8 Tatarstan-born Olympians awarded Russian orders and medals
4 August 2009, Tuesday
The President of Russia Dmitry Medvedev has signed a decree giving state awards to 128 Russian nationals, prize winners at the 29th Olympic Games in Beijing.
The head of state’s official website provides a list of the awardees that includes 8 Tatarstanians.
According to the decree, Elvira Khasyanova is awarded the Order of Honour, Gulnara Galkina Samitova, Vadim Khamutskikh and Daria Shkurikhina the Order of Friendship, Alexander Kosarev and Sergei Tetuykhin medals of the order For Service to Fatherland of the 1st degree, Yekaterina Volkova and Yelena Migunova a medal of the order For Service to Fatherland of the 2nd degree.
Of the 23 gold awards won by the Russian national team at the Beijing Olympics, 3 Olympics gold medals are held by sportsmen representing Tatarstan. Besides, the Tatarstan representatives on the Russian team won 1 silver and 2 bronze awards.
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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