On January 29, in the Kazan Kremlin Minister of Finance of the Russian Federation Alexei Kudrin conducted a meeting dedicated to the course of implementation of the federal law on monetisation of benefits in the Volga Federal District. President of Tatarstan Mintimer Shaimiev, Minister of Transport of the Russian Federation Igor Levitin, Minister of Education and Science of the Russian Federation Andrei Fursenko, heads of federal departments, and heads of six subjects of the Russian Federation took part in eh meeting. Among them were President of Mari El Leonid Markelov, Governor of the Kirov oblast Nikolai Shaklein, Governor of the Nizhny Novgorod oblast Gennady Khodyrev, Governor of the Penza oblast, President of the Association «Great Volga» Vasily Bochkarev.