Taliya Minullina met with Development Director of the Belgian logistics company Katoen Natie Sven Schepers. Tatarstan Investment Development Agency talked with Mr. Schepers on the results of technologies of "Katoen Natie", presented to JSC "TAIF" and JSC "Kazanorgsintez" (Russia).

Mr. Schepers noted high potential of Tatarstan and positive impression of the dynamics of development and initiatives that are taking leadership and the business community of Tatarstan. Development Director of "Katoen Natie" summed up his observations so that the company does not expect immediate results and will continue to monitor the market opportunities of Tatarstan for the investment.

Today Tatarstan Investment Development Agency Chief Executive Taliya Minullina made a presentation of the investment potential of Tatarstan in the city of Doha - the capital of the State of Qatar, which is visited by the delegation of Tatarstan headed by the President of Tatarstan Rustam Minnikhanov.

Speaking at a round table, where participated the Head of the Qatar Investment Management, the Head of the Chamber of Commerce of Qatar Mohammed bin Ahmed bin Tovar Al Kuwari and representatives of business circles of Arab State, TIDA Chief Executive in detail told about the economy, industry, perspective niches for investment, noting that Tatarstan is developing on the basis of the Republican strategy 2030, with particular emphasis on high-tech industries.

Tatarstan Investment Development Agency Chief Executive Taliya Minullina answered the questions of the Chinese edition of BBC World Service.

Journalists of the corporation created a series of reports about the interaction of Russia and China, within the tour they have visited Moscow, St. Petersburg and Tatarstan.

Today in "Korston", Kazan, was held a plenary session of the X World Forum "Business partners of Tatarstan".

This year it involves about 600 delegates from 52 regions of Russia and 23 countries. The event was attended by President Rustam Minnikhanov.

At the plenary session presented Tatarstan Investment Development Agency Chief Executive Taliya Minullina.

She told in details about the investment attractiveness of Tatarstan, ongoing projects, the active work with the business community of different countries (Republic operates on the international market with partners from more than 140 countries), the forum KazanSummit and Investor Guide PWC, which is posted on TIDA’s website. After all Taliya Minullina paid much attention to the theme of love for the Motherland - Tatarstan patriots have come to the forum.

"We all know the adage - East or West, home is best," said TIDA Chief Executive.

The participants also met with applause the words of beauty.

"Mr. Minnikhanov said that I am beautiful. The main thing in a person – is a spiritual beauty. It is particularly evident in the love for the Motherland," said TIDA Chief Executive.

Taliya Minullina spoke about Bulgar - unique ancient city of Tatarstan, UNESCO World Heritage Site, which has the biggest printed Koran in the world.

 "We are together, we can do it," concluded Taliya Minullina, whose words was in line with the mood of the participants - to work together for the good of the country and the republic.

 TIDA Press Service, Iskander Ahmedov

Photo: Mikhail Frolov, the Press Service of the President of the Republic of Tatarstan; TIDA Press Service

On December 4 held group projects protection of heads of state bodies, municipal districts and urban districts of Tatarstan within "Effective Management: Strategy. Actions. Results" educational program of the Moscow School of Management "Skolkovo".

Training began in May, the "students"  studied for 4 days every 1.5 months. Emphasis was made on independent work, design, effective communication, the program was held on 5 modules (for example, the theme of the first module - strategic planning). Status participants were divided into six working groups, each of which created a collective project. In tuition of students participated economists, experts in the field of communications and other fields.

The results of the republican contest "Best civil servant of the Republic of Tatarstan" in 2015 summed up yesterday at the Cabinet of Ministers of RT. Tatarstan President Rustam Minnikhanov presented awards to 12 winners in six categories.

In the category "Cross-sectoral management" Head of the examination of investment projects department of Tatarstan Investment Development Agency Dmitry Alexeyev was the best.

Today, the staff of TIDA congratulated a colleague with the victory.

In Tatarstan the first stage of the project "Creation of Sviyazhsky interregional multimodal center" is completed, said President of the Republic of Tatarstan Rustam Minnikhanov during a business breakfast of the Ministry of Transport of Russia on December 3rd.
The project was created for the consolidation of road, rail and river cargo traffic with the purpose of development and maintenance of international transport corridors. At present, the total traffic volume in the Republic of Tatarstan is about 45 million tons per year, by 2020 more than 25 percent of cargo traffic is planned to refocus on Sviazhskiy logistics center, and by 2030 - more than 40 percent.
"The September Message of the President of Tatarstan has set the task to create in the republic the third special economic zone - based on Sviyazhsky multimodal center. It is very important that the first phase of the project has been successfully completed, an infrastructure base was set up. The total funding of the first phase of the project is 8 billion rubles, 6.5 of which - funds from the federal budget. Later the SEZ will attract private investment - both domestic and foreign", said Tatarstan Investment Development Agency Chief Executive Taliya Minullina.
In the first stage of the project at the expense of national resources has been completed site preparations and provided power, has been completed the construction of federal facilities - the quay wall with the possibility of making any type of cargo of sea and river vessels, rail sidings, the road with the traffic intersection connecting the center with federal highway M-7 "Volga". The equipment of Sviyazhsk railway station has been upgraded.
The project of Sviyazhskiy interregional multimodal logistics center makes Tatarstan core of transport and logistics transport at the intersection of international transport corridors "North-South" and "East-West". The project will optimize the transportation performed by rail, river and road transport among Europe and China, and within the country.
 
