Economy

• Investments 15 April, 09:00 Ministry of Economic Development starts thinking about participation of pension funds in ventures The Russian Venture Forum organised by the Investment and Venture Fund of the Republic of Tatarstan ends in Kazan
• Finance 12 April, 09:00 Rise in retail lending: if lending boom might be attenuated After a five-year fall in real income, Russians owe banks 15 trillion rubles
• Banks 11 April, 09:00 Natalia Orlova: ''With the imposition of sanctions, banks’ external debt has shrank twice'' The chief economist, head of Alfa-Bank’s Macroeconomic Analysis Centre on long-term influence of sanctions against Russia and the world market

• 15 April, 09:00 BI Group, the construction leader of Kazakhstan, to open a branch in Tatarstan and plans to work with TAIF The delegation of top managers of BI Group holding visited the main office of TAIF PSC and met with the management of the group of companies during a working trip to Tatarstan
• Finance 12 April, 09:00 Marat Galeev to Talgat Abdullin: ''You overestimate those who work in the executive branch'' Khimgrad has received federal support of 500 million rubles for the national project
• 09 April, 09:00 ''The government is too greedy to renounce its share in fuel price'' Experts are very skeptical about the new agreement between the authorities and the oil industry and predict street protests

• Banks 08 April, 09:00 We won’t create a new world: authorities’ measures to cancel ''wage slavery'' don’t impress everyone Some consider the measures offered by the government insufficient, others – unilateral
• Banks 04 April, 09:00 ''Ford Sollers has been under great pressure in the last years. This brought to underutilisation of production capacities and inadequate payback of investments'' Having closed factories in Russia, the company hopes to ‘‘create a more competitive and profitable business model’’
• Finance 01 April, 09:00 Cross-border money transfers: Samara piled with foreign money, while Tatarstan goes on sending money Russians got $2 billion as salary from abroad and transfer their money to other countries

• Investments 04 April, 09:00 Great Volga Road to drive out Golden Ring? Tatarstan offers tourists its own route The republic has been on the federal programme on tourism development and is a candidate to get investments equal to a billion a year
• Budget 02 April, 09:00 ''Nobody benefited from the petrol price freeze, including car owners'' Why collect 250bn rubles of excise on fuel is a wrong approach
• Banks 01 April, 09:00 First new bank in four years launched in Russia