Mintimer Shaimiev is the winner of Tatarstan Presidential Elections
28 March 2001, Wednesday
The victory of Mintimer Shaimiev on the elections in Tatarstan does not rise any doubts. According to data received of 13.30 p.m. on March 26 by Central Election Committee of Tatarstan, Mintimer Shaimiev gained 79,52 %.
Deputy of RF State Duma FS RF Sergey Shashurin and received -5,78%, and deputy of RF State Duma FS RF Ivan Grachev - 5,47%, Leader of Local Communist Party Robert Sadykov - 4,43% and First Deputy of the Head of administration of Zelenodolsky district Alexander Fedotov - 0,49% of voices. 2,84 % of voters were against all candidates. Altogether 79,39% of voters, entered in the lists, took part in the voting.
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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