On 21 February in the Kazan Kremlin the Rais (Head) of Tatarstan Rustam Minnikhanov had a meeting with the First Vice-President of Zimbabwe Constantino Chiwenga, who arrived to Russia by the invitation from the administration of the country to take part in the events of the Games of the Future.

On 21 February in the Kazan Kremlin the Rais (Head) of Tatarstan Rustam Minnikhanov had a meeting with the Minister of Education of the UAE, Ahmad Belhoul Al Falasi, who is also the Chairman of the UAE General Authority of Sports, who arrived to Kazan to take part in the events of the Games of the Future.

On 20 February the President of Kyrgyzstan Sadyr Japarov arrived to Kazan, where at the Kazan International Airport he was welcomed by the Rais (Head) of Tatarstan Rustam Minnikhanov and other officials.

On 20 February at a briefing in the Tatarstan Cabinet of Ministers, the regional Minister of Healthcare Marsel Minullin informed that the regional project of primary healthcare development, which is a part of the national Healthcare Project, will be continued.

“The budget of 2023 was about 448m rubles, including practically 30m from the federal  and 419m from the regional budgets,” he said and emphasized that all tasks set up for 2023 were fulfilled.

On 20 February, speaking at a plenary session of “Leadership and sustainability of Russian Energetics “of the Forum of National Achievements in Moscow, the Rais (Head) of Tatarstan Rustam Minnikhanov informed: ”Our  republic is an oil-producing region of Russia with more than 35m tonnes of oil produced a year. We have been producing oil since 1943 with the first well bored during the WWII, and since then we have produced more than 3.5bn tonnes of oil.”

The Russian Government has confirmed introduction of a regulatory sandbox in the sphere of digital innovations of operating drones in Innopolis, the corresponding decree on which is published on the government site.

Russian President Vladimir Putin supported the extension of the project on creating advanced engineering schools until 2030, Russian Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Chernyshenko said. The total amount of co-financing until 2026 will be about 60 billion roubles. Another 20 more such schools have been selected, which will start operating in the new academic year. Thus, the entire system of advanced engineering schools will cover 50 universities in 23 Russian regions.

On February 19, at their meeting in the Kazan Kremlin, the Rais (Head) of Tatarstan Rustam Minnikhanov, Chairman of the Board of Directors of FESCO Transportation Group Andrey Severilov and the Director General of the State Tretyakov Gallery Elena Pronicheva discussed the possibility of organizing an exhibition of the State Tretyakov Gallery in the Kazan Kremlin.

On 17 February at their meeting in the Government House of the republic held with participation of regional Deputy Prime Minister Leyla Fazleeva and the Minister of Culture of the republic Irada Ayupova, the Rais (Head) of Tatarstan Rustam Minnikhanov and the Chairman of the Board of the Soyuzmultfilm Studio, who is also the Director General of Gorkiy Film Studio  Yuliana Slascheva discussed further development of a multimedia center of “Soyuzmultpark” in Kazan and new spheres of cooperation of Tatarstan and the Soyuzmultfilm.

On 17 February, speaking at a meeting held by the Rais (Head) of Tatarstan Rustam Minnikhanov with participation of regional Prime Minister Aleksey Pesoshin in the Government House of the republic, the Director of the Fund “The Institute of Tatarstan Cities Development” Nailya Zinatullina reported about implementation of the regional “Our Yard” programme and informed that the work on procurement of equipment has been completed for today. She said that specifications for the total amount of 845m rubles have been passed to the general vendor “Tatleasing” for compilations of the resulting specification followed by placing orders with the producing plants and signing agreements.