During a working visit last weekend, a delegation from the capital of Kuban held a number of official meetings in Krasnodar's sister city. It participated in business and cultural events dedicated to the anniversary dates of establishing the sister city relations of Karlsruhe and the cities of Halle (Germany), Timisoara (Romania) and Krasnodar.
Head of Krasnodar met with general manager of Lokomotiv Kuban Basketball Club. In the course of the meeting Head of the city and general manager of leading basketball club of the South of Russia Aleksey Savrasenko discussed the development of both professional and mass basketball in the capital of Kuban.
The night Easter services were held in all Orthodox churches and temples of Krasnodar. Along with the congregation, Governor of Kuban Veniamin Kondratiev and Head of Krasnodar Evgeny Pervyshov participated in the festive Divine Liturgy in St. Catherine Cathedral. Easter services lasted for several hours.
The session of local governments Council of the Federation Council on the subject of "The improvement of the territories of human settlements: challenges and the means to address them" was led by Chairwoman of the Upper House of Parliament Valentina Matvienko. In particular, the session covered the issues of implementing a priority federal project for the development of comfortable urban environment.