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On May 18, at their meeting at Tatarstan Government House, Tatarstan Prime Minister Ildar Khalikov and Consul General of Hungary in Kazan Ferenc Kontra discussed issues related to further development of mutually beneficial relations between Hungary and Tatarstan as one of the Russian regions.

On May 17, Interim President of the Republic of Tatarstan Rustam Minnikhanov, who arrived on a working visit to the Republic of Turkey, was met by Minister of Economy of the Republic of Turkey Nihat Zeybekdzhi, Acting Governor of Denizli Province Ekrem Büyükata at the Cardak international airport in Denizli.

On May 16, at Tatarstan Government House, Interim President of the Republic of Tatarstan Rustam Minnikhanov had a meeting with Russian Minister of Natural Resources and Environment Sergey Donskoi. “We discussed issues related to competences of the federal agency, and could find the understanding and support on them," Minnikhanov commented on the meeting outcome. Following the meeting, Donskoi and Minnikhanov signed an agreement between the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment of the Russian Federation and the Republic of Tatarstan on the establishment of fields for the development and introduction of new technologies to search, explore, and develop hard-to-recover reserves, hydrocarbon resources.

On May 15, Interim President of the Republic of Tatarstan Rustam Minnikhanov, Deputy Director General of “Rosatom” State Corporation Aleksandr Lokshin, Director General of “Holding Company "Composite" Leonid Melamed, Director General of SEZ “Alabuga” Timur Shagivaleev, Director of the Department for chemical-technical and forest industry of Russian Ministry of Industry and Trade Vladimir Potapkin and Head of Elabuga region Gennady Emelyanov took part in opening of “Alabuga-Volokno” plant at Specialized Economic Zone “Alabuga”.