Tatarstan President meets with a delegation of ZF Friedrichshafen AG
22 August 2007, Wednesday
August 22, Tatarstan President Mintimer Shaimiev received a delegation of Zahnradfabrik Friedrichshafen AG headed by Wolfgang Vogel, member of the board, executive vice-president of the company.
Prospects of cooperation of OAO KAMAZ and ZF Friedrichshafen AG were discussed at the meeting.
OOO ZF Kama, a joint venture of OAO KAMAZ and ZF Friedrichshafen AG, opened in November 2005, becoming the first plant that was created making use of KAMAZ’s facilities with foreign participation and producing output under its brand name.
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.