Mintimer Shaimiev congratulated young guests of Tatarstan’s main New Year Tree party
27 December 2007, Thursday
December 27, Tatarstan President Mintimer Shaimiev congratulated the young guests of the republican New Year Tree party held in the Basket-hall.
As many as 5500 young people of Tatarstan – 7-11-grade students, school activists, A-students, winners of festivals and sport competitions, as well as 2 thousand school age children from Tatarstan cities and districts got together for the main New Year Tree Party of the republic.
President Shaimiev congratulated the guests and send his congratulations to teachers and parents of the little guests. He also reminded that the coming year was announced the Year of the Family. “The family is we, our friends and relatives. We love you very much. You accomplished a lot this year. I would like to wish you to learn well, be proactive and bring joy to us all. Whatever we undertake, we succeed. Buldyrabyz! We can! Success! Good luck!” Mintimer Shaimiev said.
Together with the President, Chief of Staff of the President Yuri Kamaltynov, Deputy Prime-minister – Minister of Culture Zilya Valeyeva, Deputy Chairman of the State Council Rimma Ratnikova and other officials attended the event.
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.