Mintimer Shaimiev: "I am happy to see outstanding sons of our country"
25 March 2008, Tuesday
This week, Kazan was honoured with a visit by Roald and Renad Sagdeyevs, the outstanding Russian scientists famous for their works in plasma phisics, space research and chemical physics. Tatarstan President Mintimer Shaimiev met with the academicians on March 25.
Deputy Chief of Staff of the President Bulat Zinnurov, President of the RT Academy of Sciences Akhmet Mazgarov, Director of Institute of Physics and Engineering of the Kazan Research Centre of the Russian Academy of Sciences Kev Salikhov, Rector of Kazan State University Myakzyum Salakhov and Chairman of the Executive Committee of the World Congress of Tatars Rinat Zakirov took part in the meeting.
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.