NEWS

Top managers of foreign companies, invested in the region, met with the leadership of Tatarstan Investment Development Agency. Sides discussed the challenges, which face investors in Tatarstan, assessed the current situation and gave recommendations for further cooperation.

The discussion was attended by representatives of Hygiene Technologies, Yokogawa, Honeywell, KPMG, YIT Kazan, LLC «Kactamonu Integrated Wood Industry» (SEZ «Alabuga»), EY, Schneider Electric, PwC, Bank «Intesa» Credit Europe Bank. The meeting was held in an informal atmosphere – in a «Courtyard Marriott Kazan» hotel terrace.

«We are interested in the fact that you share your opinion about our work, offer recommendations to improve the investment climate of the republic and tell us about the difficulties that you face while working in Tatarstan», - underscored Linar Yakupov.

Sharing information about the difficulties they faced, company representatives told about the problems with the staff. Investors also underscored the work of taxi services, noting that in Kazan can be introduced taxi services’ international standards. Sides discussed lack of residential infrastructure, visa support, the formation of the investment image of Tatarstan, one of the guests said that foreign partners are not always know all opportunities of republic.

Republic took the first place in the nomination «The minimum economic risks» of XVIII rating of investment attractiveness of regions, prepared by «Expert RA» rating agency.

Tatarstan entered to the top ten of the Russian Federation’s regions, who took the leading positions in the ranking on the overall level of investment risk. Tatarstan took the seventh place. In the first place located Leningrad region, second and the third place is given for Belgorod and Lipetsk regions.

The third place is reserved for Tatarstan as a region with a high level of creating highly productive jobs. In the first and second places of the rating located Moscow and St. Petersburg.

This year, «Expert RA» agency noted not only the regions, but also the companies promoting and improving their investment climate. The largest growth of SME lending in the 9 months of 2013 had Tatarstan JSC «AIKB «Tatfondbank». Diploma «for the active development of SME lending for 9 months of 2013» awarded JSC «IntechBank».

The parties discussed the progress of the project, its financing and the development of engineering infrastructure.

In Tatarstan Investment Development Agency held a meeting with representatives of «VIS» construction companies on creating infrastructure of Kazan Smart City. «VIS» delegation headed by Board of Directors Deputy Chairman Rashid Aytuganov included Advisor to the Board of Directors Deputy Chairman Ramil Galeev, Advisor to the Board of Directors Chairman Dmitry Chekeshev.

The meeting was attended by Tatarstan Investment Development Agency Chief Executive Linar Yakupov, Chief Executive First Deputy Robert Galiullin, Head of Public Private Partnership Department Sergey Golovin and Tatarstan Development Corporation CEO Bulat Gayanov.

Tatarstan holds the first place among the regions of Russian Federation with the best socio-economic development.

This ranking was announced by the Minister of Regional Development of Russia Igor Slyunyayev at the meeting chaired by Dmitry Medvedev. At the meeting evaluated the effectiveness of executive authorities of the Russian Federation in 2012 and the distribution of grants in the form of intergovernmental transfers.

As Igor Slyunyaev noted, there is identified 20 federal regions with the best socio-economic development. These include the Republic of Tatarstan, Belgorod, Voronezh, Krasnodar and Kaluga regions.

The assessment was made by a number of indicators: lifetime, the volume of investment in fixed assets (excluding the budget); turnover of goods (services) produced by small enterprises, including micro-enterprises; the amount of tax and non-tax revenues of the consolidated budget of the Russian Federation and the unemployment rate. Among the indicators are also graduates of state (municipal) educational institutions, not passed the state examination, the proportion of children without parental care and others.

Within two days to the representatives of Altai Main Department of Economy and Investment and CAU «Altai Public-private partnership and investments» was presented the republic’s investment experience, issues of interaction between government and business, as well as investment projects and industrial sites of the region.

In Tatarstan Investment Development Agency (TIDA) delegation met with TIDA First Deputy Chief Executive Robert Galiullin, heads of investment projects monitoring and support, development of public-private partnership (PPP) departments, as well as Tatarstan Development Corporation Deputy CEO Jawdat Akhmanov.

At the meeting discussed investors attracting, a large-scale “Invest in Tatarstan” PR-campaign, republic’s industrial estates and special economic zones, as well as cooperation with the World Association of Investment Promotion Agencies (WAIPA). The parties also discussed the «one window» principle, the standard of executive authorities and iPMS (Investment Project Monitoring System).

