Tatarstan President met with participants of 4th Meeting of International Discussion Club Valdai
10 September 2007, Monday
September 10, Tatarstan President Mintimer Shaimiev met with participants of 4th International Discussion Club Valdai at the Representative building in the Kazan Kremlin.
The International Discussion Club Valdai was created in September 2004 on the initiative of RIA Novosti, the Council for foreign and defence policy, newspaper The Moscow Times, magazines Russia v globalnoi politike (in global politics) and Russia profile. The first meeting in 2004 was held in Valdai, one of the most picturesque places in Russia, it gave name to the club.
Club’s meetings have been held annually in September.
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.