From forums to negotiations
Hot on the heels of a round table on the topic: "Partnership in action: investment and financial opportunities for Russia and India" (you can see his record here), which took place on October 8 as part of the first forum "Time: Russia — India. Mutual Efficiency", the next day, representatives of the government and business of India arrived at the Investment Development Agency of the Republic of Tatarstan to meet with the head of the Agency, Taliya Minullina. During the meetings, the parties summed up the preliminary results of the forum, outlined promising areas and topics for the next one, and, of course, worked out potential investment projects for implementation in Tatarstan.
October 9th
Meeting No. 1: With Annapurna Shankar, Senior Investment Specialist and Russia-CIS Manager at Invest India.
Taliya Minullina met with a colleague from the Investment Agency of India. After exchanging impressions of the forum and outlining plans to strengthen investment work between the republics, the guest of Tatarstan went with Marina Epifantseva, Deputy head of the Agency, on industrial tours of the republic's facilities. The Investment Development Agency of the Republic of Tatarstan is the only member of WAIPA from Russia and therefore was pleased to welcome a colleague from this association.
Meeting No. 2: With Manprit Singh, President and Chairman of the Trust Council of the International Chamber of Investments and Business (ICIB).
Business communities are the main allies and clients of an investment agency anywhere in the world. Attracting investments from abroad is unthinkable without persistent active work with them. Most international economic events are created exclusively for business in order to ensure that the establishment of cooperation and trusting relations between them and the state, as well as between entrepreneurs, is as comfortable and effective as possible. That is why one of the main guests of the first forum "Time: Russia — India. Mutual efficiency" has become a business community.
In the work of the round table "Partnership in action: investment and financial opportunities for Russia and India" were attended by five of them, both Russian and Indian: the Association of Electrometallurgical Enterprises, the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs in the Krasnodar Territory, the Indian Business Council, the Opora Russia Association and the Trust Council of the International Chamber of Investments and Business (ICIB), the President and the chairman of which arrived to participate in a working meeting with the head of the Tatarstan Investment Development Agency Taliya Minullina.
During the meeting, the parties discussed the preliminary results of the first Russian-Indian forum and outlined topics that had not received due attention and required detailed consideration at the second, as well as reviewed the results of the round table.
Taliya Minullina: "Mr. Manprit Singh, President and Chairman of the Trust Council of the International Chamber of Investments and Business (ICIB), and I agreed during a personal meeting at the Agency that Tatarstan would host a delegation of Indian agricultural enterprises in November, and on December 1, the Republic of Tatarstan and India would jointly hold a round table on agriculture and food in India with the participation of Tatarstan companies and the republican specialized branch Ministry of Agriculture and Food".
Meeting No. 3: With Mr. Rajesh Kotecha, Secretary of the Ministry of AYUSH (Ayurveda, Yoga, Naturopathy, Unani, Siddhi and Homeopathy) of the Government of India.
Within the framework of the forum, at a business breakfast with the participation of the President of the Republic of Tatarstan, Rustam Minnikhanov, Mr. Rajesh Kumar Kotecha proposed to create a traditional medicine resort in India. In his speech, he outlined three areas of cooperation between India and Tatarstan aimed at strengthening economic ties.
1. To create a working group for the development of the AYUSH field of traditional medicine, possibly on the basis of Kazan University, and also to consider the possibility of creating channels for the supply of AYUSH products to Tatarstan, making it the first hub for the development of this field in Russia.
2. Attracting investments in the traditional medicine sector.
Mr. Kotecha noted that Indian entrepreneurs are interested in establishing a health center in Tatarstan. "I think it's a great initiative to create a resort and spa center. It will be an excellent Indo-Russian project. It will be great if it is implemented in Kazan," he said.
3. Cooperation with Kazan Federal University on the organization and conduct of clinical research in the field of traditional medicine with the support of the Ministry of AYUSH. Mr. Kotecha suggested appointing a supervisor for this work at the university.
"I am sure that this work will contribute to the scientific development and change of views on traditional medicine. Of course, this activity has economic potential, and will also allow Tatarstan to become the center of integration medicine throughout Russia," he stressed.
During the meeting, which was held with the participation of representatives of the Ministry of Health of the Republic of Tatarstan and the Ministry of Industry and Trade of Tatarstan, with the head of the Agency, Taliya Minullina, the parties discussed in detail the possibilities of implementing investment projects in the republic in the field of healthcare aimed at improving the health of both the local population and guests of Tatarstan who came to the republic as medical tourists. Mr. Rajesh Kotecha is convinced that such initiatives could become a new point of attraction within the existing practice of medical tourism in Tatarstan. He invited representatives of the relevant authorities of the republic as a delegation to India to demonstrate such projects, as well as medical organizations in India.
The second topic for discussion was an already painful problem — the complexity of current legislation in the field of healthcare and consumer protection for foreign businesses to understand, in particular, the lack of intelligible information and explanation to foreign citizens of the specifics of the laws.
October 10, 2025
Meeting No. 1: with the Speaker of the Forum's Plenary Session, President of the BRICS International Forum Purnima Anand
On the final day of the first forum "Time: Russia — India. Mutual effectiveness" the speaker of the Plenary Session of the Forum, President of the BRICS International Forum Purnima Anand met with the Head of the Investment Development Agency of the Republic of Tatarstan Taliya Minullina to summarize the results of the event.
Meeting No. 2: with the founder of the Indian company Manan Maharaja
On the same day, Taliya Minullina spoke with Manan Maharaja, the founder of the Indian company Tech Police, at the Agency.