On June 8, at their meeting at the Kazan Kremlin, Interim President of the Republic of Tatarstan Rustam Minnikhanov and Governor of the Oryol region Vadim Potomsky signed an Agreement on trade-economic, scientific-technical, social and cultural cooperation  between the regions.

Speaking at the meeting, the Governor said: “I have arrived to learn from Rustam Minnikhanov how to develop a region. There is much to learn. I expected it would be great here, but I have seen even more."

Rustam Minnikhanov said that the Oryol region has industrial and agricultural potential. “The steps being taken now on creation of a specialized economic zone, and other structural reforms mean that you are willing to make the region highly developed,” Minnikhanov said.

Potomsky, in his turn, said that utility and road machinery using KAMAZ chassis is produced in the region now.

“There are many potential projects we can implement together to prove that Russian producers can be as good as foreign ones. We have got everything for it,” Potomsky said.

Minnikhanov recommended the guest getting familiar with the system “Electronic Tatarstan”. He also noted that the agreement would help cooperating in different spheres.