President of Tatarstan has presented state awards at the Kremlin
27 November 2007, Tuesday
November 27, Tatarstan President Mintimer Shaimiev presented state awards to as many as 57 representatives of various professions – heads of municipal districts, turners, actors, teachers, researchers, ecologists and journalists at the Kremlin’s White Hall.
“Today, this hall is the meeting place for people who continue working in any economic circumstances thanks to their diligence and talents and do that in a way that makes the republic feel proud of them”, with these words Mintimer Shaimiev started his speech.
Having noted that the meeting was taking place before a very important event for the country – the elections to the fifth State Duma, the RT President underlined that he did not doubt those present had already made their choice. “We tried to explain to the people that we want to uphold the existing course of the country’s development. That is true we haven’t left anyone behind yet, but we sought and found ways of going through the crisis. The life is improving every day. And today we have no other way or other course. I believe that the people of Tatarstan know what they should be guided by, they can make their choice”, the Tatarstan President said.
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.