Mintimer Shaimiev met with Consul General of Vietnam in Yekaterinburg
17 January 2008, Thursday
January 17, Tatarstan President Mintimer Shaimiev received Consul General of the Social Republic of Vietnam in Yekaterinburg Dr. Le Quy Quynh in his official residence at the Kazan Kremlin.
Dr. Le Quy Quynh was appointed Consul General of Vietnam in Yekaterinburg last fall. Yesterday, the diplomat met with RT Deputy State Council Chairman Rimma Ratnikova, Head of the Federal Migration Service in Tatarstan Evgeniy Davletshin and had a tour of the Kazan Kremlin. He is also to meet with heads of Vietnamese companies, visit Kazan State University, the House of People’s Friendship where the exhibition of Vietnamese artists will be opened tomorrow.
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.