On 9 August at their meeting in the Government House of the republic, the Rais (Head) of Tatarstan Rustam Minnikhanov and the Chairman of the Board of Avtodor State Company Vyacheslav Petushenko discussed issues of construction of the high speed highway M-12 in Tatarstan.
The section of the highway passing through the republic will be 142 kilometers and after its planned launch in the end of the current year it will make it possible to travel from Kazan to Moscow in 6.5 instead of 12 hours.