On February 25, speaking at an extended session of the Presidential Council for inther-ethnic relations held by Tatarstan President Rustam Minnikhanov, Deputy Chief of Staff of Tatarstan President’s Administrative Office - Head of the Department for domestic policy Alexander Terentyev said that all the programme documents adopted in Tatarstan, contributing to the preservation of interethnic and interreligious harmony, are aimed at preserving languages and cultures of the peoples living in Tatarstan and ensuring inter-ethnic and inter-religious peace and concord, harmonization of interethnic relations.

On February 25, at their meeting in Kazan Tatarstan State Counsellor Mintimer Shaimiev and Chairman of Russian Presidential council for the development of the civil society and human rights Mikhail Fedotov exchanged opinions about an extended session of Tatarstan Presidential Council for inter-ethnic relations held at the Kazan Kremlin today and discussed problems of state national policy and strengthening of inter-ethnic concord.

On February 24, speaking at a session of the Federal bailiff Service in Tatarstan Chief Bailiff of the republic Radik Ilyasov reported that as a result of enforcement procedures Tatarstan bailiffs collected 8.5 billion roubles, including 2.9 billion roubles in the consolidated budget.

On February 23, Tatarstan President Rustam Minnikhanov, who is with official Russian delegation led by Minister of Industry and Trade Denis Manturov in Abu Dhabi, met Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan – the UAE Minister of Foreign Affairs, Co-Chairman of Intergovernmental Russian-Emirate Commission for Trade, Economic and Technical Cooperation.