Within the framework of the ongoing reform of control and supervision activities, as well as the relevance of competition development measures affecting the rating of heads of regions, the Ministry of Economy of the Republic of Tatarstan conducted training for civil servants and municipal employees at the Kazan (Volga) Federal University on 18 to19 December 2017 under "Standard of Competition Development in Constituent Entities of the Russian Federation" Program. The training was held within the course on promoting competition in government agencies.