RT President Mintimer Shaimiev and Chairman of RT Muslims’ Religious Board discuss opening of Kul-Sharif Mosque
20 May 2005, Friday
On May 19, RT President Mintimer Shaimiev met with Chairman of the RT Muslims’ Religious Board gusman khazrat Iskhakov.
It was the first meeting of Mintimer Shaimiev and the leader of Tatarstan’s Muslims since he had been appointed as President by the RT State Council. The interlocutors focused on the opening of the Kul-Sharif Mosque to take place on June 24.
After the meeting Gusman Iskhakov said the RT President called the opening of the Kul-Sharif Mosque “the best possibility to represent Kazan as a spiritual and religious centre of Russian Muslims”.
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.
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