Mintimer Shaimiev met with Russian Information Technologies and Communication Minister Leonid Reiman
4 April 2008, Friday
April 4, Tatarstan President Mintimer Shaimiev met with Russian Minister of Information Technologies and Communication Leonid Reiman.
Valeri Bagaenko, the head of the Federal Agency for Communication, Ravil Muratov, the acting Prime Minister of the Republic of Tatarstan, Evgeny Grishin, the State Advisor to the RT President on economic issues, Farit Fazylzyanov, the Minister of Informatisation of the Republic of Tatarstan, and other officials also attended the meeting.
“The communication and information sector is the most dynamic among those in Russia today,” the Head of the republic said opening the meeting. Without your work we will not be able to make our country competitive at the global level.”
Mintimer Shaimiev also expressed his gratitude to Leonid Reiman for his support for republican initiatives on communication development at the federal level, for the help in implementation of a number of high-tech projects. He also marked that all the informatisation projects in Tatarstan should be leading in terms of efficiency given the republic’s high intellectual potential.
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.