On December 29, within the framework of his working visit to Kazkhstan, Tatarstan President Rustam Minnikhanov had a meeting with Kazakhstan Prime Minister Karim Massimov. Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation to the Republic of Kazakhstan Mikhail Bocharnikov and Tatarstan delegates take part. 

On December 28, upon his arrival to Kazakhstan Republic, Tatarstan President Rustam Minnikhanov was met by Kazakhstan Minister of Defence Imangali Tasmagambetov at the Astana International Airport.

On December 27, Tatarstan President Rustam Minnikhanov, Minister of Energy of the Russian Federation  Alexander Novak, Tatarstan Prime Minister Ildar Khalikov, The Mayor of Kazan  Ilsur Metshin and others visited the  New Year fair opened  in  Staro-Tatarskaya sloboda. 

On December 27, at the end of ceremony dedicated to the launching a new electrical power unit, a combined cycle plant with a capacity of 220 MW named after V.K.Shibanov at Kazan CHPP-2, Minnikhanov said, “It is the most up-to-date power unit. The electricity market is very competitive, and we need to meet the modern requirements”. “We have fallen in the field of updating the power engineering facilities and we have to work hard. We have projects for the further development, electrical power units in Nizhnekamsk, Zainsk and Elabuga are among them.