Today President of Tatarstan Mintimer Shaimiev delivered annual Address to State Council of RT
3 March 2006, Friday
Today at the 22nd session of the RT State Council President of Tatarstan Mintimer Shaimiev delivered his annual Address on internal and external position of Republic Tatarstan.
Traditionally President strikes the balance of the past year, determines milestones for republic’s ministries and services, pinpoints priorities in the economic sphere of Tatarstan, gives political directions and touches upon the most important strategic targets of Tatarstan development.
The extended session took place at S.Saidash Grand Concert Hall.
Apart from the RT State Council members and Government of RT all 50 members of the Public Chamber, chairmen of committees of the City Duma, heads of city and regional municipalities, heads of executive committees of regions, representatives of villages and settlements were invited to the 22nd session. Also heads of Kazan districts, members of the youth public chamber, representatives of enterprises and companies, banking, small- and middle-scale, education, healthcare, clergy, heads of mass media, creative unions, members of political parties and others took part in the session. The session was broadcasted on air in 10:00 on channel “Tatarstan-New Century”.
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.