Tatarstan President is on working visit to St. Petersburg
4 June 2009, Thursday
Tatarstan President is on a working visit to Saint Petersburg on June 4 and 5.
On June 4th, Mintimer Shaimiev is to meet with St. Petersburg Governor Valentina Matvienko at the Smolny Palace. The meeting will be followed by the signing ceremony of the Agreement between the Republic of Tatarstan and the city of St. Petersburg on trade and economic, scientific and technical, social and cultural cooperation.
The main item on the agenda on June 5th is the President’s participation in the opening of the 13th St. Petersburg International Economic Forum and the plenary session "Global economic crisis: first lessons and leading the way forward."
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.