Tatarstan Prime Minister Aleksey Pesoshin takes part in a meeting of the Council by the Russian Presidential Envoy in the Volga Federal District dedicated to rural demographic policy

On 26 March Tatarstan Prime Minister Aleksey Pesoshin took part in a meeting of the Council by the Russian Presidential Envoy in the Volga Federal District dedicated to rural demographic policy held by the Russian Presidential Envoy in the District Igor Komarov in Nizhniy Novgorod with participation of heads of federal ministries concerned, representatives of the Federal Assembly and heads of federal entities of the Volga Federal District. The participants of the meeting discussed such topics as the demographic situation, implementation of federal programmes and the best regional practices, and the results of the meeting will be used for preparing comprehensive solutions of such tasks set by Russian President Vladimir Putin as preservation of the population, strengthening health, raising prosperity of people and supporting families.

The key tool in this work is the state programme “Comprehensive Development of Rural Territories” to be implemented till 2030.

It is important to know that the Volga Federal District is the leader in the number of rural population in Russia with 7.8m people or 21.5 per cent of all rural population of the country residing here.

 The Chief Federal Inspector for Tatarstan Viktor Demidov also took part in the meeting.