RT President met with Head of Frontier Service of the Russian Federal Security Service
25 March 2008, Tuesday
March 25, Tatarstan President Mintimer Shaimiev met with Deputy Head of the Frontier Service of the Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation Vladimir Streltsov and Head of the regional frontier directorate of the RF FSS in the Volga Federal District Viktor Gubenko.
Как сообщил по окончании беседы В.Стрельцов, в ходе встречи стороны обсудили ход проведения в течение двух дней в столице Татарстана акции "Граница - честь, долг, Отечество". Она проводится впервые и приурочена к 90-летию со дня образования Пограничных войск России, которое будет отмечаться 28 мая 2008 года.
After the meeting, Vladimir Streltsov said that at the meeting they had discussed the course of the action “Frontier – honour, duty, Fatherland” being conducted in Kazan for two days for the first time. It is dated to the 90th anniversary of the frontier troops of Russia that will take place on May 28, 2008.
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.