Tatarstan President is on a working trip in Jamnagar (India)
22 March 2012, Thursday
President of the Republic of Tatarstan Rustam Minnikhanov is on a working trip in Jamnagar (India, Gujarat). Main purpose of the trip is acquaintance with manufacturing process at one of the most up-to-date enterprises in the country – oil-refining plant Reliance Industries.
Rustam Minnikhanov is accompanied by Director of the Department for external relations under RT President – Aide to RT President on international issues Iskander Muflikhanov, Director general of JSC Tatneft Shafagat Takhautdinov, Director general of JSC TAIF Albert Shigabutdinov, First deputy director general of JSC Tatneft Nail Maganov.
The oil-refining plant in Jamnagar is the sixth biggest plant in the world. It was built for less than three years. During the first months it started refining more than 20 sorts of crude oil.
Located in one of special economic zones of India, close to Gulf of Kutch and Middle East resources of crude oil, the plant occupies the area of more than 3 thousand hectares.
33 mln tons of oil per year can be refined at the enterprise. There are 50 technology departments at the plant jointly refining main flow of crude oil for getting different end products. The complex is surrounded by the “green zone” with 100 thousand mango trees.
On March 10, the third meeting of the organizing committee on preparation and holding of the 20th anniversary Russian Venture Forum 2026 to be held in Kazan from April 8 to 10, chaired by Russian Minister of Science and Higher Education Valery Falkov and with participation of Tatarstan Prime Minister of the Republic of Tatarstan and co-chair of the forum’s organizing committee Aleksey Pesoshin, President of the Academy of Sciences of Tatarstan Rifkat Minnikhanov, Director of the Investment and Venture Fund of Tatarstan Damir Galiev as well as representatives of federal and regional authorities, development institutions and partner organizations via videoconference, took place.
On 10 March, speaking at a briefing dedicated to the development of the national Max messenger in Tatarstan and held in the Government House of the republic with all municipalities taking part in it via videoconference, the Minister of Digitalization of Public Administration, Information Technologies and Communication of the republic Ilya Nachvin informed that according to the data of March 2026 about 1.5m residents of Tatarstan use domestic Max messenger.
On 5 February Tatarstan Prime Minister Aleksey Pesoshin took part in ceremony of awarding winners of the regional competition “The Woman of the Year. The Man of the Year: A Woman’s View” held at the Korston Leisure and Recreation Center in Kazan.
On 4 March at a briefing in the Government House of the republic Tatarstan Minister of Land and Property Relation Fanil Agliullin told about changes in land legislation enforced from 1 March of the current year. He said that they simplify a number of procedures for land plot owners including expanding the possibilities for land use and changing the rules for changing the category of a plot.