Mintimer Shaimiev took part in the celebrations of the 30th anniversary of the King Faisal International Prize
11 March 2008, Tuesday
In the evening of March 9, the President of the Republic of Tatarstan, Mintimer Shaimiev, attended the celebrations of the 30th anniversary of the King Faisal International Prize. At the dinner, the President of the republic of Tatarstan met with King of Saudi Arabia Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz Al Saud.
The King Faisal International Prize is a kind of a Nobel Prize for the Islamic world. The King Faisal Foundation awards prizes in: Service to Islam; Islamic studies; Arabic Language and literature; Science; Medicine. As many as 196 from 138 countries became laureates of the prize over 30 years.
Tatarstan President Mintimer Shaimiev is the first Russian who was awarded the prize.
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.