President of Tatarstan met participants of Seminar “Dialogue, Tolerance and Education: Joint Forces of the Council of Europe and Religious Communities”
24 February 2006, Friday
In Kazan Kremlin meeting of RT President Mintimer Shaimiev with participants of international seminar “Dialogue, Tolerance, Education: joint forces of the Council of Europe and religious communities” was held February 22.
The Seminar was initiated by the Human Rights Commissioner of the Council of Europe Alvaro Gil-Robles. New elected Commissioner on Human Rights Thomas Hammarberg, Ombudsman of Russia Vladimir Lukin, about 60 representatives of different clergies from different countries, public organisations, ombudsmen, ambassadors, theologises, historians and people deputies took part in the international forum.
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.