OREANDA-NEWS. November 18, 2009. Administration of the President of the Russian Federation expressed gratitude to COMSTAR – United TeleSystems (OJSC COMSTAR-UTS), the leading provider of integrated telecommunication services in Russia and the CIS, for the rendered assistance in conducting TV-conference in the course of the meeting of The Organizing Committee of the All-Russian Sport Forum "Russia – Country of Sports", which took place on October 22-25, 2009 in the city of Kazan.

"By virtue of modern technologies applied by OJSC COMSTAR-UTS, operational flexibility and expertise of the Company’s employees, organizers succeeded to establish, within the short period of time, a TV-conference between Government convention hall of the Republic of Tatarstan and exhibition hall “Novy Manezh”, where the Exhibition “Sport in Art” took place, - noted in his letter Alexander Abramov, Aide to the President of the Russian Federation.

Members of the Republic of Tatarstan Government, representatives of the Administration of the President of the Russian Federation, State government bodies of the RF and sports organizations, participants of the meeting highly appreciated not only the masterpieces of fine art from the collection of the Russian Museum and sculptures of the Art Fund “Art-Line”, but also the opportunities provided by the modern technologies, which made it possible to have a virtual tour of the exhibition for Tatarstan colleagues in a real-time mode.