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The 9th stage of the Dakar 2013 transcontinental rally raid on Monday took place on the San Miguel de Tucuman – Cordoba route. Trucks were the first to hit the road.
A major symbol of the Winter Olympic Games in Sochi in 2014, a torch, which will carry the Olympic Flame, was presented in Moscow on Monday.
As chief of the committee on external relations and tourism of executive city committee staff Ivan Kadoshnikov marked, speaking at the session, a tourism inflow to Kazan has grown this year by 5 percent.
Yesterday, 7.5 thousand children from all over Tatarstan gathered in Kazan to celebrate the traditional national children's New Year party. President of Tatarstan Rustam Minnikhanov congratulated the young citizens of the republic on the upcoming Universiade year.
Kazan is announced to become Russia’s Capital of New Year celebrations under another large-scale project of Russian Culture Ministry aimed to increase tourists’ flows. The New Year’s capital will be chosen among Russian cities annually and undergo “special celebrations” according to its “special status”, said Sergei Korneev, Head of Culture Ministry’s department of tourism and regional policies.