Mintimer Shaimiev met with RF State Duma deputies form Tatarstan
14 December 2007, Friday
December 14, Tatarstan President Mintimer Shaimiev met with deputies of the fifth State Duma of the Russian Federation from Tatarstan.
The United Russia party won by a landslide in the parliamentary relations in Tatarstan (none of the 10 other parties gained seven percent of the vote). 14 members of the United Russia party in Tatarstan entered the Russian State Duma.
RT Prime-minister Rustam Minnikhanov, State Council Chairman Farid Mukhametshin, Chief of Staff of the RT President Yuri Kamaltynov, State Council Secretary Valentine Lipuzhina and other officials also attended the meeting at the Kazan Kremlin. 14 deputies from Tatarstan are Oleg Morozov, Rinat Gubaidullin, Airat Khairullin, Ildar Gilmutdinov, Alina Kabayeva,Fatih Sibagatullin, Aleksander Kozlovski, Irek boguslavski, Foat Komarov, Marat Zagidullov, Viktoria Cherkesova, Khafiz Salikhov, Gulnara Sergeyeva, Klavdia Novikova.
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.