On 12 February on the sidelines of the resulting collegium of regional Ministry of Industry and Trade, the Rais (Head) of Tatarstan Rustam Minnikhanov and the Head of the Mariy El Yuriy Zaytsev signed an agreement of cooperation between Governments of their republics in trade-economic, scientific-technical, cultural and other spheres.
The document envisages “preservation and expansion of bilateral relations in economic, scientific-technical, cultural and other spheres, work in strengthening inter-regional cooperation and exchange of experience and continuous informational cooperation in all spheres of social and economic activities”.