August 10, RT President Mintimer Shaimiev attended the ceremony of laying the first stone in the foundation of the Ice Palace being built in Zainsk, Tatarstan.
Speaking at the ceremony, the head of the republic marked the achievements Zainsk had made over the recent years.
Talking about the traditional August pedagogical conference being held in Zainsk, Mintimer Shaimiev said that “people of Zainsk have what to show to teachers of the republic”. The President believes that the most important thing is “to allow the children of Tatarstan have competitive personalities”.
Emphasizing the importance of building the Ice Palace in Zainsk, RT President said that “the development of all sports is the modern ideology of society”. “Children need to apply their energy at sports ground”, he said.
RT Prime Minister Rustam Minnikhanov, Chief of Staff of the RT President Yuri Kamaltynov, RT Education and Science Minister Nail Valeyev, Head of the Zainsk district Rinat Fardiev also attended the ceremony.
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.