Today, a regular  session of Tatneft  Board of directors  took place in head office in   Almetievsk  under presidency of  Prime minister of Republic Tatarstan of Rustama Minnikhanov. Board of directors  considered  performance  of the company's budget  for ten months and  approved  the budget for December of current year.

Company RIM (Research In Motion) - developer of wireless hand device BlackBerry considers the possibility to create their design centre in Kazan. RT Prime Minister Rustam Minnikhanov and Vice-president of RIM company Mr Paul Lousie discussed perspectives of cooperation.

Ceremony of signing credit contract for the sum of 1,5 bln. US dollars between JSC “Tatneft” and bank syndicate headed by WestLB, Unicredit, RBS and “Gazprombank” was held today in the RT Cabinet. The document was signed by Director General of JSC “Tatneft” Shafagat Takhautdinov and Co-chairman of structural financing group of bank WestLB AG Mr Kai Henkel.

Chief of Russian Federal tax service management on Tatarstan Marat Safiullin informed at RT Cabinet briefing that for the period of 10 months 168 bln. roubles entered in budgets of all levels in Tatarstan. The sum is 33% less in comparison with last year.

Members of RT Cabinet Presidium discussed priority measures of developing innovative policy in Tatarstan. Session was held by RT Prime Minister Rustam Minnikhanov.

Republic Tatarstan and JSC “Russian venture company” (RVC) are interested in partnership in the sphere of seed financing of innovative projects. These issues have been discussed today at meeting between RT Prime Minister Rustam Minnikhanov and General Director of RVC Igor Agamirzyan. Director of RT investment venture fund Ainur Aideldinov also presented at the meeting. Igor Agamirzyan told about activity of RVC and plans of development for 2010.

Tatarstan Prime Minister Rustam Minnikhanov addressed with welcoming speech to participants of All-Russian forum on quality. It is being held in the capital of Tatarstan – Kazan (KRK “Korston”) on November 18-20 under the motto “Best experience - for better life”. The event is dedicated to World day of quality and European quality week

The issues of functioning of railway stations in territory of Republic Tatarstan were discussed today during a meeting at the RT Cabinet RT head of the RT Government of Tatarstan Rustam Minnikhanov and chief of railway stations Directorate - branch of JSC «RZD » Sergey Abramov.

Top management of Japanese companies Mitsubishi Heavy Industries and Sojitz Corporation met RT Prime Minister Rustam Minnikhanov. The meeting took place in the Rep-office building of Tatarstan in Moscow.

RT Prime Minister Rustam Minnikhanov spoke at the session of Council under RF President on developing information society. It took place in Moscow conducted by Chief of RF President Administration Sergei Evgenyevich Naryshkin.