Germany embassy minister meets with Tatarstan deputy industry and trade minister
26 February 2009, Thursday
The Tatarstan deputy industry and trade minister Linar Latypov has met with the regional plenipotentiary of the Embassy of Germany in Russia, minister Joerg Kirsch.
The purpose of the visit to Tatarstan is to investigate the present condition and prospects for cooperation between Tatarstan and Germany on all the main areas, including commerce and economy. The attendees discussed possible expansion of cooperation.
According to the ministry’s press service, Linar Latypov held a presentation of Tatarstan’s economic and investment potential. He noted that FRG was an active economic partner of Tatarstan, ranking 8th among its top 100 trading allies. In 2008, trade between Tatarstan and Germany was 540.4 million euros.
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.
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