Russian First Deputy Prime-minister Dmitri Medvedev has arrived in Kazan
21 February 2008, Thursday
February 21, First Deputy Prime-minister of the Russian Federation Dmitri Medvedev arrived in Kazan. Tatarstan President Mintimer Shaimiev, Prime-minister Rustam Minnikhanov, RF Presidential envoy in the Volga Federal District Aleksander Konovalov and other officials met him at the airport.
Dmitri Medvedev visited gymnasium No 19 where he saw sport facilities complex. He is also to take part in the meeting on issues of development of physical culture and sport in Russia taking place at the Korston complex.
Then, Dmitri Medvedev will attend the Second All-Russia Forum ‘Russia, go ahead!’ at the Ice Palace Tatneft-arena.
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.