Mintimer Shaimiev congratulated Tatarstan winners of the Beijing Olympics 2008

18 August 2008, Monday
The President of the Republic of Tatarstan, Mintimer Shaimiev, congratulated Tatarstan athletes Gulnara Galkina-Samitova and Ekaterina Volkova on winning gold and bronze medals in the Beijing Olympics 2008 in women’s steeplechase 3000m. 

Mintimer Shaimiev sent a greeting message to Gulnara Galkina-Samitova which reads: “I congratulate you heartily on your splendid victory in the Beijing Olympics 2008 on behalf of the Tatarstan people. It is a long awaited winning for Tatarstan and Russia the flags of which you carried at the Beijing stadium.”

President’s press service reports that Mintimer Shaimiev also congratulated Ekaterina Volkova on success.

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