The solemn opening ceremony of the Festival of Korean Culture took place in Kazan on June 6 at G.Kamal Tatar State academy Theatre. The Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Korea Lee Kyu Hyung arrived in Kazan on this occasion.
Lee Kyu Hyung greeted the festival guests and said that it was a pleasure for him to be in Kazan – the city with rich history, the city where outstanding figures of the world culture used to live. “Russian and Korean nations are united by love and respect to culture,” he said.
Masters of the republic of Kores State academy of Traditional Music and Dancing performed at G.Kamal Theatre that night. Korea’s representative also brought cinema to Kazan – four films to be demonstrated at ‘Organik’ cinema theatre.
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.