Rustam Minnikhanov holds meeting with members of the Federation Council and the State Duma from Tatarstan

On December 25, at the Government House of the republic, Tatarstan President Rustam Minnikhanov held a meeting with members of the Federation Council and the State Duma from Tatarstan.

Chairman of the local State Council Farid Mukhametshin, Chief of Staff of Tatarstan President’s Administration Asgat Safarov and representatives of regional ministries took part in the meeting.

Minnikhanov noted that the priority tasks of the people's deputies have remained unchanged. They include focused legislative activities to promote Tatarstan's interests and maximum involvement of the republic in federal targeted and state programmes.

“Such meetings have become traditional. They allow us to sum up the results of work of the members of the State Duma from Tatarstan in the outgoing year and set plans for the next year,” Mukhametshin added in his turn.

Making a keynote report at the meeting, Minister of Economy of the republic Artem Zdunov said that as compared to the previous year the total amount of declared and then approved funds flown in the republic from all sources increased by 18 per cent to make 86 billion roubles.

According to Zdunov, despite the current trend of reducing federal budget spending, the positive dynamics of attracting federal funds has been maintained. As for the programme part of the federal budget, the approved limit made 76.6 billion rubles. The republic participates in 26 state programmes of the Russian Federation and 17 federal target programmes.