A briefing was held in May at the premises of the Tatarstan's Economy Ministry with a focus on Tatarstan's participation in the free-for-all tender for establishing special port economic zones (SPEZ)
On 07 June 2008 was announced, that the project work on the construction of the central ring road [TsKAD] around Moscow set to make the MKAD less busy is to be completed in 2009 and roughly $375 million has been allocated for this purpose
