On 5 April, speaking at a meeting held in the Government House of the republic with all municipalities taking part in it via videoconference, the Rais (Head) of Tatarstan Rustam Minnikhanov informed that due to weather conditions agricultural enterprises have begun the spring field work earlier than usual.

He reminded that farmers are fertilizing winter crops which grow on 482 thousand hectares and perennial grass covering 368 thousand hectares.

On 5 April, speaking at a meeting held by the Rais (Head) of Tatarstan Rustam Minnikhanov in the Government House of the republic with all municipalities taking part in it via videoconference, the Minister of Construction, Architecture and Housing Utilities Sector of the republic Marat Ayzatullin reported about work progress in housing construction, programmes of ensuring accommodation to certain groups of citizens and other events.

Having told about cases of occupational injuries and checks of construction sites carried out in the first three months of the current year, Marat Ayzatullin said that 1m 473 thousand square meters of housing, including commercial, multi-apartment, social mortgage and individual houses,  have been already commissioned in the republic which makes 45 per cent of the planned.

On 4 April a delegation from Tatarstan headed by the Rais (Head) of the republic Rustam Minnikhanov, who came on a working grip to Tajikistan, visited enterprises in the Sughd region of the country.

Thus the delegation paid a visit to the carpet plant The Kayrakkum Carpets, an enterprise manufacturing heating equipment and Titan-8888 radiators and the Sughdmetall pipe plant.

On 3 April the Rais (Head) of Tatarstan Rustam Minnikhanov , who came on a working trip to Tajikistan, visited historical heritage sites in Khujant in the Sughd region.
First he went on a tour round the Arbob Palace of Culture and the cultural-historical complex of the Khujant fortress which can become points of attraction for Russian tourists. 
As currently there are direct flights from Kazan to Khujant and to Dushanbe, Rustam Minnikhanov gave an errand to work with tourist companies to get acquainted with tourist routs and increasing tourist flows both from Tatarstan to Tajikistan and vice versa. 

 

On 3 April  the Rais (Head) of Tatarstan Rustam Minnikhanov , who came on a working trip to Tajikistan (1-3 April 2025) and the Chairman of the Sughd region Rajabboy Akhmadzoda  took part in a business forum and a round table “Tatarstan-Tajikistan” dedicated to interaction of business circles of the republics  
In his welcoming speech Rustam Minnikhanov informed that earlier at his meeting with the President of Tajikistan Emomali Rakhmon  they agreed to organize this event and added that Emomali Rakhmon himself defined that the Sughd region is the most suitable one for interaction and business bonds. 

 

On 3 April in the afternoon, upon his arrival to Khujand , the Rais (Head) of Tatarstan Rustam Minnikhanov , who came on a working trip to Tajikistan (1-3 April 2025), was welcomed by the Deputy Chairman of the Sughd region Anvar Yakubi and the General Consul of Russia in Khujand Sergey Lankin.

On 3 April, speaking at his meeting with President of Tajikistan Emomali Rakhmon  and the Prime Minister of the republic Kokhir Rasulzoda in Dushanbe, the Rais (Head) of Tatarstan Rustam Minnikhanov said that Tatarstan attaches great attention to the development of cooperation with Tajikistan within the framework of traditionally friendly Russia-Tajikistan relations and thanked Emomali Rakhmon for their meeting on the sideline of the BRICS Summit in Kazan, where they agreed about a reciprocal visit.

On 2 April late at night the Rais (Head) of Tatarstan Rustam Minnikhanov arrived to Dushanbe – the capital of Tajikistan, where he plans to meet the leadership of the country, to have negotiations with the Administration of the Sughd region and to take part in the Tajikistan-Tatarstan business forum in Khujand.

A delegation of business circles of the republic arrived to Dushanbe on 1 April and already had negotiations in the Ministry of New Technologies and Industry of Tajikistan and had a meeting in the Russian Trade Representative Office where they were told about possible spheres of cooperation.

On 2 April the Rais (Head) of Tatarstan Rustam Minnikhanov and Russian Minister of Energy Sergey Tsivilev took part in a business breakfast organized by the Novikom Bank on the sidelines of the Tatarstan Energy Forum Energoporm at the Kazan Expo Exhibition Center.

Welcoming participants of the meeting, the Chairman of the Board of the Novikom Bank Elena Georgieva said that the bank has been working with Tatarstan enterprises for more than 30 years. In December 2023 it signed a partnership agreement with the Government of the republic. “I sincerely wish colleagues to find necessary business bonds and new interesting projects which will be for the benefit of the Russian industry and the fuel and energy complex,” she said. 

On 2 April the Rais (Head) of Tatarstan Rustam Minnikhanov, Russian Minister of Energetics Sergey Tsivilev and the Minister of Energy and Water Resources of Tajikistan Daler Juma took part in a ceremony of opening Tatarstan Energy Forum Energoprom at the Kazan Expo Exhibition Center.