Cheboksary, Yaroslavl to host sports, intellectual forums in 2014
MOSCOW. Aug 6 (Interfax) - Russian President Vladimir Putin has ordered two forums, "Russia: a sport power" (international) and "Future intellectual leaders of Russia" (nationwide), to be held this year in Cheboksary and Yaroslavl, respectively.
The documents to that effect were posted on the official legal news portal on Wednesday.
Under one of them, the international sports forum will be held in Cheboksary on October 9 - 11 and preceded by a meeting of the presidential council for physical education and sports that will focus on development of the material and technical base of the sports industry in 2016-2020.
Under the second document, the organizing committee of the nationwide forum "Future intellectual leaders of Russia" in Yaroslavl in 2014 will be chaired by Russian Presidential Envoy to the Central Federal District Alexander Beglov.