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The Ministry of Finance does not see opportunities for execution of President Vladimir Putin's decree of May 7, 2012 and the implementation of infrastructure projects without budgetary maneuver, said Finance Minister Anton Siluanov today at a meeting of the Russian government.
"Without a budget maneuver, without optimization, reducing our spending commitments already taken is just not possible to meet these new challenges ," - the head of the Ministry of Finance said.

On July 4 at their meeting in Kazan Tatarstan President Rustam Minnikhanov and RED Aircraft GmbH Director General Vladimir Raikhlin discussed development of aircraft building, and production of aircraft diesel engines RED Aircraft. 

RED Aircraft research production centre was founded in Germany in 1995 by a Russian engineer Vladimir Raikhlin. The company specializes in development of high-technology aircraft engines and renders the whole range of services, from design to testing and production. 

Tatarstan Minister of Industry and Trade Ravil Zaripov, Aide to Tatarstan President Airat Khairullin, Minister of Transport and Roads Lenar Safin and OOO “MVEN” Director General Viktor Ermolenko took part in the meeting. 

The State Duma plenary session on Wednesday supported an amendment to the Tax Code of the Russian Federation on the introduction of the transitional provisions for the start of depreciation of objects, the rights to which are subject to state registration. Amendment was made to the second reading the draft law on VAT exemption for cultural institutions. The document was adopted in the second reading.

On July 3 Russian Prime Minister Dimtry Medvedev held a government meeting on developing Russia’s chemical and petrochemical sector.

The meeting took place at JSC Polief production facilities in Blagoveshensk (Bashkortostan) and was attended by Tatarstan President Rustam Minnikhanov, Russian Deputy Prime Minister Arkady Dvorkovich, Russian Minister of Energy Alexander Novak, and Plenipotentiary Representative of the Russian Federation in Volga Federal District Mikhail Babich, Bashkortostan President Rustem Khamitov, and heads of large oil and gas and petrochemical companies. 

Department of the Treasury of the Ministry of Finance of the Republic of Tatarstan held a meeting on the anti-corruption policy in the Ministry of Finance of the Republic of Tatarstan and the Treasury Department of the Ministry of Finance of the Republic of Tatarstan. Chairman of the Commission, First Deputy Minister of Finance of the Republic of Tatarstan - the director of the Treasury Department of the Ministry of Finance of the Republic of Tatarstan Marat Faizrakhmanov reported on the implementation of anti-corruption program of the Ministry of Finance of the Republic of Tatarstan for 2012-2014. for the I half of 2013 at the meeting.

On July 2 at a briefing on support of Tatarstan small and medium-size business, Minister of Economy Midkhat Shagiakhmetov said that 1,2 bln rubles were allocated to support Tatarstan small and medium-size business in 2013. 

“The share of small and medium-size business in Tatarstan GRP makes 25 per cent. We are worried about fall in number of self-employed entrepreneurs in the republic. Therefore, we organise meetings with businessmen to discuss our ideas and problems they face, and decide on new ways of interaction between entrepreneurship and government,” Midkhat Shagiakhmetov continued. 

Thus, certain problems have been pointed out, in particular, shortage of financial resources and tariffs raising. About 6 per cent of Tatarstan entrepreneurs tell about lack of qualified staff. 

On July 2 at a briefing on illegal sales of alcohol products, Head of State Inspection on control of production, turnover, and quality of ethanol, alcohol products and protection of customer’s rights Igor Marchenko informed that the volume of legal sales of alcohol products in Tatarstan had decreased. 

Among main reasons of this situation Igor Marchenko pointed out a considerable rise in minimum prices for vodka – from 125 to 170 rubles for 0,5 litres. However, the increase in prices did not cause less alcohol consumption. 

Igor Marchenko also spoke about the import of smuggled products from Kazakhstan. 

Ministry of Finance of RT held a video conference, where issues of payment of the municipalities of insurance premiums to the Pension Fund of the Russian Federation, additional sources for increasing the salaries of public sector employees and  posting information on the institutions of the Russian Federation on the official website of the state and municipal institutions were discussed.

Ministry of Finance of the Republic of Tatarstan officials  visited the Bulgarian State Historical-Architectural Museum-Reserve on June 29

Today, representatives of the Ministry of Finance of the Republic of Tatarstan (Deputy Finance Minister Alexei Shishkin, head of the budget department Gela Gerasimova, head of fiscal policy department Nail Garifullin) participated in a joint meeting of the Committee of the State Council on Budget, Taxes and Finance Committee and the Committee of the State Council on Social policy.