Society

• Authorities 26 November, 09:00 Russia to ban sales of gadgets without local software From July 2020, smartphones, computers and smart televisions are supposed to have pre-installed Russian software
• Education 25 November, 09:00 His Grace Feofan: “Our task is not to compete in whose mosque or bell tower is higher” The head of the Tatarstan metropolis about the role of the Russian Orthodox Church, social networks, Columbiners and education of the youth
• Authorities 22 November, 09:00 Shamil Ageyev, Tatarstan Chamber of Commerce and Industry: “The pressure on entrepreneurship doesn’t reduce” Experts on the big gap in business support — “between what’s declared at the top and real actions”

• 25 November, 09:00 “The regime is given not to regions but to people!” — self-employed project to be expanded to 19 regions? Russia’s State Duma deputies have voted in favour of the extension of the new tax regime in the first reading
• Authorities 25 November, 09:00 Russia wants to exclude gas condensate from OPEC deal
• 22 November, 09:00 “We became too secular”: why are religious studies as important as knowledge of the Constitution? A solution to the ideological opposition between traditional Islam and online recruiters was looked for in Kazan

• Authorities 22 November, 09:00 “Considering that gas is half of the price, the benefit is obvious” Russia’s Ministry of Agriculture urges farmers to drop diesel and petrol in favour of natural gas
• Education 21 November, 09:00 Olga Vasilyeva about Great Stand on the Ugra River: “One shouldn’t confuse teaching with politics” Topical Issues of Russian Humanitarian Education Forum in Kazan has urged not to politicize history
• Culture 21 November, 09:00 “When this team appears on the stage, the audience can be sure — quality spectacle awaits them” The team of Nizhnekamskneftekhim has won the first team place in the VII annual open republican festival of creativity of working youth Our Time-Beznen Zaman

• Infrastructure 21 November, 09:00 Record-high tender: who’s to protect Kazan railway stations from terrorists for 1,3bn? Russian Railways invited a tender where bombs will be looked for and wrongdoers will be caught for five years in Kazan and Kazan-2 Railway Stations
• Infrastructure 21 November, 09:00 “Part of the money for road works gets to the regions only in October. This can’t be allowed!” Regions will get the first intergovernmental transfers till the end of the year, at the same time their publicly funded loans will be reduced
• Authorities 20 November, 09:00 “Tatarstan has always tried to choose those areas of digitalisation that will have the greatest effect”