Mintimer Shaimiev announced 2005 Year of 1000th Anniversary of Kazan
16 December 2004, Thursday
Yesterday, the President of the Republic of Tatarstan signed a decree announcing the coming year of 2005 to be The Year of the 1000th Anniversary of Kazan in the republic. This recognises the historical role of the Tatarstan capital in the development of Russian and Tatarstan statehood.
The RT Cabinet of Ministers and Kazan city Administration have to ensure the social and economic development of the capital during the realisation of measures on preparation and carrying out the anniversary celebrations in Kazan. Bodies of local government, public organisations and creative units are recommended to take an active part in the preparation and carrying out The Year of the 1000th Anniversary of Kazan in the Republic of Tatarstan.
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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