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Tatarstan Prime Minister Rustam Minnikhanov visited Yelabuga, Tatarstan on April 2. On the territory of SEZ Alabuga he held a working meeting on problems of the special economic zone infrastructure construction.

Tatarstan Association of Farmers and Farms is to sign a contract with Bastet-grupp company for supply of equipment for grain elevators.

Rosneft and Tatneft companies have been included in the list of candidates claiming oil-gas field exploration in Iraq as a part of the second qualifying stage. Russian informational agencies report about it citing Iraq’s Oil Ministry.

Tatarstan Healthcare Minister Ayrat Farrakhov and the head of Israel’s Assaf Harofeh Medical Centre’s Medical Tourism Department Yury Brahman held a meeting at the ministry.

General manager of Mazak company (Yamazaki Mazak Trading Corporation, Japany) Nobuharu Yamaguchi visited Kazan Helicopter Plant at the end of March.

A delegation of the Russian Federation Ministry of Industry and Trade headed by the Minister Viktor Khristenko visited OAO KAPO named after Gorbunov. Viktor Khristenko examined a short range aircraft TU-334 and TU-214. Tatarstan Prime Minister Rustam Minnikhanov accompanied the delegation.

The international rating agency Fitch Ratings confirmed the ratings of the Republic of Tatarstan: long-term ratings in foreign and national currency "BBB-" and short-term rating in foreign currency "F3". The national long-term rating is confirmed at AA+(rus) level. The forecast on the long-term ratings on the international scale in both foreign and national currency and the national long-term rating is marked as 'stable', Finmarket Agency reports.

Representatives of 31 countries will take part in the international marathon road rally Silk Road 2009 - Dakar series. Kazan will host such a high level event for the first time. The idea was offered by the head of Turkmenistan and was supported by the President of Russia. It is supposed that the rally Silk Road - Dakar series should become the largest off-road race in the Eurasian part of the world.

The meeting of the management of the RT Ministry of Industry and Trade with the delegation of military attaches of Austria, Switzerland, Holland and Germany will take place at the RT Ministry of Industry and Trade on April 1. The aim of the visit is to get acquainted with the industrial potential of the Republic of Tatarstan.

The procedure of OAO KAPO named after Gorbunov, the State-run Kazan aircraft manufacturer, entering the United Aircraft Corporation (OUC) is to be finished this summer. OUC President Aleksei Fyodorov and Russian Minister of Industry and Trade Viktor Khristnko told journalists about it during the visit to the Kazan enterprise on March 31.