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“Tatarstan and East Kazakhstan Oblast have potential for cooperation in many areas,” the Tatarstan President Rustam Minnikhanov said at the business forum with participation of Tatarstan and East Kazakhstan businessmen.

The forum was held at the Kazan IT-park with participation of akim of the East Kazakhstan Oblast Berdybek Saparbaev, Vice-premier and Minister of industry and trade Ravil Zaripov, members of delegation of the East Kazakhstan Oblast, Tatarstan businessmen.

Before the forum Rustam Minnikhanov told Berdybek Saparbaev about the Kazan IT-park, the second IT-park in Naberezhnye Chelny, business incubator, Higher school of information systems and technologies of the Kazan Federal University, and IT lyceum.

The Tatarstan President thanked akim of the East Kazakhstan Oblast Berdybek Saparbaev for the visit.

According to Rustam Minnikhanov, many Tatarstan enterprises (KAMAZ, Tatneft, Kazan helicopter plant, Nizhnekamskneftehkim), are successfully functioning at the Kazakhstan market.

Tatarstan representation has been working in Kazakhstan since 1997. Consulate General and trade office of Kazakhstan opened this year.
Rustam Minnikhanov noted that East Kazakhstan Oblast was rich in natural resources and industrial enterprises.

He expressed hope that during the forum Tatarstan and Kazakhstan businessmen would establish new contacts and make arrangements about mutually beneficial projects.

Akim of the East Kazakhstan Oblast Berdybek Saparbaev thanked Tatarstan leadership and personally Rustam Minnikhanov for the invitation to visit republic and hearty reception in Kazan. 

“Various areas are developing in our region and we have come to get familiar with your experience. We are especially interested in development of information technologies, engineering and agriculture,” Berdybek Saparbaev said.

Vice-premier and Minister of industry and trade Ravil Zaripov presented Tatarstan’s economic potential to the Kazakhstan delegation.  He told about main industries and investment opportunities. 

The Ministry of Finance did not support the bill to ban usurious transactions. Limitation of high interest rates on loans - non-market measure, believe in the ministry. What in the project and wrote the official review of the Government and published it on its website.

Tatarstan’s PM Ildar Khalikov has met with executives of ZAO “Deloitte and Touch CIS” at the RT Government House.

Ildar Khalikov welcomed guests and told about economic situation in republic and investment potential of Tatarstan. He said that a lot of international companies had chosen Tatarstan as one of the most attractive regions for doing business. By and large, 1300 companies with participation of the foreign capital are registered in Tatarstan. 

Ildar Khalikov told about the most significant projects such as OAO TANECO, Sviyazhsk multimodal logistics center, innovative satellite city Innopolis for 155 thousand specialists working in the sphere of high technologies, cosmonautics, innovations and biotechnologies.

Representatives of ZAO “Deloitte and Touch CIS” informed that they had intentions to open the company’s office in Tatarstan. They also noted that business meetings within the framework of the visit to Tatarstan gave grounds for making a positive decision.

Large industrial companies confirmed their interest in developing cooperation with “Deloitte and Touch CIS”.

Ildar Khalikov offered specialists of the company to visit Trans-Kama zone where 80 % of republic’s economic potential are concentrated.

The Tatarstan Prime Minister Ildar Khalikov sent congratulations on the occasion of the Day of worker of the State Taxation Service of the Russian Federation.

RT President press service, Elena Britvina

RT President press service, Elena Britvina.

The property tax  to be paid by the owners of houses, cottages and garages, will be calculated on the new rules basis. The basis for such payments ministry proposes to make the cadastral value of the objects.

Tatarstan’s Chamber of Commerce and Industry has established itself as an important economic structure, the Tatarstan PM Ildar Khalikov said at an extended session of Administrative Council and Department of Tatarstan’s Chamber of Commerce and Industry dated to its 20th anniversary.  President of Russian Chamber of Commerce and Industry Sergei Katyrin, Board Chairman of Tatarstan’s Chamber of Commerce and Industry Shamil Ageev participated in the session.

Head of the Tatarstan Government congratulated people who were among originators of Tatarstan’s Chamber of Commerce and Industry.  He supposes that today authorities use all opportunities offered by Tatarstan’s Chamber of Commerce and Industry in full.

Chamber of Commerce and Industry is an efficient tool of interaction with entrepreneurs as it deals with agro-industrial complex, housing and communal services and other spheres.

The Tatarstan PM noted that the international cooperation was one more field of concern. He mentioned that close contacts had been established with foreign partners within the framework of Tatarstan-Luxembourg business forum, Tatarstan-Finland business forum and other important events.

“As for Russia’s joining the WTO and new conditions for entrepreneurs, we should try to benefit from the situation instead of seeing negative effects. We should not think that Russia’s joining the WTO will not have any impact on entrepreneurs, especially on agricultural producers. We should work over this issue and set questions before the federal government,” Ildar Khalikov said.

The PM said that he had no doubts that Tatarstan would be able to keep up the pace and even increase it.

To the point, 2151 enterprises of various types of ownership have become members of Tatarstan’s Chamber of Commerce and Industry during its working period