RT President Mintimer Shaimiev congratulated “Kamaz-Master”-winners of “Lisbon-Dakar-2006”
17 January 2006, Tuesday
President of Tatarstan Mintimer Shaimiev congratulated, director general of JSC “KAMAZ” S.A.Kogogin , chief of “Kamaz-Master” crew S.S.Yakubov and personnel of “Kamaz” on victory in rally “Lisbon-Dakar-2006”.
“We were expecting your victory. The seventh victory by “Kamaz-Master” in legendary auto-marathon is a record, failed to be achieved by the same team for history of the Dakar rally. You get more competitors each year; the phenomenon of “Kamaz” is being studied more thoroughly by them. Due to that cost of your victory gets higher with every new competition, along with stability of your successes, glory of national automotive industry is growing ”, - is said in the telegram.
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.