On 18 November the Prime Minister of the republic Aleksey Pesoshin, the Deputy Head of the Federal Agency for Nationality Affairs Stanislav Bedkin, heads of regional ministries and directorates, cities and regions and leaders of public national and cultural and religious amalgamations took part in a meeting of the Council of the Rais of the republic on inter-ethnic and inter-confessional issues held by the Rais (Head) of Tatarstan Rustam Minnikhanov in the Kazan Kremlin and dedicated to the topic” On Improvement of mechanisms of coordination of power bodies’ activities in social and cultural adaptation of foreign citizens”.
On November 18, the Rais (Head) of Tatarstan Rustam Minnikhanov took part in the plenary session of the XVII Forum «Tatarstan Business Partners» moderated by Deputy Prime Minister of Tatarstan, the Chairman of the National Council of the Tatar World Congress Vasil Shaykhraziev held under the World Congress of the Tatars in Kazan on November 16-18 with participation of about 400 Tatar entrepreneurs from 60 regions of Russia and 14 countries of the near and far abroad (Azerbaijan, Belarus, Bulgaria, Hungary, Indonesia, Spain, Italy, Kazakhstan, China, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkey, Uzbekistan.