“Just recently, we hadn’t even thought that there would be such facilities…”

At a meeting with the current president of the republic, Vladimir Putin awarded the Medal of Pyotr Stolypin to former president of Tatarstan Mintimer Shaimiyev.

"Multi-child families should be the most valued, and families with two or three children are the preferred social norm. We have to end the situation where the birth of a child causes a family financial difficulties or pushes them to the edge of poverty".

“KamAZ has regained its pre-crisis output numbers and has gone on to achieve a whole new level of quality. The plant is the leader among other Russian automakers, accounting for 40% of sales nationwide.”

A focus of the meeting was extensive upgrades of armaments, in particular, of the T-72 tank, which, as the prime minister put it, “will actually raise its quality to that of the T-90.” However, the prime minister said, “We need to move on to completely new products, to next-generation equipment.” The defence minister reported on the signing of aviation and naval contracts to 2020.