efficiency of energy and resources in the Republic of Tatarstan” are held at the expo center “Kazan Fair”. Today, an ecological section “Efficiency of energy and resources: a view on ecology”was held in the framework of the event under the chairmanship of the First Deputy Minister for Ecology and Natural Resources of the Republic of Tatarstan, Rustem Kamalov. The matters regarding creation and development of high efficiency eco-friendly and low-waste production systems, enhancement of efficiency of energy and resources of industrial enterprises, prevention of negative ecological impact of inefficient use of resources considering long-term ecological consequences were discussed. Heads, leading specialists and experts of ministries, authorities, companies, and scientific enterprises of the regions of Russia, as wellas far- and near-abroad countries participated in work of the section.

The 2nd district research and practice conference “Through search and art to perfection” was held at Verkhny Arabash secondary school of Kukmor district.
Participants’ pieces of work were presented in four categories:
- “Natural and historical monuments”;
- “Ecological and biological problems and human health”;
- “In the lead-up to celebration of 70th anniversary of the Great Patriotic War”,
- “Technical and ornamental and applied art”.

Inspectors of the South-Eastern Territorial Department under the Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources of the Republic of Tatarstan revealed the fact of illegal extraction of common mineral resources(limestone) in Kerligach deposit (siteNo. 1) to the west of Kerligach village of Leninogorsk municipal districtby the Limited Liability company “Kerligach management of open cast mines”.

Inspectors of the Cis-Kama Territorial Department revealed violation in the activity of the Limited Liability Company “TIS” in the course of an ordinary field examination. In the course of operation ofa powder coating curing oven the company emitted harmful pollutants into the air without special permission, which violates paragraph 1 of Article 14 of the Federal Law“On air protection”No. 96-FZas ofMay 4,1999.

An on-site class of pupils engaged in the project group of school No. 2 of Buinsk was held in the framework of implementation of research and practice project “Health of my school” (school ecological monitoring) in the building of the Trans-Volga Territorial Department under the Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources of the Republic of Tatarstan.
Pupils familiarized with the activity of the Trans-Volga subsidiary of the Central specialized inspection of analytical control, where practical lessons on laboratory analysis of water samples drawn from the Sviaga river were given.

The meeting of the Committee of the State Council for Ecology, use of natural resources and agricultural matters was held on March12 at the State Council of the Republic of Tatarstan.The First Deputy Minister for Ecology and Natural Resources of the Republic of Tatarstan, Rustem Kamalov, presented a report on fulfillment of legislative regulations in the field of soil protection and rational use of land resources by the Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources. Joint work with the Administration of the Federal Service of Russia for Hydrometeorology and Monitoring of the Environment (Roshydromet) was acknowledged in the field of monitoring of the state and pollution of the environment. The Ministry of Ecology controls soil pollution in compliance with the approved schedule for environment state control.At present, the monitoring is carried out by eight specialized inspections of analytical control under the Ministry at 37 monitoring points, including specially protected natural areas with obtainment of baseline values of pollutants to evaluate ecological state of the territory and their use in the course of state environmental control over economic activity of the users of natural resources

The Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources of the Republic of Tatarstan is holding the Vspecialized exhibition and congress “Clean water. Kazan 2014” with the assistance of the Government of the Republic of Tatarstan andthe Federal Water Resources Agency. The events will be held on March 26-28th.

“Clean water. Kazan” is a complex event including mainly an exhibition and a congress that are held simultaneously, thus, allowing to combine demonstration of advanced technologies with discussion of problems faced by this industry.The whole spectrum of equipment and services for restoration and protection of water resources, utility and industrial water supply, purification of waste waters and water bottling will be presented at the exhibition by participating companies

The Second International Forum “Human health and nutrition 2014” will be held in Moscow on April 24-25th. The main aim of the event is to achieve interrelation between health of the population, nutrition quality and life style in order to come to solutions in the field of legal groundwork for food security, prevention and treatment of diseases of the population through nutrition; development of the domestic market of healthy and eco-friendly food products; improvement of social, medical and preventative nutrition.