Over 100 stars of Russia’s Channel One, popular artists and sportsmen arrived at the international airport ‘Kazan’ on board of TU-154M in the morning on June 1.
Tatarstan State Council Chairman Farid Mukhametshin, Tatarstan Deputy Prime Minister – Minister of Culture Zilya Valeyeva, chief of the Republican Agency for Press and Mass Communication Tatmedia Marat Muratov, State Advisor to the Tatarstan President on social issues Tatyana Larionova and other officials welcomed the guests at the airport.
Among the popular hosts of Channel One visiting the Tatarstan capital are Aleksander Gordon, Andrei Malakhov, Yekaterina Strizhenova, Larisa Verbitskaya, Maxim Shevchenko, Arina Sharapova, Boris Berman, Ildar Zhandarev, Igor Kvasha, Mikhail Shirvint, Nikolai Drozdov, Leonid Yakubovich, commentator Viktor Gusev. Olympic champions Maria Kiseleva and Svetlana Khorkina, artists Anita Tzoi, Yulia Kovalchuk, Mark Tishman, popular youth groups and many other performers.
Popular TV hosts and performers arrived in Kazan for the International Children’s Day. They are to take part in charity campaigns, visit orphanages and medical institutions, hold master classes and perform at Tatneft-Arena.
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.