SCO ministers will attend the Yolduzlyk Festival 2009
14 April 2009, Tuesday
The opening of the Sozvezdie - Yoldyzlyk 2009 Festival is going to take place at the Unics Complex on April 15. Performers from Tatarstan's neighboring regions will take part in the event on its first day.
The aim of the festival is to support young gifted people of Tatarstan. Participants and winners of the Festival are considered to be successors of cultural and spiritual heritage of the republic.
The Festival was conferred a title of the laureate of the Republican Musa Jalil Prize.
Among the guests of the Festival will be ministers of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization member-countries.
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.
On 28 August the Rais (Head) of Tatarstan Rustam Minnikhanov and the State Counselor of the republic Mintimer Shaimiev took part in a plenary session of the National Assembly of the World Tatar Congress held with participation of about 1 thousand delegates from 68 regions of Russia and 27 foreign countries in the Tatar State Opera and Ballet Theatre in Kazan’
On 20 June the Rais (Head) of Tatarstan Rustam Minnikhanov and the State Counselor of the republic Mintimer Shaimiev attended horse races held at the International Equestrian Complex in Kazan and dedicated to Kazan Sabantuy.
On 6 June the Rais (Head) of Tatarstan Rustam Minnikhanov and the State Counselor of the republic Mintimer Shaimiev laid flowers to the monument of the Great Russian poet Aleksandr Pushkin by the Jalil State Opera and Ballet Theatre in Kazan.