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Head of the Department for Development of Information Systems and Informational Support under the Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources of the Republic of Tatarstan Liliya Gizatulina celebrates her birthday today. She has been working at the Ministry since 2005 – at first she was first category specialist at the Special inspection for the Main Activity Service, and in 2010 she was appointedHead of Department for Development of Information Systems and Informational Support under the Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources of the Republic of Tatarstan. In November 2014,Liliya Nailevnawas the winner of the Republican contest “Best state official of the

The International Research-to-Practice Conference “Waste recycling”is held these days in St. Petersburg.
Representatives of the field business, scientists, experts, state officials and public figures participate in the event. The matters regarding the necessity to force creation and development a new field of industry in Russia for recovery of materials from renewable resourcesbased onrecycling of processed raw materials are discussed in the framework of the conference

The Meeting of the Federal Ecological Councilunder the chairmanship of the Minister for Natural resources and Ecology of the Russian Federation Sergey Donskoy is held in Moscow.The Minister for Ecology and Natural Resources of the Republic of Tatarstan Artem Sidorov, Chairperson of the Committee for Ecology, Nature Use, Agroindustrial andFood Policy of the State Council of the Republic of Tatarstan Takhir Khadeevparticipate in the event. Suggestions on creation of the Council were voiced by participants of the IV All-Russian Conference for Nature Protection held in December 2013 in Moscow. The Federal Ecological Council will becomethe permanentcollegial body. Its work will be aimed at assurance of interaction between federaland regional legislative and executive authorities in the field of nature protection

The IV All-Russian Research-to-Practice Conference “Anti-corruption dialectics” was held today at the Institute of Economics, Management and Law in Kazan. The principal advisorof the Department for State Service and Personnel under the Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources of the Republic of Tatarstan Yekaterina Piternova participated in the conference.
The following issues were discussed in the framework of the conference:
-corruption as a phenomenon,its interaction with other events and processes;
-political, social, economic and other consequences of corruption;
-post hoc analysis of anti-corruption practices;
-international and foreign anti-corruption experience;
-legal innovations in the anti-corruption field;
-corruption determinants in Russia and abroad;
-anti-corruption experiencein the Republic of Tatarstan and other regions of Russia;

The international exposition for nature protection and sustainable development Pollutec Lyon 2014will be held in France on December 2 – 5, 2014for industrial facilities and regional authorities. The exposition demonstrates the latest achievements in the field ofrecovery and processing of all types of production and consumption wastes, as well as advanced technologies for collection, transportation, sorting and burial of waste products, innovation equipment and special vehicles.

The Minister for Ecology and Natural Resources of the Republic of Tatarstan Artem Sidorov took part in the solemn ceremony for parting of participants of the project “Antarctic-100” to the expedition; the ceremony was held at the Museum of Natural History of Tatarstan. A new project of the Russian Geographical Society is devoted to the discoverer of the Antarctic, the only scientist of the First Russian Antarctic Expedition of 1819-1821, Rector of Kazan University Ivan Mikhaylovich Simonov “Antarctic-100”. During his welcoming word, Artem Sidorov acknowledged the work carried out by the Ministry of Ecology together with the department of the All-Russian Public Organization of the Russian Geographical Society in the Republic of Tatarstan. In particular, nature protection campaigns for cleaning of water facilities, underwater monitoring of sunken floating crafts in the rivers of the Republic. The Minister expressed special gratitude on behalf of citizens of the Republic for implementation of the project “Relics of Tatarstan” related to detection of sunken churches.

Kazan Board of Education together with Kazan Children’s Ecological and Biological Center holds the city stage of the All-Russian contest“My small motherland: nature, culture, ethnicity”. The contest is aimed at fostering of value-conscious attitude to natural and cultural environment in children and youth, as well as tolerance and respect for cultures of other ethnic groupspopulating the territory of Russia. Pupils of educational establishments from 12 to 18 years of age showing interest to studying and preservation of natural and cultural heritage of their small motherland can participate in the contest.
Competitive pieces of work can be presented in the following forms:
− educational and research work –in the category“Humanitarian and ecological researches”;
− a guide or description of the route or path–in the category“Ecological and regional guides”;
− publicistic piece of work (article, essay, sketch and so on) – in the

The agreement on cooperation between the Government of the Republic of Tatarstan and the All-Russian Public Ecological Movement “Green Russia” was signed at the Ministry of Ecology.The document was signed by the FirstDeputy Prime Minister of the Republic of Tatarstan, Alexey Pesoshin, and Chairperson of the All-RussianPublic Ecological Movement “Green Russia”, Konstantin Kurchenkov. The most active participants of the All-Russian Saturday Work Campaign “Green Russia” were invited to the acknowledgement ceremony that was held by Konstantin Kurchenkov and Deputy of the State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation Anatoly Karpov. According to the Minister for Ecology and Natural Resources of the Republic of Tatarstan, Artem Sidorov, the Republic pays great attention to the matters regardingassurance of ecological safety in the Republic of Tatarstan. This work implies close interaction withpublic

Today it’s the anniversary of Head of the Department for Applied Ecology of Kazan Federal University, Doctor of chemical sciences, professor, academician of the Russian Ecological Academy, Chairperson of the Research Council for Ecological Problems under the Presidium of the Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Tatarstan, corresponding member of the Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Tatarstan Venera Latypova. While congratulating Venera Zinnatovna on her anniversary, First Deputy Minister of Ecology Rustem Kamalov delivered the Certificate of Merit on behalf of the Minister for Ecology and Natural Resources of the Republic of Tatarstan Artem Sidorov for long flawless service in the field of nature protection, as well as fruitful cooperation in the sphere of assurance of ecological safety in the Republic of Tatarstan and the results achieved in the field of establishment of public movement.

The Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources of the Republic of Tatarstan won in the annual Republican contest “Best goods and servicesof the Republic of Tatarstan” in the category “Services”. The activity of the Central Specialized Inspection of Analytical Control under the Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources of the Republic of Tatarstan was registered for the contest in the field ofecological and analytical control of environmental facilities.Organizers of the contest included the Ministry of Industry and Trade of the Republic of Tatarstan, Federal Budgetary Establishment “State Regional Center for Standardization, Metrology and Tests in the Republic of Tatarstan”.