Tatarstan will actively develop cultural cooperation with Egypt
17 November 2009, Tuesday
Tatarstan will actively develop cultural cooperation with Egypt. Such an agreement was reached within the framework of the visit to this Arabic country of Deputy Prime-Minister of the Republic of Tatarstan – Minister of Culture Zilya Valeeva.
The reason of Deputy-Prime-Minister’s visit to Egypt was an invitation to the 33rd Cairo International Film Festival, in the course of which the traditional meeting of the presidents of well-known Film Forums took place. Zilya Valeeva took part in this meeting too.
Zilya Valeeva invited Minister of Culture of Egypt Farouk Hosni to Tatarstan. In Cairo ministers discussed the possibility to exchange exhibitions of artists. Within the framework of the meeting parties agreed to prepare concrete proposals on tour of groups and joint projects in coming year 2010.
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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