Mintimer Shaimiev: And in the future we’ll concentrate on grain
6 October 2006, Friday
October 6 saw agricultural workers gathered together in Pyramid Convention Centre in Kazan to mark their professional holiday – the Day of Agriculture and Processing Industry.
President of Tatarstan Mintimer Shaimiev congratulated the gathering on the successful completion of the harvesting season.
The RT President believes that “care about protection and effective use of agricultural lands is the main task of the state and land users. Such attitude has helped us to increase agricultural output by one third, which is twice higher than Russian average”. As a result, “Tatarstan is fully provided with grain, grain forage, and it has an opportunity to sell to outside of the republic”.
Mintimer Shaimiev heartily thanked all workers of the agricultural complex and the RT Agriculture and Industry Ministry and its head.
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.