Tatarstan President Mintimer Shaimiev presented gifts and certificates to the winners of the Annual republican contest “The Woman of the Year. The Man of the Year: the woman’s view” at the traditional meeting of the head of the republic with women taking place in the Pyramid Convention Complex on March 6. As many as 1100 people attended the event.
Before the award ceremony, the RT President addressed the gathering with a warm greeting. “I have the only wish: that all the women – from young to older ones – were cloaked the atmosphere of love, respect and kindness. This is possible, it is in our hands.”
“You deserve to be loved. You are the source of life. Thanks to you we fill ourselves real men. Thank you very much for that”, the president said.
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.