BRIC International Competition Conference has started in Kazan
1 September 2009, Tuesday
The BRIC International Competition Conference was opened at the Korston Hotel in Kazan on September 1st. Deputy Chairman of the Russian Government Igor Shuvalov and Tatarstan President Mintimer Shaimiev took part in the conference.
The international conference is organized by the Federal Antimonopoly Service of the Russian Federation together with respective agencies of Brazil, India and China and with the support of the Russian Government.
The conference is the first event of the kind in the competition sphere involving the BRIC countries and dedicated to topical issues of development of competition in the rapidly developing economies. Opportunity to exchange best world practices will allow representatives of the BRIC countries and other participants to harmonize principles of competitive policy implantation and determine further steps of its development contributing to the economic progress.
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.