Kazan is ready to host the world track-and-field junior championship among the
27 October 2009, Tuesday
The world track-and-field championship among juniors might be held in Kazan in 2012. According to the Tatarstan Minister of Youth, Sport and Tourism, Marat Bariev, who told about it at a briefing on October 26, the proposal was received during the “Russia – Sports State” forum.
Marat Bariev also said that the President of the International Athletics Associations Federation (IAAF) made a proposal to hold the 14th world championship in Kazan during his visit to our capital.
The world championship among juniors is held once in two years. It will take place for the 13th time in 2010 in Monkton, Canada.
According to Mr. Bariev, the IAAF head offered to establish an athletics centre in Kazan under the aegis of the leading international sports organization. There are only 9 IAAF regional centres of track-and-field development in the world and one of them is situated in Moscow.
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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