Society

• Infrastructure 17 October, 09:00 “It isn’t a matter of show-off”: Fishman-Bekmambetova to bring World Urban Park Congress to Kazan Architect who reconstructed Lower Manhattan after the 9/11 tragedy Ken Smith and head of the Russian Ministry of Construction Vladimir Yakushev are among the guests
• Infrastructure 16 October, 09:00 Zinnurov&Co to bring sport to the masses through tax concessions to businesses State Duma deputy Irek Zunnirov supports the initiative of giving tax concessions to the enterprises building sports and cultural centres
• Authorities 16 October, 09:00 Theologians in Bolgar: “We don’t understand when a provincial court bans an Islamic book” It is offered to create an all-Russian expert agency checking religious literature at Bolgarian Islamic Academy

• Authorities 17 October, 09:00 “There is a version: Brezhnev was put as a kind of transitional figure” Historian Alexander Shubin about Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev, the Stagnation Period and the threshold of perestroika
• History 16 October, 09:00 “If Mussolini hadn’t joined the war on Hitler's side, he would have had a chance to survive. But he was carried away with his playing” The series of interviews by the 80th anniversary of the beginning of Second World War. Part 10: Italy
• Authorities 15 October, 09:00 İsmet Erikan: “I left the room with such a feeling as if I had been familiar with Mr Minnikhanov and Mr Shaimiyev for years” The consul general of Turkey to Kazan gave an interview to Realnoe Vremya

• 15 October, 09:00 Customs don’t greenlight — 500 parcels with counterfeit revealed in Tatarstan Almost 5,500 forbidden medicines and commercial consignments of toys and spare parts tried to import in parcels into the region
• History 14 October, 09:00 Lessons of Russia’s Black Tuesday: ruble's sharp plunge to repeat in Russia? The ruble fell by 40% in one day a quarter of a century ago. How did this happen and can the crisis happen again?
• History 11 October, 09:00 “The Italians considered themselves defeated among the winners of WWI. They fought bad and turned out to owe everybody” A cycle of interviews by the 80th anniversary of the start of WWII. Part 9: Italy

• Authorities 14 October, 09:00 Autumn governor reshuffle: what regional dismissals and appointments is the Kremlin preparing for late October? Who of the regional leaders with high anti-ratings will be sacrificed for the sake of successful election in 2020?
• Authorities 14 October, 09:00 “Shaimiev is the creator of the new political quality of Tatarstan, its political self-identity” The first president of Tatarstan is among the three most influential and mentioned veteran politicians
• Culture 11 October, 09:00 “Russian cinema is better than Soviet, 70% of the latter was a terrible waste of paper” Film critic Aleksandr Shpagin on what Russian cinematography has achieved in the year of its 100th anniversary