War veterans residing in Israel receive name watches as gifts.

TEL - AVIV, May 5 (Itar-Tass) -- Veterans of the Great Patriotic War
who are activists of Israeli veteran organizations on Tuesday received
name watches on the occasion of the 65th anniversary of Victory.
Boris Shpigel, the head of the World Congress of Russian-speaking
Jewry and a member of the Russian Federation Council, presented the gifts
to the veterans.
He thanked them for hard work and feats of arms committed during the
war years. He also wished them good health. The deputies of the Israeli
Knesset (parliament), Marina Solodkina and Yulia Shamalova-Berkovich, who
were also present at the ceremony, noted that the state of Israel would
have never been created without the Great Victory.
For his part, Russia's Ambassador to Israel Pyotr Stegliy
congratulated the veterans. He said that the value of Victory had not
depreciated with years and that it had even increased.
The World Congress of Russian-speaking Jewry has made 8,000 name
watches. The local veteran organizations will hand them over to the
addressees soon.
Many veterans who were present at Tuesday's ceremony were wearing new
Russian jubilee medals "65 Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War of
1941-1945".
Over the past few days, the employees of the Russian embassy in Israel
have handed over almost 16,000 medals to war veterans residing in Israel.

. Putin to visit Kazan, the venue of 2013 World Student Games.

MOSCOW, May 5 (Itar-Tass) - Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin will
visit Kazan, the Republic of Tatarstan, on Wednesday to see how
preparations for the 2013 World Student Games are under way. The prime
minister will visit facilities under construction, see the already
finished sport palaces and stadiums and will hold a conference on
preparations for the youth games.
The World Student Games are almost as significant as the Olympic
games. More than a half of World Student Games participants later take
part in Olympics, while sport facilities built for student games are later
used for developing both the sport of high achievements and mass sport.
A government source told Itar-Tass that in Kazan Putin would visit
several dwelling and sport facilities. There are 64 facilities, of which
30 are sport facilities, as well as the Village of the World Student Games
and objects of the city infrastructure.
Putin will visit a martial arts palace "Ak Bars". It opened in 2009
and was one of the first facilities built for the student games. The
palace will host competitions in judo wrestling, unarmed self-defence and
belt wrestling.
Vladimir Putin will also attend a ground-breaking ceremony of a
football stadium where the 2013 World Student Games are going to kick off
and close. Designed with account taken of the FIFA recommendations and
requirements, the stadium will cover an area of 66,500 square meters and
will be able to accommodate 45,000 spectators.
One of the key facilities of the forthcoming student games will be the
Village meant for more than 14,000 athletes.
Kazan is not only building sport facilities but is also modernizing
its transport infrastructure. Special attention is being paid to an
international airport whose overhaul reconstruction will make its possible
to increase its capacity to five million passengers a year. The federal
budget has allocated 5.96 billion roubles for this purpose.
Railway and river transport will also develop. Overall repairs of the
Kazan railway hub will make it possible to unload the city centre. A
separate railway track will take passengers from the airport to the city.
If reconstructed, the city river port will be able to receive more ships
and create floating hotels onboard ships.
In 2009, the federal budget allocated 10.97 billion roubles for the
construction of the Village for the World Student Games. In 2010, the
appropriations will be 9.9 billion roubles.
Eleven sport facilities had begun operation in Kazan by April this
year. Another seven sport facilities will open in May and eight between
June and December this year, including a boxing centre, a gymnastics
centre and a volleyball centre.
Eleven out of these sport facilities will be handed over to the Kazan
institutions of high learning after the World Student Games.
A centre for training reserves for Russia's national teams and an
Institute of Fundamental Sport Research will be set up in the Village.
Vladimir Putin will hold a meeting on the construction of sport
facilities and transport infrastructure for the 2013 World University
Games. The first vice-premier Igor Shuvalov, Transport Minister Igor
Levitin, Vitaly Mutko, the minister for sport, tourism and youth policy,
Minister of Economic Development Elvira Nabiullina, Minister of Education
and Science Andrei Fursenko and President of Tatarstan Rustam Minnihanov
will attend the meeting with Putin.
On the eve of the 65th anniversary of Victory in the Great Patriotic
War Vladimir Putin will lay flowers to the Eternal flame burning at the
Memorial of Glory built to commemorate residents of Tatarstan who fought
at the front and worked in the rear.

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