TIDA Press Service

 "The Message of the President of Russia correlates with the Message of the President of the Republic of Tatarstan - they have a powerful impetus to the development of investment", commented the words of head of state Tatarstan Investment Development Agency Chief Executive Taliya Minullina.

 The Republic of Tatarstan has been given the Gold award in the nomination "The region of the Russian Federation with the most favorable investment climate". The awarding ceremony of World Investment Award "Investment Angel" was held in Moscow on November 30.
In addition, a number of Tatarstan investors was marked. In the nomination “Investor of the Year” LLC «Chelny-Broiler» has got a silver award, in the nomination "Technology Investor of the Year" LLC Ford Sollers got the Bronze award.

In the State Duma of the Russian Federation in the framework of the Investment Board deputies, representatives of federal executive bodies, bankers, managers of industrial enterprises, public institutions, academic economists discussed the legal aspects of industry support. The event was held on 30 November 2015 by the Chairman of the State Duma Sergey Naryshkin.

"The task of the legislators - to provide systematic support to Russian enterprises, to help anyone who is upgrading or introducing new capacity, produces high quality products. Unmotivated restrictions on investment in production should not be. We must improve the quality of national jurisdiction, so that a private businesses have seen their security, reliability and ease of both material and procedural legal norms and, of course, had no doubt in qualifying and justice courts", said Chairman of the State Duma.

According to him, we need additional measures of tax and customs tariff regulation, strengthening the institution of public-private partnership, the scope of consumer cooperatives, improvement of public procurement and purchasing.

Note that Tatarstan pays great attention to these areas.

TIDA Chief Executive Taliya Minullia:

"The parliamentary platform is an important area for discussing ways and forms of investment, the most pressing issues for our investors. Tatarstan uses this tool – there is a close interaction with the State Council and relevant committees. Given the richness of the past year, I know that we will work together with the national parliament on creating and modifying legal acts.

So, after the adoption of the federal law on PPP the republic is preparing to corresponding changes in regional legislation, Tatarstan Investment Development Agency takes an active part in the process. This is very important, because a large-scale project - a high-speed railway Moscow-Kazan goes with an active participation of Tatarstan, it will be implemented as part of the PPP".

Kirill Dmitriev, General Director of Russian Direct Investment Fund, Deputy Chairman of the Board of Investment under the Chairman of the State Duma, said:

"For the development of the industrial sector of Russia it is important to create high-quality infrastructure and to use the considerable potential of companies to improve efficiency. Already today it is possible to ensure the growth of perspective companies in two or three times, that will be an additional stimulus to investment and the introduction of advanced technologies".

According to the Director of department of development of the contract system of the Ministry of Economic Development Maxim Chemerisov, last year the total amount of public procurement amounted to more than 23 bln. rubles. In other words, in the framework of public procurement is redistributed over a quarter of Russia's GDP. In this regard, the representative of the Ministry proposed to consider procurement as a tool for macroeconomic forecasting and increase the investment attractiveness of the domestic economy, and therefore procurement should focus on stimulating demand for domestic products, and the fight against corruption. Speaking about import substitution, Maxim Chemerisov proposed to introduce incentives for the localization of production in Russia, to strengthen cooperation with its partners in the Eurasian Economic Union and speed up the adoption of the bill to restrict the access of foreign goods. The meaning of the project, known as "third wheel" is that if for auction come up two or more applications from domestic suppliers, foreign applications are automatically rejected.

According to the participants of the meeting, formation of the complex state of industrial policy is crucial to promoting economic growth, the implementation of industrial-technical potential, as well as the national security of the Russian Federation. An effective element of this support is intended to be a mechanism of "Investment lift" for medium-sized companies, created on behalf of the President of the Russian Federation.

An effective support tool is intended to be a special investment contract provided by the law on industrial policy.

According to First Deputy Minister of Industry and Trade Gleb Nikitin, from the beginning of the law submitted 185 pre-applications for the signing of such contracts. Deputy Minister drew attention of the participants of the meeting to the need to clarify certain provisions of the existing legislation in the field of industrial policy. It should specify the norms of the law on standardization, making appropriate changes to dozens of other laws. In particular, it is a priority of procurement based on state standards. It is also proposed to introduce a special, non-competitive procurement regime for the parties of the investment contract, which would require an adjustment of the competition law. In addition, Mr. Nikitin called for the introduction of tangible tax incentives for "greenfield"s. The appropriate project is being prepared for the second reading.

Presidential Commissioner for Entrepreneurs' Rights Boris Titov called to move from a policy of containment, which, in his estimation, makes almost any production unprofitable in Russia, to the policy of encouraging industrial growth.

President of the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs Alexander Shokhin, referring the matter to stimulate investment, proposed to think about refinancing bank loans to industrial projects and investment projects of import substitution. At the same time, access to tax benefits should be wide enough, otherwise notable results can not be achieved.

Rector of the Russian Academy of National Economy and Public Administration under President Vladimir Mau called for lower interest rates on loans and preservation of tax stability.

As the press service of the State Duma notes, summing up the discussion, Sergey Naryshkin assured that the issue of legislative support for the industry in the foreseeable future will not lose its relevance. Legislative Duma portfolio contains a number of important initiatives that must be taken before the end of the year, and then the work will continue.

 TIDA Press Service