On 16 December upon his arrival to the International Airport after Heydar Aliyev in Baku, the Rais (Head) of Tatarstan Rustam Minnikhanov, who came on a working trip by an invitation from Azerbaijan administration, was welcomed by the Minister of Economics of Azerbaijan Mikayil Chingiz oghlu Jabbarov and the Russian Plenipotentiary Ambassador to the country Mikhail Evdokimov
On 16 December, speaking at a meeting held by the Rais (Head) of Tatarstan Rustam Minnikhanov in the Government House of the republic, the Head of the Volga-Vyatsk Directorate of the Avtodor Ildar Mingazov reported that the construction of four overhead pedestrian crossings built on the M-7 Volga highway in Tatarstan has been completed.
On 14 December the Rais (Head) of Tatarstan Rustam Minnikhanov, the Chairman of Judicial Collegium for Economic Disputes of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation Yuri Ivanenko, the Chairman of the Volga federal region Arbitration Court Denis Plotnikov, the Chief Federal Inspector for Tatarstan Viktor Demidov and other officials took part in a ceremony of introducing the new Chairman of Tatarstan Arbitration Court Vitaliy Guilmutdinov to its staff.
On 16 December at their meeting in the Government House of the republic, the Rais (Head) of Tatarstan Rustam Minnikhanov and the Chairman of Judicial Collegium for Economic Disputes of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation Yuri Ivanenko, who came to Kazan to introduce the new Chairman of Tatarstan Arbitration Court to its staff, discussed issues of interaction and the current financial and economic situation in the region.