President of Tatarstan and Prime-minister of Saxony signed a communique
22 May 2006, Monday
On 22nd of May Mintimer Shaimiev, President of Tatarstan met in Kazan Kremlin with Georg Milbradt, Prime-minister of Free State of Saxony, who arrived in the republic last Sunday on May 21 at the head of representative business delegation.
During today’s meeting parties agreed to develop mutually beneficial partnership between Tatarstan and Saxony in the field of motor industry, mechanical engineering, petrochemical industry. For these purpose it is planned in particular to use the opportunity of industrial Free Economic Zone "Alabuga" in Elabuga Municipal District, as well as to create conditions for small and medium business for transfer of high technologies, deliveries of equipment, development of different forms of cooperation in the territory of Free State of Saxony and Tatarstan.
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.