Prospects of cooperation between the Republic of Tatarstan and the World Bank were in the highlight at the business lunch of the President of the Republic of Tatarstan and the Managing Director of the World Bank, Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, on June 7. The meeting took place in the framework of the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum.
Energy, oil-refining and engineering industries can become the basis of mutually beneficial cooperation between Tatarstan and Colombia, one of the leading Latin American countries. This issue was in the focus at the meeting of Tatarstan President Mintimer Shaimiev and Colombian Vice-president Francisco Santos Calderon on June 6 in St. Petersburg where the head of Tatarstan is taking part in the XII St. Petersburg International Economic Forum.
June 6, Tatarstan President Mintimer Shaimiev flew to St. Petersburg where he will take part in the XII St. Petersburg International Economic Forum.
Kazan chosen site for 2013 Universiade, Tatarstan President receiving many congratulations telegrams.
June 5, Grigory Rapota, the Plenipotentiary Envoy of the President of the Russian Federation in the Volga Federal District, and Mintimer Shaimiev, the RT President, visited the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Republic of Tatarstan.
The President of the Republic of Tatarstan, Mintimer Shaimiev, received the congratulation by the Chairman of the Government of the Russian Federation, Vladimir Putin, on the Tatarstan capital's hosting the World Summer Universiade 2013, the Press-service of the RT President reports.