RT President, Mintimer Shaimiev, Began the 2-day Working Visit to the Nizhnekamsk Region and Yelabuga
30 July 2008, Wednesday
The RT President, Mintimer Shaimiev, began a 2-day visit to the Nizhnekamsk Region and Yelabuga on July 30.
On the same day the President took part in various ceremonies: opening ceremony of the “Olympia” ice palace in Kamskie Polyany and a festive delivery of keys to government funded apartments to state-financed workers, large families, the disabled, and WWII veterans in Nizhnekamsk.
July 31, the RT President, Mintimer Shaimiev, will take part in a meeting with the republican State Council to discuss questions concerning charitable work, strengthening the institution of family, and the development of family values following the example of the Nizhnekamsk Municipal Region’s Council for the coordination of charitable work.
On the same day, the RT Cabinet of Minister will have a visiting session in Yelabuga dedicated to the results brought in by industrial enterprises of the republic in the 1st half of 2008, which will include the presence of the RT President.
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.