Rustam Minnikhanov holds first session of Investment Council of the Republic of Tatarstan
16 December 2012, Sunday
First session of Investment Council of the Republic of Tatarstan chaired by the Tatarstan President was held Rustam Minnikhanov was held at the RT Government House.
The Investment Council of the Republic of Tatarstan was founded in accordance with the RT President’s Decree dated as of July, 5, 2012 № 538 for the purpose of realizing RT laws “On foreign investments in the Republic of Tatarstan”, and “On investment activity in the Republic of Tatarstan”, and for improving investment climate of the Republic of Tatarstan.
The council is a collegiate authority for attracting investments to the republican economy chaired by the Tatarstan President was held Rustam Minnikhanov.
Participants of the session considered main tasks on organizational-technical and information-analysis support of activity of the RT Investment Council and increase of republic’s investment attractiveness.
Member of the Investment Council, Chief executive of the RT Investment Development Agency Linar Yakupov made a report.
To the point, the Republic of Tatarstan is a pilot region to test the Standard of activity of executive authorities of the RF entity on ensuring favourable investment climate in Tatarstan. The Standard was developed by the Agency of strategic initiatives. Measures on ensuring investment climate taken by heads of the Republic of Tatarstan, Lipetsk, Kaluga, Sverdlovsk, Ulyanovsk and Perm regions influenced content of the Standard.
Bashkortostan, Astrakhan, Belgorod, Chelyabinsk, Yaroslavl, and Leningrad regions started adopting the standard in 2012.
Read more about the Standard of activity of executive authorities of the RF entity on ensuring favourable investment climate on the website http://www.asi.ru/asi_in_regions/Standart.pdf
Participants of the session discussed proposals on optimizing the process aimed at attraction of investments to the Republic of Tatarstan. Rustam Minnikhanov said that both heads of municipalities and chiefs of ministries and agencies must do their best to implement the mentioned task. The RT Investment Development Agency plays a key role in it.
On 31 March in the Government House of the republic Tatarstan Deputy Prime Minister Leyla Fazleeva hold a meeting of the Commission on the Russian language under the Rais of Tatarstan, which considered key issues of supporting and developing Russian language, including new educational initiatives and discussed programmes of popularization of Russian literature and activities to preserve the language heritage.
On 28 March, speaking at a meeting held by Tatarstan Prime Minister Aleksey Pesoshin in the Government House of the republic with participation of the Acting Chairman of the State Council of the republic Marat Akhmetov and all municipalities taking part in it via videoconference, the regional Minister of Ecology and Natural Resources Azat Ziganshin informed that the regional central cleaning up action will be held in the republic on 25 April and clarified that the location of the national cleanup day will be announced later as the site will be chosen taking into account the opinions of Tatarstan residents.
On 28 March, speaking at a meeting held by Tatarstan Prime Minister Aleksey Pesoshin in the Government House of the republic with participation of the regional and the Acting Chairman of the State Council of the republic Marat Akhmetov and all municipalities taking part in it via videoconference, the regional Deputy Minister of Construction, Architecture and Housing Utilities Sector Damir Shaydullin informed about statistics on the collection of utility bills payments from the population and data on the payment discipline of enterprises and organizations of the republic.
On 27 March, speaking at a ceremonial event dedicated to celebrations of the Day of Russian National Guard held at the Kazan City Hall with participation of the Chief of the Office of the Staff of the Rais of the republic Asgat Safarov, heads of law-enforcement bodies of the republic and veterans and employees of the territorial Directorate of the National Guard, Tatarstan Prime Minister Aleksey Pesoshin said that the Russian National Guard Directorate for the republic Republic of Tatarstan is traditionally acknowledged as one of the best in the country.