Sport ministers of Russian regions to gather in Kazan
19 October 2009, Monday
Sport executive from all regions of the Russian Federation will participate in the first national-wide sports forum ‘Russia - Country of Sports’, which is to take place in Kazan on October 22-25.
Governors of 12 Russian regions, among whom are Moscow Region Governor Boris Gromov, St. Petersburg Governor Valentina Matvienko, Bryansk Region Governor Nikolai Demin, and Smolensk Region Governor Sergei Antufyev, etc., have confirmed their participation in the forum. Other regions of the Russian Federation will be represented by senior officials in charge of sports, the RT Ministry of Youth, Sport and Tourism reports.
As part of the forum, heads of regional sport department will inspect sport facilities including the Central Stadium, FC Rubin boarding sport-school, Ak Bars Single Combats Palace, Universiade Village and the Tennis Academy.
The key event of the forum will be the All-Russia seminar-meeting of heads of executive bodies in physical culture and sport held as part of the sport forum. Tatarstan Minister of Youth, Sport and Tourism Marat Bariev will also take part in it.
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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