Kazan to host several students’ championships of Europe in 2010
6 October 2009, Tuesday
Two European championships among students will be held in Kazan – the Universaiade-2013 capital in summer of 2010.
European championships in table tennis (obligatory sport at the Universiade) and beach volleyball (a sport Kazan Universiade organizers want to include in the additional sports programme) will be held in June of the next year in Kazan.
According to information provided by Tatarstan Youth, Sport and Tourism Ministry, 4 sets of medals will be competed for in individual rating, team rating and pairs at European table-tennis championship under the aegis of FISU. Europe championship in volleyball among students will assemble at least 7 men’s and women’s teams.
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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