Mintimer Shaimiev: Sozvezdie is a national project of multinational Tatarstan
28 April 2008, Monday
The final gala concert of the 8th open republican television youth festival of variety art "Sozvezdie – Yoldyzlyk” (Constellation) took place in the Pyramid Convention Complex on April 28. Tatarstan President Mintimer Shaimiev took part in the award ceremony.
"I have nothing to say after what I saw. Your talent won my heart," Mintimer Shaimiev expressed how impressed he was after the gala concert. "Many thanks to parents, tutors, teachers and all those who work with you. Thank you for not refusing doing that. Well done!" the President told the participants of the festival.
The project Sozvezdie has really become a national project for multinational Tatarstan. We are conducting the festival for the eighth time, and each year its content has been getting more complex. Owing to common efforts our children make more and more achievements,” 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.