Tatarstan Investment Development Agency (TIDA) and Tatarstan Development Corporation (TDC) took part in a meeting of the club, which was held in Moscow Representation of Japan External Trade Organization (JETRO).

The event was attended by about 20 representatives of Japanese companies interested in cooperation with the Republic of Tatarstan.

Invitation to participate in the meeting of the Japanese business club was announced during a visit to the region of a Director of the Nomura Research Institute (NRI) Moscow branch Iwao Ohashi. In September Mr. Ohashi accompanied delegation of Japanese companies in visiting Tatarstan.

During the meeting in Tatarstan Investment Development Agency Iwao Ohashi invited TIDA Chief Executive Linar Yakupov and TDC CEO Bulat Gayanov to present in Japanese business Club. Mr. Ohashi underscored that business club members need to know about Tatarstan’s interesting and unique project - Kazan Smart City. He also noted that the project can use Japanese technologies.

Multriwell and Trisoplast Mineral Liners companies (Netherlands) already implemented  the same project in Samara.

Prospects for using «multriwell» (biogas pumping) and «trisoplast» (garbage layers insulation) effective systems in the places of garbage collection in Tatarstan, as well as the feasibility of the project were discussed at the meetings, held in Tatarstan Investment Development Agency.

During the first meeting Trisoplast Mineral Liners (Netherlands) Commercial Director Yudjin Timerman, the representative of the company’s Russian office Vladislav Proskuriakov presented projects on the production of insulation materials for the efficient gas extraction and further electricity production.

At the same meeting ecological park «Samosyrovo» CEO Ramil Ismagilov told about the prospects of using Netherlands technologies in Kazan. Multriwell and Trisoplast Mineral Liners are among the first residents of eco-park (total planned to have 35 residents). The Ecopark, which is created on the initiative of JSC "Kazan ecological complex", is positioned as the site for the interdependent enterprises producing consumer goods from waste products.

According to the «RIA Rating» agency Republic of Tatarstan rated as the one of the leading regions by quality of life. It is located in the fourth place.

Rating includes 61 indexes, which are combined into 10 groups, characterizing the main aspects of quality of life in the region. Among them: income level, housing conditions, availability of social infrastructure, environmental and climatic conditions, security, demographics, health and education, transport infrastructure, territory development level, level of economic and small business development.

The first positions in the ranking are given to Moscow and St. Petersburg, who are leaders by many aspects. The top ten also includes economically developed regions such as Moscow region, Tatarstan, Krasnodar, Belgorod, Voronezh region, Khanty-Mansi autonomous region – Yugra, Tyumen and Nizhny Novgorod regions.

At the discussion reviewed issues of Tatarstan medical products promotion to the other countries.

The meeting, which was held in Tatarstan Investment Development Agency (TIDA), was attended by TIDA Deputy Chief Executive Insaf Galiyev, Tatarstan Exports Corporation CEO Ayrat Nazmeev, Tatarstan Export Corporation First Deputy Aidar Abdrahmanov, Tatarstan Development Corporation CEO Bulat Gayanov, Tatarstan Chamber of Commerce Deputy Chairman Arthur Nikolaev, Tatarstan Export Support Center Chief Executive Vasily Chistyakov and the heads of several major medical companies.

During the discussion were presented Tatarstan investment opportunities and Smart City Kazan project, whose investment attractiveness is based on the cluster development of the territory and where medical cluster will be created.

In a joint conference in Moscow, organized by «Vedomosti» newspaper and the Strategic Initiatives Agency (ASI) discussed the results of the National entrepreneurial initiative «Improving the investment climate in the Russian Federation» (NPI) – Vladimir Putin's project to improve the business environment in the Russian Federation.

«100 steps to the favorable investment climate. Achievements and new challenges – 2013» conference was held after two years since Vladimir Putin’s initiative on implementation of the National entrepreneurial initiative. For the next two years Russian President defined a task to complete the NPI roadmaps implementation and create a comfortable business regulatory environment.

Event’s audience was very impressive: there participated government agencies, regional administration, controlling services, social movements, certification and standardization bodies’ representatives and businessmen – all those who can give critical appreciation of the work done and set goals for the future 2014 - 2015.