Tatarstan people will see French street theatre, Comedie Francaise and Dior exhibition
31 March 2009, Tuesday
RT Deputy Prime-minister - Minister of Culture Zilya Valeyeva told about plans of carrying out the Year of France in Russia.
According to her, it is expected that the plan of carrying out the Days of Culture of France in Russia and the Days of Culture of Russia in France that are to be conducted in 2010 should be confirmed in April.
In an interview, Zilya Valeyeva told journalists that the French street theatre will come to Tatarstan. "Performers will travel along the River Volga and visit several cities in Tatarstan. They will show what the French street theatre is like," she said.
The RT Minister of Culture also said that the oldest European theatre Comedie Francaise is planned to come to Kazan. Besides, a fashion show mainly focused on Dior will be opened.
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.
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