On 21 May in his welcoming speech to the participants of a meeting of the Interregional Yangtze-Volga Cooperation Council held by the Russian Presidential Envoy in the Volga region Igor Komarov and the Deputy Premier of the State Council of the People's Republic of China Zhang Guoqing  with participation of the Deputy Chairman of the Russian Government Marat Khusnullin at the Kazan City Hall,  the Rais (Head) of Tatarstan Rustam Minnikhanov stated that for more than its ten year history such format has proved itself to be one of the most efficient mechanisms for the interregional interaction of Russia and China.

On 21 May the Rais (Head) of Tatarstan Rustam Minnikhanov took part in a narrow format meeting of heads of delegations to the events of the V meeting of the Interregional Yangtze-Volga Cooperation Council held in the Kazan City Hall.

Opening the meeting, the Russian Presidential Envoy in the Volga region Igor Komarov cordially welcomed the Deputy Premier of the State Council of the People's Republic of China Zhang Guoqing, who is the Chairman of the Chinese part of the Yangtze-Volga Cooperation Council and other members of delegations.

On 21 May in his address to residents and guests of the republic dedicated to the Day of the Official Adoption of Islam by the Volga Bulgaria, the Rais (Head) of Tatarstan Rustam Minnikhanov congratulated everyone with this event, “which is a landmark in history of Tatarstan and the Muslim Ummah of out multinational state. “

On 20 May upon his arrival to the Kazan International Airport, the Deputy Premier of the State Council of the People's Republic of China Zhang Guoqing was welcomed by the Rais (Head) of Tatarstan Rustam Minnikhanov and the Russian Presidential Envoy in the Volga region Igor Komarov.

Tomorrow on 21 May the Deputy Premier of the State Council of China Zhang Guoqing will take part in the fifth meeting of the Interregional Yangtze-Volga Cooperation Council.

On 20 May at their meeting in Naberezhnyye Chelny the Rais (Head) of Tatarstan Rustam Minnikhanov and the Governor of Ulyanovsk region Aleksey Russkikh, who came to the republic to take part in a meeting of the Interregional Yangtze-Volga Cooperation Council in Kazan, discussed issues of interregional cooperation including joint work in industrial interaction between machine-building plants of the republic and the region.

On 20 May at a briefing in the Cabinet of Ministers of Tatarstan its participants summarized the results of the International Economic Forum “Russia-the Islamic World: KazanForum-2025” held in Kazan on 13-18 May.

Speaking to journalists, the Chief of Staff of the Office of the Cabinet of Ministers of the republic Shamil Gafarov said: “There were 8 500 participants including 500 representatives of Mass Media. These numbers show the growth of participants number by 5 per cent compared to 25% last year.  We also saw the growth of international participants, signed agreements and Ministers of foreign countries who visited Russia and Tatarstan during these days.”

On 19 May in Moscow the Rais (Head) of Tatarstan Rustam Minnikhanov took part in a meeting of the Governmental Commission for the development of small and average size entrepreneurship (SMEs) held by the Chairman of the Russian Government Mikhail Mihsustin, who in his opening remarks reminded that currently Russia attaches the most important attention to the development of the SMEs.

On 19 May at their meeting in Moscow, the Rais (Head) of Tatarstan Rustam Minnikhanov, who came on a working trip to the Russian capital, and the Chairman of the Gazprombank Board of Directors Andrey Akimov discussed issues of further interaction of the republic and the bank and implementation of a number of projects with participation of the bank in the region.

On 17 May the Rais (Head) of Tatarstan Rustam Minnikhanov, the Minister of Sports of the republic Vladimir Leonov, the Chairman of the Football Federation of Tatarstan Aleksandr Gusev, the Head of the Directorate of the Federal Tax Service for the republic Marat Safiullin and other officials took part in a ceremony of closing the International children’s football tournament “The Orient Cup”   held with participation of 10 teams from eight countries within the programme of the XVI International Economic Forum “Russia-the Islamic World: KazanForum”   at the Children’s recreation camp “Molodaya Gvardia”.  

On 17 May the Rais (Head) of Tatarstan Rustam Minnikhanov , the Deputy Prime Minister of the republic Vasil Shaykhraziev, who is also the Chairman of the National Council of the World Tatar Congress, the Chairman of the Spiritual Board of Muslims of the republic Kamil Samigullin, the Chairman of the Spiritual Board of Muslims of Russia Ravil Gaynutdin , the Chairman of the  Central Spiritual Board of Muslims of Russia Talgat Tadjutdin and more than  1000 religious leaders from 78 entities of Russia and Belarus took part in the XV All-Russia Forum of Tatar Religious Leaders held at the International Exhibition Center Kazan Expo.