On March 11, Tatarstan President Rustam Minnikhanov and Prime Minister Ildar Khalikov met Head of the Experts Department of McKinsey company Andrew Grant in Kazan.
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On March 10, at their meeting in Tabriz Tatarstan President Rustam Minnikhanov, who is on a working visit to the Islamic Republic of Iran, and governor of East Azerbaijan Province Esmaeil Jabbarzade discussed cooperation between the two republics in such fields as information technology, oil production and refining, field development, education, tourism.
On March 9, at his meeting with Bijan Namdar Zangeneh, Iranian Oil Minister, Tatarstan President Rustam Minnikhanov suggested holding a session of Russian-Iranian commission on trade and economic cooperation in Kazan. Rustam Minnikhanov thanked Bijan Namdar Zangeneh for the meeting and noted that he appreciates an opportunity to develop cooperation with Iran within the framework of cooperation between Russia and Iran.
The volume of state guarantees in the budget for 2015 to support enterprises increased by 200 billion rubles. This was announced by Finance Minister Anton Siluanov at a government meeting.
A key factor in reducing the budget revenues of the Russian Federation - a drop of oil revenues by 2 trillion rubles. This was announced by Finance Minister Anton Siluanov, speaking at a government meeting.
Current oil prices are above than the planned ones for the budget of 2015, but the downside risks to prices remain, said Finance Minister Anton Siluanov at a government meeting in Moscow on Thursday.
Finance Ministry intends, in the case of changes in oil prices, direct to generate additional income for substitution of the Reserve Fund, told the Finance Minister Anton Siluanov.
Revenues of the federal budget in January-February 2015 decreased with the "one-off factors," 10 percent. This was announced by Finance Minister Anton Siluanov, speaking at a government meeting.
Financial "safety air bag" of the Russian Federation for the 2015 may be reduced to 2 trillion rubles. We must prepare measures for balancing the budget of the Russian Federation in 2016-2017 as soon as possible, said Finance Minister Anton Siluanov.