On November 7 Chairman of the Federation Council of the Federal Assembly Valentina Matvienko, who arrived in Kazan with a working visit, was met by Tatarstan President Rustam Minnikhanov and Chairman of State Council Farid Mukhametshin at Kazan international airport.
Valentina Matvienko came to Kazan to hold a field meeting of the Council on issues of intellectual property “The role of Russian regions in development of the market of intellectual rights” (Kazan City Hall).
In the afternoon Valentina Matvienko will take part in International forum “Intellectual property and economy of Russian regions” (IT park), have a conversation with Tatarstan President Rustam Minnikhanov, and visit the island town of Sviyazhsk.
On 21 January Tatarstan Prime Minister Aleksey Pesoshin, the Chief Federal Inspector for Tatarstan Viktor Demidov, the Head of the Security and Escort Department of the Russian Federal Penitentiary Service Sergey Eliseev and other officials took part in a resulting meeting of the Directorate of Federal Penitentiary Service for Tatarstan held in Kazan, which summarized results of operational, service, production, economic and financial activities of the penal system of the republic in 2025 and set tasks for the current year.
On 20 January Tatarstan Prime Minister Aleksey Pesoshin and the Russian Minister of Construction, Housing and Utilities Irek Faizullin accompanied by the Minister of Construction, Architecture and Housing Utilities Sector of the republic Marat Ayzatullin visited a new building of the Kirov district court in Kazan located in close proximity to the Moscow district court of the city.
On 19 January Tatarstan Prime Minister Aleksey Pesoshin took part in a meeting of the Russian National Guard Troops Directorate for the republic which summarized results of its work in 2025.
After a welcoming speech of the Head of the Directorate Rustem Gumerov, the participants of the meeting listened to the report of the Deputy Head Sergey Yakushev who told about main activities of the Directorate in 2025.
On 16 January, speaking at an expanded meeting of the collegium of Tatarstan State Committee for Tariffs dedicated to results of 2025, Tatarstan Prime Minister Aleksey Pesoshin said that tariff regulation is a strategic tool of state policy defining quality of life of all Tatarstan residents.
He stated that the issues of tariffs setting is the point where interests of population, business and the state overlap. The State Committee is facing a difficult task of finding an optimal balance when tariffs will be socially just for the population and at the same time create necessary conditions for the sustainable development of enterprises in the communal, power and transport spheres.