The international basketball tournament among the wheelchair-bound invalids to start in Kazan
21 October 2009, Wednesday
The basketball cup among the wheelchair-bound invalids starts on the 21st of October in Kazan in the framework of the I "Russia - Sports State" forum. The basketball competitions, which will take place in the "Olympus" sports complex, will bring together 2 teams from St. Petersburg - "The Basques" and "The Nevsky Alliance”, from Moscow, Tyumen, Kazan, Chelyabinsk, Lithuania, Ukraine and Belarus. The grand opening of the cup competition will be held on the 23rd of October, at 10 o'clock. The leading teams’ contest will take place on the 24th of October, and the games for the prize-winning places – on the 25th of October, the press service MDMST RT informs.
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.