On March 11, in the Kazan Kremlin Mintimer Shaimiev told journalists that already in March he would pass a new procedure of empowering as head of the republic through the Parliament of Tatarstan. The agreement was reached in Moscow on March 9 during the meeting of Putin and Shaimiev.
This term of the RT President will come to an end in March 2006. Shaimiev said that Putin expressed his wish that the present head of the republic should continue his work on that post.