President continues his working trip to south-eastern Tatarstan
15 February 2008, Friday
February 15 is seeing President of Tatarstan Mintimer Shaimiev visiting the Yutaza district in the south-eastern part of Tatarstan.
The agenda includes a visit to the local sports complex where the head of the republic will examine a swimming pool and a track and field arena; he will also visit an exhibition of district enterprises and will meet investors of ZAO "TGK Urusinskaya GRES".
The President of Tatarstan is also planned to see a 60-apartment building built under the social mortgage program. The head of the republic will finish his trip attending the meeting of the Yutaza Council where achievements in social and economic development of the district last year will be discussed.
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.