Mintimer Shaimiev: the conditions for carrying out major repairs are unprecedented
28 April 2008, Monday
A video conferenced enlarged meeting of the Tatarstan Government devoted to implementation of the Federal Law on the Foundation for reorganizing housing and communal services was held in the RT Cabinet of Ministers on April 28. Tatarstan President Mintimer Shaimiev attended the meeting.
"We have always been doing a lot to resolve housing issues, but today's meeting is devoted to the activity new for us in terms of scale - major housing repairs. We did it in that or other degree, but it did not have an effect evident for people," the head of republic noted opening the meeting.
Mintimer Shaimiev emphasized that major repairs should become one of mainstreams in the work of the Tatarstan Government. "Each house needs to be examined. It is for the first time that the state gives such means. We are short of time," he 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.