On August 21 Tatarstan Prime-Minister Ildar Khalikov met with participants of the round-the-world bike marathon at Tatartsan Government House.

Tatarstan Minister of youth affairs, sports and tourism Rafis Burganov took part in the meeting.

To the point, the round-the-world bike marathon was timed to two remarkable events – Summer Universiade 2013 in Kazan and 100 anniversary of two-year round-the-world bicycle trip by Kazan citizen Onisim Pankratov.

On August 21 Tatarstan President Rustam Minnikhanov, Russian Minister of Communications and Mass Media Nikolay Nikiforov, Director General of OOO “Gasprom Transgas Kazan” Rafkat Kantyukov took part in the ceremony of putting the first section of gas distribution pipeline into operation at new IT city “Innopolis”.

On August 20 at their meeting at Tatarstan Government House Tatarstan Prime Minister Ildar Khalikov and AECOM officials - Regional Director, Russia/CIS, Transportation Vladimir Avetisyan and Managing Director, Russia Anthony Young discussed cooperation issues on a number of projects as well as preparation of complex traffic plan for holding of the 2018 FIFA World Cup in Kazan.

On August 19 Tatarstan Prime Minister Ildar Khalikov took part in opening of X adult and V children summer sports competitions of OAO “Gasprom” in Kazan (August 17-24). 2500 people from 29 subsidiaries of OAO “Gasprom” will compete in volleyball, athletics, swimming, kettlebell lifting, basketball and football for 396 medals. Participants of the event will live in Universiade Village.