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New projects of the Special Economic Zone “Alabuga” with the total funding of 36 billion roubles were approved at a session of Supervisory council of SEZ “Alabuga” held by Tatarstan President Rustam Minnikhanov. 

Opening the first session in 2015, Rustam Minnikhanov said that 42 residents with the claimed amount of investments of 118 billion roubles are working at Alabuga. 

The considered projects are estimated at 36.6 billion roubles. 

On February 9, at a session of State Committee on Tourism of the Republic of Tatarstan with participation of Tatarstan President Rustam Minnikhanov and Head of Federal Agency on Tourism Oleg Safonov, it was noted that the main task of tourism industry of the republic is to increase the tourist flow. 

Making report at the session, Head of State Committee on Tourism of the Republic of Tatarstan Sergey Ivanov said that the volume of rendered services in the sphere of tourism in 2014 made 10.03 billion roubles, budget revenues make 350 million roubles per year, 37, 000 people work in the industry, 2.5 million tourists visited Tatarstan in 2014 (the 5th result among Russian regions). 

February 8, 2015 the staff of the Ministry of Finance of the Republic of Tatarstan took an active part in the mass skiing competition "Ski Russia - 2015" held in all cities and districts of the republic. 

Today Istanbul will host a meeting of finance ministers and central bankers of G20. They will exchange data about the effect of the fall of oil prices on the dynamics of growth of the world economy. They will also have to work together to take stock of the implementation of previous decisions of the G20 summits.

Finance Minister Anton Siluanov considers it appropriate to extend the service life for the military, after which they are entitled to a pension.

The final board of Tatarstan Investment Development Agency was attended by the First Deputy Minister of Finance of the Republic of Tatarstan - Director of the Department of the Treasury of the Republic of Tatarstan Marat Faizrakhmanov.

The average price of Russian Urals crude in January of this year, according to preliminary data, was US $ 46.58 a barrel, the Finance Ministry Alexander Sakovichexpert said with reference to the data quoted agencies. In January 2014 the average price was at $ 106.43 a barrel. In 2014, the average price of Urals oil was $ 97.60 per barrel.