The World Economic Forum’s founder Klaus Schwab will in June 2009 visit the Tatarstan’s capital Kazan. The Prime Minister of Tatarstan Roustam Minnikhanov and Klaus Schwab agreed on it at a meeting on 28 January in Davos.
Roustam Minnikhanov is attending the World Economic Forum in Davos as a member of the Russian delegation.
The meeting between the Tatar premier and Klaus Schwab was held on the latter’s initiative. Attendee at the meeting was the oil producer’s Tatneft’s CEO Shafgat Takhautdinov, reports the Tatarstan cabinet of ministers’s press service.
According to the aide to the Tatarstan prime minister on external economic affairs Iskander Muflikhanov, Klaus Schwab expressed willingness to visit Tatarstan in June and to see the Tatar folk festival Sabantui.
Mr Schwab’s previous visit to Tatarstan was on 12-13 September last year.
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.
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