International investment forum KAZANINVEST 2012: FDI&WAIPA was held yesterday in Kazan. Tatarstan Prime minister Ildar Khalikov took part in the opening ceremony. CEO of World Association of Investment Promotion Agencies (WAIPA) Carlos Branzatto is also present at the event.

Interview between Linar Yakupov, Chairman at Committee of the Republic of Tatarstan for the development of Small and Medium Enterprises, Chairman of KAZANSUMMIT Organizing Committee the and Nicolas Maletitch, CIS Agency France-Presse. The correspondent of islamic-finance.ru., Internet portal also took part in the interview.

"A Roadmap for Islamic Finance in Russia" should be designed as a document, which will become a visual presentation of the step by step development scenario of the Islamic finance in Russia.

The Islamic finance industry in the UK has gone from famine to feast in the past six months, according to one of the country's leading Islamic institutions.