The Committee for Small and Medium Enterprise Development has been converted into a new entity.
President of Tatarstan Rustam Minnikhanov has decreed to transform the Committee for Small and Medium Enterprise Development into the Tatarstan Investment Development Agency. The dissolved committee’s chairman Linar Yakupov has headed up the new body.
The decree stipulates that the Investment Agency is an executive authority of special competence that manages the development of investment activities within public private partnership and private investments inside Tatarstan, and provides integrated supervision of investment projects. The agency is a successor to the Committee for Small and Medium Enterprise Development, including on the obligations set forth in concluded agreements and contracts. The Investment Development Agency’s chief is included in the Tatarstan Cabinet of Ministers.
The government is instructed to ensure the implementation of measures aimed to transform the Committee for Small and Medium Enterprise Development into the Investment Development Agency of Tatarstan.
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.
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