The Tatarstan Prime Minister Ildar Khalikov has met with FINA President Julio Cesar Maglione and CEO Cornel Marculescu. Tatarstan’s Minister of youth affairs, sport and tourism Rafis Burganov and Chief of Universiade Executive Office Vladimir Leonov were present at the meeting.
Julio Cesar Maglione and Cornel Marculescu visited Kazan in the run-up to the World FINA aquatics convention (Moscow, October 29 – November 1). FINA President and CEO arrived in the capital of Tatarstan to estimate readiness of the city for the World Aquatics Championship 2015. They have already looked around the thousand-year city, visited sports venues, hotels, and estimated transport infrastructure.
At the meeting at the Tatarstan Government House Ildar Khalikov welcomed guests saying he was sure that their visit would be useful and informative.
The PM also informed that preparation for Universiade 2013 was coming to an end. All sport and transport objects will be finished the year before the World Aquatics Championship. It will surely enable holding competitions at high level.
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.