The meeting of SCO-counties ministers of culture will held in Kazan
14 January 2009, Wednesday
Zilya Valeeva, Deputy Prime-Minister - Minister of Culture of the Republic of Tatarstan, met in Moscow with Alexey Shalashov, Director of the Department of Modern Art and International Relations of the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation.
Perspectives of international and inter-regional cooperation as well as the issues of interaction of the ministries was discussed during the meeting. The high emphasis was placed on the participation of Tatarstan in the 2010 events: Year of France in Russia and Year of Russia in France.
The preparation for the future meeting of the ministers of culture of the counties – members of Shanghai Cooperation Organisation which will be held in Kazan in April, was also discussed during the talks.
Press-service of the RT Ministry of Culture. January 14, 2009
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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