With the holiday of Christmas!
8 January 2002, Tuesday
President of Tatarstan Mintimer Shaimiev congratulated the residents of the republic professing orthodoxy, with the Christmas holiday and wished all good luck, well-being and long years of life.
The president noted, that this holiday marks for the Christians of all the world the beginning of the new era - the era of good, mercy and brotherly love.
Orthodox religion professed during centuries by the representatives of many peoples of our multinational republic, equally l with Islam and other traditional religions, is today a cementing moral factor of interethnic and inter-confessional consent. Having entered in new - the third - millenium according to Christian calendar with hopes for peaceful co-existence, all of us, irrespective of the social, national and religious belonging are obliged to use our best efforts for its maintenance and development.
The president noted, that this holiday marks for the Christians of all the world the beginning of the new era - the era of good, mercy and brotherly love.
Orthodox religion professed during centuries by the representatives of many peoples of our multinational republic, equally l with Islam and other traditional religions, is today a cementing moral factor of interethnic and inter-confessional consent. Having entered in new - the third - millenium according to Christian calendar with hopes for peaceful co-existence, all of us, irrespective of the social, national and religious belonging are obliged to use our best efforts for its maintenance and development.
The newspaper "Republic Tatarstan", January, 5, 2002.
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