December 7, Tatarstan President Mintimer Shaimiev and Governor of the Kirov Region Nikita Belykh signed the Cooperation between the Republic of Tatarstan and the Kirov Region on trade and economic, scientific-technical and social and cultural cooperation and the Protocol of its implementation in 2009-2013.
The signing ceremony followed the meeting of heads of the two regions.
The delegation of the Kirov Region led by its Governor Nikita Belykh arrived in Tatarstan early on December 7. They visited the livestock complex Staryi Selaus, the Kazan oil-extracting plant, the Educational centre of high medical technologies, the Kazan Tennis Academy, the IT-Park and the RT Centre of information technologies.