On September 8, during his working visit to Vietnam, Tatarstan President Rustam Minnikhanov had a meeting with representatives of Ministry of Industry and Trade of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam to discuss prospects for mutually beneficial cooperation in the field of industry, increase of trade turnover between Vietnam and Tatarstan as Russia’s region.

On September 8, opening a meeting with the delegation of the Islamic Republic of Iran led by Deputy Governor of Iran’s East Azerbaijan Province Mr. Hüseyin Behbudi, Tatarstan Prime Minister Ildar Khalikov welcomed the guests and expressed his hope that the meeting will give a new impetus to successful and long-term cooperation between the two republics.

On September 7, speaking at a ceremony of reopening of the Kazan Kachalov Academic Russian Drama Theater after its reconstruction,Tatarstan President Rustam Minnikhanov said that Tatarstan should have a respectable Russian theater to go and invite guests to.

Dear oil and gas industry workers! Dear veterans of the industry! On behalf of Tatarstan Government I congratulate you on your professional holiday – the Day of oil and gas industry workers! Oil and gas production is a difficult, responsible work of thousands of people. We can hardly imagine any sphere of our life without products of the industry. Therefore, we call oil and gas industry a national heritage of our country, the basis of rapid development and guarantor of energy safety.

On September 6, in Kazan, Tatarstan President Rustam Minnikhanov accompanied by Chief of Staff of the Administrative Office of Tatarstan President Asgat Safarov, Mayor of Kazan Ilsur Metshin, Tatarstan Minister of Construction, Architecture, and Housing and Utilities Services Irek Faizullin visited the Zarnitsa factory and school No. 70 located in Kirovsky district of the city.