On 9 June 2015, the Tatarstan Ministry of Industry and Trade hosted the meeting between Tatarstan Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Industry and Trade Ravil Zaripov and business community from Finland headed by Vesa Vasara, Deputy Director General of the Department for Russia, Eastern Europe, and Central Asia from the Finnish Ministry for Foreign Affairs. During the meeting and the session of the joint working group, the parties discussed the present state and promising areas of bilateral cooperation, exchanged ideas, and took part in B2B meetings.