The plane with Boris Gryzlov, the Chairman of the Russian State Duma, and Aleksei Gordeyev, the Russian Minister of Agriculture, on board arrived in the Tatarstan capital in the morning of October 19.
RT President Mintimer Shaimiev, Prime-minister Rustam Minnikhanov, Deputy Prime-minister – Minister of Agriculture Marat Akhmetov, Deputy Chairman of the RT State Council met the guests at the airport.
The programme of the visit is focused on biofuel production. Right after their arrival, the guests headed for the village of Usady, Laishevo district, Tatarstan where they were to attend the opening of the Kazan oil-extraction plant.
Later on, Mintimer Shaimiev, Boris Gryzlov and Aleksei Kudrin are to take part in the meeting dedicated to “the development of biofuel industry in Russia” in Kazan State University.
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.