Forum of national media agencies to be held in Tatarstan
14 January 2014, Tuesday
On January 14 at a summary session of Regional press and mass media agency Head of the agency Irek Minnakhmetov told that a forum of national media agencies will be held in Tatarstan in 2014.
Tatarstan President Rustam Minnikhanov, Chief of Staff of Tatarstan President’s Office Asgat Safarov, Deputy Prime Minister Yury Kamaltynov, Deputy Chairman of State Council, Chairman of the Union of journalists Rimma Ratnikova took part in the event.
According to Irek Minnakhmetov, the forum will be held to discuss urgent issues of interethnic and interconfessioanl relations, current state and prospects of Russian regional and national media agencies, to exchange experience, and hold seminars. 150 representatives of leading media agencies from 50 Russian regions are expected to take part in the forum.
Irek Minnakhmetov made a keynote report at today’s session. He told that the amount of state orders of media agencies made 1 bln 202 mln rubles. Two major media holdings, OAO Tatmedia and TNV, have main shares of the state order. The proceeds of OAO Tatmedia made 1 bln 303 mln rubles. Media agencies receive the biggest share of incomings due to commercial projects and advertisement.
The average salary of employees of media agencies made 21 300 rubles.
According to resolution of experts of the Association of communication agencies of Russia, total advertising volume of media agencies for 9 months of 2013 made 197 bln rubles. All media segments of advertising market showed positive dynamics except for press.
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.