Speaking at an expanded meeting of the Kazan Federal University Scientific Council held with participation of Russian Minister of Science and Higher Education Valeriy Falkov, Tatarstan President Rustam Minnikhanov, who is the chairman of the University Supervisory Committee, said that the university trains more than 48 thousand students, 11 thousand of them coming from outside the Russian Federation. A new rector of the University Lenar Safin was introduced to the participants of the meeting and Minnikhanov expressed his gratitude to the Russian Government for supporting Safin’s candidacy.

On 25 August at his meeting at the Russian Foreign Ministry with Tatarstan President Rustam Minnikhanov, who is on a working trip to Moscow, Foreign Minister of Russia Sergey Lavrov handed in Rustam Minnikhanov a departmental award – a Foreign Ministry badge “For contribution into the international cooperation”  which is given for active joint work with the Russian Ministry in development of bilateral cooperation, promotion of Russian language and culture, implementation of projects supporting compatriots and other merits.

On 25 August Tatarstan President Rustam Minnikhanov came on a working trip to Moscow to take part in traditional Days of Tatarstan Culture held in Moscow from 21 to 25 August.

The Days will be concluded by a Gala-concert of Tatarstan masters of Arts in the Moscow International House of Music.

On 24 August Tatarstan President Rustam Minnikhanov and Russian Deputy Defense Minister Timur Ivanov visited the Kazan Military Hospital, the cornerstone of which was laid with the participation of the Russian Defense Minister Sergey Shoygu on 21 August of 2021.

They assessed readiness of the building for 150 beds to be commissioned and were shown the set of facilities of the hospital including diagnostics block with 120 wards, a day patient department, clinical-diagnostic lab with microbiology group and the admission, dental, radiation, diagnostics and physiological departments.

On 24 August, speaking at a plenary session of the Community Forum held on 24 and 25 August at the Kazan Expo Exhibition Center, Tatarstan President Rustam Minnikhanov said that the Community Forum is a reputable platform for a dialogue between the society, business and the power and the place to look for ideas and develop important solutions. 

On its regular meeting held by Tatarstan President Rustam Minnikhanov with participation of the Aid to the President Olesya Baltusova, Mayor of Kazan Ilsur Metshin and representatives of the regional Committee on Cultural Heritage Protection, the interdepartmental commission in city-building issues in historical settlements discussed 18 construction sites and reconstruction in the historical settlement in Kazan. The commission also considered the draft document on boundaries of the territory, subject of protection and requirements to city-building regulations of the regional historical settlement of Bilyarsk.

Opening a yearly ceremonial reception in the Kazan Kremlin dedicated to the best families of Tatarstan and organized on behalf of President of the republic Rustam Minnikhanov and his wife Gulsina on 24 August on the eve of the Day of the Republic, Tatarstan President reminded that today there are 48 families of teachers, doctors and farmers, that is representatives of various branches of economy.

On 24 August at their meeting in the Government House of the republic, Tatarstan President Ristam Minnikhanov and Igor Nasenkov - Director General of the AO Technodinamika, which is the leading Russian developer and manufacturer of aircraft equipment, including chassis, fuel systems and APUs, discussed issues of further modernization of the Kazan Aircraft Plant and rate of its technical re-equipment as well as interaction in a number of promising projects.

On August 23, speaking at a briefing in the Cabinet of Ministers of Tatarstan, the curator of programmes for the development of the urban environment in the republic Nailya Zinnatullina said that for five years Tatarstan won over 2.5 billion roubles for the development of public spaces by participating in the All-Russian competition of small cities and historical settlements. 

On August 23, in Zainsk, Tatarstan Prime Minister Aleksey Pesoshin together with Minister of Internal Affairs in Tatarstan, Police Lieutenant General Artem Khokhorin, the Acting Deputy Head of the Department of Logistics and Medical Support of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs, Colonel of the Internal Service Dmitry Dolmatov, Head of the Zainsk region Razif Karimov, as well as heads of law enforcement agencies of the region took part in a solemn ceremony of opening the department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation in the Zainsk region after reconstruction.