On 13 July in the Government house of the republic Tatarstan President Rustam Minnikhanov held a meeting of the organizing committee in preparing events in the framework of the programme “Kazan-the OIC Youth Capital”, where he said that the programme included a number of international events, and some of them – such as the official inauguration of Kazan as the OIC Youth Capital and the Holy Quran reciters competition were already held successfully. 

On 12 July at his meeting with the Chairman of the State Administration Council of Myanmar Min Aung Hlaing, who is also the Prime Minister and Commander-in-Chief of Defense Services of the country and who came on a private visit to Kazan, Tatarstan President Rustam Minnikhanov said: “ I am glad to welcome you in Tatarstan once again. I remember with pleasure my visit to Myanmar in April this year. It was very interesting to come to your wonderful country, to see how it is developing and to feel spirit and culture of people of Myanmar”. 

On 12 July, speaking at the opening ceremony of the VIII Regional Open Field Skills Competition of Young Geologists held in Almetyevsk, Tatarstan President Rustam Minnikhanov said:” It is a great honor for us to be present at the opening ceremony of competition of young geologists. Tatarstan has a well-developed oil industry and the most important thing in this industry is people, specialists in their field. It is necessary to train geologists starting from school and the work you are doing now is the future of the oil industry of our country”. 

On 12 July Tatarstan President Rustam Minnikhanov, who came on a working trip to Almetyevsk, and Director General of the Tatneft Oil Company Nail Maganov visited a laboratory and research center of the Higher Oil School campus which covers 16 thousand square meters.

On 12 July at his meeting with participants of the III International Oil and Gas Youth Forum, Tatarstan President Rustam Minnikhanov answered a number of their questions.

 Thus he said that to become a good manager you need to have good teachers and he learned a lot, working with the First President Mintimer Shaimiev.

On 12 July, speaking at a panel discussion of the Tatarstan Oil Summit in Almetyevsk, Tatarstan President Rustam Minnikhanov said that under such difficult conditions it is especially important to preserve position of Russia in the world energy sector. 

This year one of the main topics for professional discussion is the sustainable development of the oil and gas sphere in the context of diversification and technological leadership and welcoming participants of the summit, Rustam Minnikhanov marked that Russian Federation is the largest world power market player. “Of course, not everyone likes the Russia’s serious existence in the world power industry and there are efforts to replace us, in particular by closing the access to the market and technologies”, he said.

On 11 July in the Kazan Kremlin Tatarstan President Rustam Minnikhanov had a meeting with President of the Republic of Abkhazia Aslan Bzhania. 

On July 11, at their meeting in the Government House of the republic, Tatarstan President Rustam Minnikhanov and Head of the Federal Agency for Fisheries Ilya Shestakov discussed the issues of cooperation on the preservation of the ecosystem of water bodies, the development of fisheries and other pressing issues of the industry.

On July 11, speaking at a meeting in the Government House of the republic, Tatarstan President Rustam Minnikhanov said that hot weather in the republic led to an increase in accidents on the water and an aggravation of the fire situation.

On July 11, speaking at a regional meeting, Tatarstan President Rustam Minnikhanov instructed to constantly observe the sanitary and epidemiological situation in children's recreation camps, as well as strictly monitor the safety of children.