On June 26 Speaker of the Tatarstan Parliament Farid Mukhametshin chaired a meeting of the Committee on current affairs of the Congress of Local and Regional Authorities of the Council of Europe eld in Ankara

On June 27 Tatarstan President Rustam Minnikhanov and Mayor of Kazan Ilsur Metshin officially opened the reconstructed Lenin Dam in Kazan.

On June 26 at his meeting with journalists at the Kazan Kremlin Tatarstan State Counselor Mintimer Shaimiev said that UNESCO had acknowledged the universal value of Bolgar at 37th session of UNESCO World Heritage Committee in Cambodia.

On June 26 Tatarstan President Rustam Minnikhanov took part in honouring ceremony of “Dinamo-Kazan” field hockey team, 10-time Russian Champions, at the Kazan Kremlin.

On June 26 Tatarstan President Rustam Minnikhanov took part in opening of one-level parking and square near Kazan railway station.

On June 26 Moscow-Kazan video conference bridge “10 days before the Universiade” took place at RIA Novosti International Multimedia Press Center within the framework of the project “RIA Olympic meetings”.

On June 26 at a republican meeting on agricultural issues in Kukmor region Tatarstan President Rustam Minnikhanov said that unfavourable weather conditions would affect this year’s harvest and agricultural workers should do their best to provide forage reserve and bread.

On June 26 during his working trip to Kukmor region for participation in a seminar on issues of agro-industrial complex Tatarstan President Rustam Minnikhanov got familiar with state-of-the-art agricultural technologies.

On June 26 at their meeting in Kazan Tatarstan Prime Minister Ildar Khalikov and officials of the international rating agency Fitch Ratings discussed readiness of Tatarstan for summer Universiade 2013 in Kazan, condition of roads and sports venues constructed for the World sport student games.

On June 25 at a briefing dedicated to the International Day Against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking (June 26) Chief of Russia’s Federal Agency for Drug Control in Tatarstan Republic Fayaz Shabaev said that about half of drugs confiscated in Tatarstan was of synthetic origin.