NEWS
On April 27, Tatarstan President Rustam Minnikhanov held a meeting of the Board of Trustees of the Investment and Venture Fund of the Republic of Tatarstan, which discussed such issues as the development of the main areas of the regional Strategy-2030 in the innovation sphere, support of scientific activities at universities, and also reviewed the implementation of the Russian Venture Company's Development Strategy until 2020.
On April 26, meetings were held with the heads of financial bodies of municipal districts and city districts at the Ministry of Finance of the Republic of Tatarstan. It was devoted to the issues of execution of local budgets for January-March of 2017.
On April 26, at the Cabinet of Ministers of the republic, Tatarstan President Rustam Minnikhanov held a regional video-conference on results of the implementation of consolidated budget of the republic in the first quarter of 2017 and tasks for 2017.
On April 25, during their working trip to Tatarstan, Russia's Minister for Open Government Affairs Mikhail Abyzov and Head of the Federal Service for Labour and Employment Vsevolod Vukolov visited the Alabuga Special Economic Zone (Yelabuga municipal region).
It is necessary to provide 5 trillion rubles of investment per year for achieving the growth of the Russian economy at 3% of GDP. This was announced by Minister of Economic Development of the Russian Federation Maxim Oreshkin at the final Collegium of the Ministry.
The main condition for the growth of the Russian economy is the development of non-primary exports, which must be doubled by 2024-2025. This was announced by the Former Minister of Finance, the head of the Foundation Council of the Center for strategic research (CSR) Alexei Kudrin.
Ministry of Finance intends to form the Russian Federation budget for 2018-2020 on the basis of new budget rules. Minister of Finance Anton Siluanov has appealed to Prime Minister of the Russian Federation Dmitry Medvedev and has asked the government to support this initiative.
On April 19, Tatarstan President Rustam Minnikhanov arrived on a two-day working visit in the Islamic Republic of Iran. Today, in Teheran, Minnikhanov will take part in a business forum, which will consider priority ways of development of Tatarstan-Iran cooperation in the trade and economic sphere.
Russian President Vladimir Putin invited Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev to think about additional measures to support investment in the economy, taking into account the factor of strengthening the ruble.
Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev signed decrees about transferring responsibility for the information system of state purchases to the Federal Treasury and transferring the authority to develop a policy of state purchases to Ministry of Finance. The head of the Cabinet of Ministers said about this at a meeting with vice premiers.