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Barnama
15-05-2025
- Business
- Barnama
PM Anwar Says Tatarstan Has Enormous Potential, Ready To Develop Ties With It
BUSINESS KAZAN, May 15 (Bernama) -- Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim said the Republic of Tatarstan has enormous potential and that Malaysia is ready to discuss trade and economic issues with it, such as Islamic banking and the halal industry in Kazan, the capital of the republic. As of 2022, the population of Tatarstan stood at 3.9 million people, comprising more than 70 ethnic groups, with more than 50 per cent of the population being Muslim. The prime minister said Malaysia is ready to work and develop ties with the republic, which is part of the Russian Federation. "I believe that Tatarstan has enormous potential, (there is) a large number of proposals. We are ready to work and develop our ties," Anwar said during a meeting with the Rais (Head) of Tatarstan Rustam Minnikhanov. The meeting was held in the Kazan Kremlin and was attended by the Prime Minister of Tatarstan Alexey Pesoshin, the Deputy Minister of Energy of the Russian Federation Roman Marshavin, representatives of ministries and departments and heads of major machine-building enterprises. Anwar led a delegation that comprises Minister of Agriculture and Food Security Datuk Seri Mohamad Sabu; Minister of Science, Technology and Innovation Chang Li Kang; Minister of Higher Education Datuk Seri Dr Zambry Abdul Kadir; and Minister of Plantation and Commodities Datuk Seri Johari Abdul Ghani as well as Malaysia's Ambassador to Russia Datuk Cheong Loon Lai. Meanwhile, Rustam, in a media statement, said that Anwar's visit to Kazan was a significant event. "We are very glad to see you. Your visit encourages us to work even more actively. Our contacts should be more intensive," he said, thanking Anwar for visiting Tatarstan and his participation in the Kazan Forum 2025. "It is gratifying that a solid delegation of business circles is participating in the forum with you. The Kazan Forum has been held with federal status for three years now and is the main platform for establishing cooperation between Russia and the countries of the Muslim world. 'It is also a great honour for us that you participate in the meeting of the strategic vision group of the Russia-Islamic World (of the forum)", said Rustam.
National Geographic
25-02-2025
- Science
- National Geographic
A daughter's epic quest to find one of the rarest butterflies—named after her father
He dedicated his life to his work and died in his mid-50s when I was turning 14. I hardly knew my father. My memories of him are disparate snippets, a collection of faded photographs and conflicting accounts. Over the past three decades as a journalist and photographer, I became fixated on reconstructing the story of his life. The only photograph that I have of my father and me, this Polaroid was taken on the balcony of our home in Baku, Azerbaijan, in 1987 when I was 10. Four years later, he died of cancer at 56. Courtesy Effendi Family Archive Several years ago, I came across his Wikipedia page and clicked on a link that led me to a picture of a modestly colored butterfly. The description underneath read 'Satyrus effendi, species of the Nymphalidae family.' At the bottom of the page, I learned that Yuri Nekrutenko, a lepidopterist from Ukraine, discovered a new butterfly species in the Caucasus in 1989 and named it in honor of Rustam, his close friend and colleague. Later I found out that Yuri had joked with my father at the time: Since you've only had daughters, your surname will live on with the butterfly. Let's hope it does not go extinct. But his namesake is perhaps one of the rarest butterflies in the world. Only a single generation hatches between mid-July and mid-August, flying in its mountainous habitat 10,000 feet above sea level. To withstand harsh conditions, Satyrus effendi has furlike scales on its wings and a dark brown color that may keep it warm. Its most distinguishable physical trait is two black markings, like eyes with white pupils, each glaring from the corner of the wings. For two weeks, the insect flutters over the Zngzur ridge, which spans a hundred miles across the border between Azerbaijan and Armenia, two countries in the grips of a decades-long conflict. As one of the few lepidopterists in Soviet Azerbaijan, my father captured numerous species, each one stored at the Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences' Institute of Zoology in Baku, where he worked for more than three decades. Many years have passed since, and much of his collection is turning to dust. I searched for mentions of Satyrus effendi in scientific works he authored, in his field journals, and among the remaining specimens in his collection, but found no trace of it. I concluded it was one of the only endemic species he hadn't caught. I wondered if I could.
