Shuvalov to chair Kazan Universiade organizing committee meeting

KAZAN, May 23 (Itar-Tass) -- Russian First Deputy Prime Minister Igor
Shuvalov will chair a meeting of the organizing committee to arrange and
hold the XXVIIth World University Games here on Monday.
Tatarstan's President Rustam Minnikhanov will participate in the
meeting. Minister of Sports, Tourism and Youth Policy Vitaly Mutko,
Transport Minister Igor Levitin, Director General of the Sport
Broadcasting autonomous non-profit organization Vasily Kiknadze will
deliver reports at the meeting, the Tatar presidential press service told
Itar-Tass.
"High on the agenda of the meeting is the setting of the
Universiade-2013 timeline to be presented in the International Student
Sport Federation and a traffic action plan during the World University
Games," Executive Director of the Kazan-2013 Company Vladimir Leonov said.
Meanwhile, "we are planning to consider the issues of cultural events
in the run-up to the XXVIth Universiade in the Chinese city of Shenzhen,"
he noted.
The Universiade-2013 organizing committee had the previous meeting in
the Russian capital in August 2010.
Moscow hosted the World University Games for the first time in the
Soviet Union in 1973. Kazan will host the World University Games for the
second time already in Russia in July-August 2013.

.Monument to Suvorov unveiled in Italy's Lomello.

LOMELLO (Italy), May 23 (Itar-Tass) -- The Monument to a great Russian
commander Alexander Suvorov was unveiled in the Italian city of Lomello as
the sign of gratitude for the liberation of northern Italy from Napoleon.
The bust to the legendary Russian commander was placed in the yard of an
ancient castle, where Suvorov headed the headquarters of the joint troops
of Austria, Russia and Italy.
The Lomello mayor noted that Suvorov promoted the unification of
Italy. "Today we unveil the bust and a memorial plaque at this place,
where Count Suvorov deployed a camp for his soldiers in 1799 in order to
launch a military campaign and liberate the Italian city that promoted the
unification of the Italian nation in the future," Lomello Mayor Giuseppe
Piovera said.
"Even we (in Russia) do not know much about this military campaign
under the command of Suvorov and it is not common practice in Europe now
to speak about Russia in the positive vein, moreover, to say that the army
under the command of Suvorov contributed to Italy's independence," said
the head of the Russian delegation Vladimir Yakunin, who also heads the
Trusteeship Council of the Foundation of Andrew the First Called and the
Center of Russian National Glory. He also noted the importance of Suvorov'
s military campaign in Italy for the protection of the Christian faith and
the Holy See. "Even the Holy See remained unaffected thanks to this
military campaign," Yakunin recalled. He expressed confidence that the
current commemoration action "contributes to the keeping of the historical
truth of our two nations."
The memorial plaque placed on the castle wall reads in Russian and
Italian, "In May 1799 Field-Marshal-General Alexander Suvorov, who is a
great Russian commander, who liberated Lombardia and Piedmont and
dispelled the myth about an Napoleon Bonaparte's unconquered army, dropped
at the Castle of Lomello."
An exhibition of archive files, which tell about Suvorov's stay in
Lomello, opened at the local museum. A historian and a Lomello official in
charge of culture Massimo Granata said that his father had found authentic
documents, which told about Suvorov's stay in this city in May 1799 and
that Suvorov was praying at the local church before the combat mission.
The musicians from the Moscow Suvorov Academy mounted a parade on the
central square of the Italian town.
Then Vladimir Yakunin the Lomello mayor gave a symbolic start to a
youth cycle race, which will run along the march route of Suvorov's army
in northern Italy and will end in Milan on May 26.