President of Tatarstan takes part in celebrating Days of culture of the republic in Kirov oblast
9 March 2006, Thursday
Today RT President Mintimer Shaimiev is going take part in celebrating Days of Tatarstan culture in the Kirov oblast «Tatarstan - Vyatka: we - united Russia» which are under way in the city of Vyatskiye Polyany.
Within the framework of the planned actions, March 1 – 4, the performances of the creative collectives Baltasinsky, Arsky, Kukmorsky regions of the republic took place in Kilmezsky, Malmyzhsky and Vyatsko-Polyansky regions of the Kirov oblast, performance of the state ensemble of songs and dance of RT in Kirov is also on the program.
Today the working meeting of RT President Mintimer Shaimiev with the governor of the Kirov oblast Nikolai Shaklein, business meeting with management of local branches and activists of political party «United Russia» are planned with participation of heads of the regions, signing of the Cooperation agreement is intended in the field of culture between the RT Ministry of culture and Department of culture and art of the Kirov oblast.
The concert of leading art workers and creative collectives of Tatarstan will take place in the second half of day in the city recreation center "Pobeda" upon end of which Mintimer Shaimiev and Nikolai Shaklein will give press conference.
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.