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On April 15, at a briefing at Tatarstan Government House Head of Tatarstan Department of Federal Tax Service Marat Safiullin reported that Tatarstan citizens have filed 47,000 tax returns since beginning of the declaration campaign in 2014. This makes 55 per cent of the total number of citizens who have to report about their income for 2013 (about 83,000 citizens).

On April 15 at his meeting with Zhang Chunxian, a member of Political Bureau of the Central Committee of Communist Party of China, Secretary of the party committee of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region in Urumqi, Tatarstan President Rustam Minnikhanov said that Tatarstan and Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region have many opportunities for cooperation.

On April 15, at their meeting in Kazan, Tatarstan Prime Minister Ildar Khalikov and Vice President of OAO “LUKOIL”, Director General of OAO “RITEK” Nikolay Nikolaev discussed issues related implementation of joint projects and investment programmes of OAO “LUKOIL” in Tatarstan.

On April 15, during their working trip to China, members of Tatarstan delegation led by Tatarstan President Rustam Minnikhanov visited the Urumqi Economic and Technological Development Zone.

On April 15, during his working trip to China, Tatarstan President visited one of the oldest and largest mosque in Urumqi, the administrative center of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region.

On April 14, Tatarstan President Rustam Minnikhanov held a meeting on construction, reconstruction and repair of road and street system, construction of a new tram line in Naberezhnye Chelny, as well as development of industrial sites at IT Park in Naberezhnye Chelny.

On April 14 at an annual shareholders meeting of OAO “Nizhnekamskneftekhim” Tatarstan President Rustam Minnikhanov said that oil processing and petrochemistry are growing points of Tatarstan economy. He also noted that OAO “Nizhnekamskneftekhim” is the biggest polystyrene producers in the world. For 12 years we have been launching new large-scale production, and today we also took part in solemn launching of the 4th stage of polystyrene production at OAO “Nizhnekamskneftekhim”, Rustam Minnikhanov reminded.