Tatarstan President Mintimer Shaimiev meets with academician Oleg Sinyashin
21 May 2008, Wednesday
President of the Republic of Tatartsan Mintimer Shaimiev met with newly-elected Chairman of Kazan Science Center of Russian Academy of Science, academician Oleg Sinyashin on May 20.
The head of the republic congratulated Oleg Sinyashin on his election for this high post – chief of one of the oldest regional scientific centers of Russian Academy of Science. He wished the academician fruitful work, as the press-service of Tatarstan President reports.
Up-to-day issues of Kazan Scientific Center of Russian Academy of Science were discussed at the meeting. Using Kazan center as a large complex of academic institutes, which is well-known for its discoveries and achievements, for innovative development of the country was considered.
Main condition of innovative process is implementation of scientific research results into real economy. Kazan Scientific Center, Tatarstan Academy of Science, higher education institutions, and new innovative infrastructure and investment funds, enterprises of the republic should make joint efforts in this direction.
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.