Defence industry

• 28 July, 09:00 Tatarstan at MAKS 2021: EMERCOM purchases Mil Mi-38, and Minnikhanov asks price for Ural's Baikal At the International Aviation and Space Salon, Tatarstan managed to sign contracts worth 43 billion, show the improved Ansat and make friends with the Volga-Dnepr Group
• 25 February, 09:00 Russia brings Armata and Viking to 2021 IDEX conference The exhibition in Abu Dhabi: from Kalashnikov to Ak Bars
• 11 September, 09:00 Rostec orders machine tools from Tatarstan defence plants for 6bn The Russian machine tool manufacturer STAN has opened a window to Tatarstan signing new contracts for 2020

• 03 June, 09:00 ‘This money should be returned to us in the form of tax’ The Kremlin wants metal producers to pay for extra profits
• 25 September, 09:00 Russia puts more social-oriented budget forward Spending on state-backed industries may surpass defence spending for the first time since 2014
• 04 June, 09:00 Nikolay Kolesov purchases KETZ from Rostec for nearly 600m rubles Rostec sold 42,6% of shares of Kazan Electrotechnical Plant due to the impossibility of getting control in this enterprise

• 10 April, 09:00 ‘To stop a factory now is to be sent to the scaffold later’: defence factories focusing on defence Defence enterprises during the non-working days: Kazan Optical-Mechanical Plant is on holiday until 10 May, others are working part-time going by shuttles
• 04 February, 09:00 ‘If you drank water, you should throw the bottle away somewhere’: reverse vending machines to be tested in Kazan Sergey Chemezov and Rustam Minnikhanov have launched a pilot separate waste collection project
• 18 November, 09:00 Kazan multipurpose helicopter Mi-38 flies to be premiered in Emirates The future of Kazan Helicopters depends on the machine’s success, but it won’t have an easy victory, independent experts warn

• 14 February, 09:00 UAC increases its capital to 390bn rub for re-equipment of aviation industry Kazan Aircraft Production Association is going to join Rostec, which means Chemezov will control almost half of the defence industry of the Republic of Tatarstan
• 20 January, 09:00 Renat Mistakhov: “It was said about the third pair of Gepard-class frigates for Vietnam, but there's nothing so far” Tatarstan shipbuilders have suspended negotiations with ASEAN navy, aiming for a deep modernization of the frigate
• 11 November, 09:00 Larry Vickers: “Kalashnikov's scale likely will never be seen again” Retired American special forces veteran is fascinated by the invention of the Soviet weapon designer