State Council to discuss issue of vesting R. Minnikhanov with presidential authority
29 January 2010, Friday
The Republic of Tatarstan State Council session, when the issue of vesting Rustam Minnikhanov with Tatarstan President authority will be discussed, has been scheduled for February 4.
A decision about it was made at the State Council Presidium session held by RT State Council Deputy Chairman Alexander Gusev today, January 29.
On January 27, Russia President Dmitry Medvedev proposed candidacy of Rustam Minnikhanov for vesting him with authority of Tatarstan President.
“United Russia” political party nominated three candidates for the post of the Republic of Tatarstan President in the end of December - the republic’s Prime Minister Rustam Minnikhanov, Tatarstan State Council Chairman Farid Mukhametshin, and incumbent President of Tatarstan Mintimer Shaimiev.
On January 22, Mintimer Shaimiev met with Dmitry Medvedev and made a request not to consider the issue of prolonging his presidential term, which expires on March 25.
On 20 January in the evening Russian President Vladimir Putin called Tatarstan State Counselor Mintimer Shaimiev and congratulated him with his birthday. During the conversation Vladimir Putin stated that he is happy to hear bright voice of Mintimer (Sharipovich) and wished him good health and all the best.
On 20 January, congratulating Tatarstan State Counselor Mintimer Shaimiev with his birthday, the Chairman of the Russian Government Mikhail Mishustin wrote in his telegramme: “Being a famous and political leader, you have made a substantial contribution into modern development of Tatarstan and have earned the deep respect and gratitude of residents of the republic.
On January 20, the First President of Tatarstan, State Counsellor of the republic Mintimer Shaimiev celebrates its 89 birthday.
He received numerous congratulations from the state and regional leaders, public figures, figures in science, education and culture and residents of the country and Tatarstan.
On 16 October in the Kazan Kremlin Tatarstan State Counselor Mintimer Shaymiev, who is also the Chairman of the Trustees Council of the regional Revival Fund, had a meeting with the Director General of the State Hermitage Mikhail Piotrovsky, who came to Kazan to take part in a ceremony of opening a new exposition “The Yusupovs. Luxury across the Centuries” at the Hermitage Kazan Exposition Center and which has been prepared especially for the 20th anniversary of the Hermitage’s first representational centre established in 2005 by celebrations of the Kazan Millennium.
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