Authorities

• 28 August, 09:00 Boris Mendelevich: “We should create such conditions where health care workers will work full time and get a decent salary” The State Duma’s Commission on Health Care offered to recount doctors’ salaries
• 22 August, 09:00 “People should have a choice to vote traditionally or online” Residents of Tatarstan can have a chance to vote online from next year — everything depends on the success of the Central Election Commission’s experiment
• 16 August, 09:00 Comrade Mayor’s leaker: “I gave them the mobile phone. Instead, I got big traffic on my website”

• 27 August, 09:00 Gumer Isaev: “Arafat shouldn’t be either idolised or demonised. He was a pragmatist” With an olive branch and rifle: the debatable character of the charismatic leader of Palestinian opposition
• 19 August, 09:00 Arkady Gershman: “Putting the historical heritage in order brings more profit to the city than new buildings” Russian blogger-urbanist Arkady Gershman — about urban improvement in Kazan and Russia
• 14 August, 09:00 Aleksey Kurtov: “Putin is inclined to consider the citizens even not as subjects but as children” The president of the Russian Association of Political Consultants about the 20th anniversary of “Putin’s Russia”. Part 2

• 13 August, 09:00 Aleksey Kurtov: “A desire to be the best president of all times and peoples does Putin a disservice” The president of the Russian Association of Political Consultants about the 20th anniversary of “Putin’s Russia”. Part 1
• 08 August, 09:00 Tatarstan citizens to learn the genealogy of their family with the help of State Archive by 100th anniversary of Tatarstan The department is launching the genealogical portal by the remarkable date
• 07 August, 09:00 Why school canteens in Kazan be equipped with bar counters and sofas? At first, 38 educational institutions will update their eating units — they will work in the format of school restaurants

• 12 August, 09:00 “Atambayev made wrong move using supporters as cannon fodder” Political experts call the actions of the ex-president of Kyrgyzstan the main mistake in his career, the consequences can lead to the third revolution
• 08 August, 09:00 Kirill Kabanov, Council for Human Rights: “Our functionaries already start to take bribes in bitcoins!” How the new law obliges the Central Bank to help prosecutors to look for public workers’ foreign accounts while they use subterfuge
• 06 August, 09:00 Elmira Zaripova: “We are not going to retrain an engineer to become a janitor” Tatarstan is going to retrain 4,300 pre-pensioners by the end of the year