President of Tatarstan Rustam Minnikhanov met the senior vice-president of Singapore's Olam International Ltd Raj Vardhanam and vice president Sumantu Kumar De. The meeting was also attended by Deputy Prime Minister - Minister of Agriculture and Food of Republic of Tatarstan Marat Ahmetov and Assistant to the President on international issues Radik Gimatdinov.
On Wednesday, the government is going to submit a report to President Vladimir Putin, which will bring together the latest developments from all departments to fight the crisis. Way out of recession is planned mainly due to budgetary funds.
Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev has proposed to subsidize interest rates on loans for agriculture. He stated this at a meeting on "The sustained functioning of agriculture."
On January 16, Tatarstan Prime Minister Ildar Kkalikov took part in a session of Tatarstan Ministry of Justice on results of work in 2014 and setting tasks for 2015.
"I think that the most important task in 2015 is the implementation of the national law on provision of free legal assistance to citizens. The past year has shown that this trend is gaining momentum an effective state system of free legal assistance is being form in the republic. Events to provide free legal assistance to socially vulnerable groups, dedicated to solemn and important dates were proved to be in demand," Khalikov said.
On January 16, speaking at a meeting of the Council of Russian Pension Fund in Tatarstan, Head of Tatarstan Office Marsel Imamov said that in 2014 the number of pensioners in Tatarstan increased by 15,000 to make 1,090,000 people. He continued that the average old-age pension increased by 8.3 per cent and amounted to about 11,000 roubles, while the average pension in the republic makes 10,415 roubles.
The Ministry of Finance of the Republic of Tatarstan held meetings with the heads of financial bodies of municipal and urban districts on the execution of local budgets for 2014 and the expected performance for January 2015.
The state can no longer afford to spend as much as planned six months ago, said Finance Minister Anton Siluanov. On the sidelines of the Gaidar Forum he told RBC what costs should be reduced and why it is not enough.
The total volume of the Reserve Fund of the Russian Federation on January 1, 2015 amounted to $ 4 trillion 945.49 billion rubles, the volume of FNB - 4 trillion 388,090,000,000 rubles, according to the Finance Ministry.
In comparison with January 1, 2014 the Reserve Fund increased 1.7 times (from 2 trillion 859.72 billion rubles), NWF - 1.5 times (from 2 trillion 900.64 billion rubles).
The volume of the Reserve Fund as of December 1, 2014 amounted to $ 4 trillion 386.91 billion rubles, NWF - 3 trillion 944.12 billion rubles. Thus, in December the volume of funds increased by 558.58 billion rubles and 443.97 billion rubles, respectively.
On January 13, at a session of the Economic Council of Tatarstan Cabinet of Ministers on development of industrial sector in 2015, Tatarstan President Rustam Minnikhanov said that one of the main tasks of 2015 is to keep the volume of industrial output and do everything to help enterprises not to lose their markets.
Tatarstan Prime Minister Ildar Khalikov, heads of ministries and agencies, and industrial enterprises took part in the meeting.