Culture is meaning of life

June 14, the President of Tatarstan Mintimer Shaimiev by video-communication from the centre of company "Tattelekom" welcomed participants of the second Open festival of regional broadcasting companies "Culture on air" held in Nizhnekamsk.

The project of arranging annual All-Russia festival for the TV journalists covering the issues of culture in city Nizhnekamsk was born within the framework of program of the Volga federal district "Cultural capital of the Volga region". Nizhnekamsk being large industrial centre of Tatarstan, won a title of " Cultural capital " last year and received the grant for holding the festival. This year to Nizhnekamsk arrived about two hundred journalists representing over fifty broadcasting companies from 32 cities of Russia. collection.

Mintimer Shaimiev thanked the RF Ministry of culture and minister Mikhail Shvydkoj, participating in festival, that the place of holding such representative forum was elected city of Tatarstan, Nizhnekamsk. The festival will answer the most important, urgent questions - culture on air and as a whole in a society, M. Shamiev said. For last decade we have won civil rights and enjoy full freedom of speech. After reforms and democratization of a society we appeared in world information space and faced what other countries had already passed. We too should pass through it, truly saying, having gone through information shock. Having already matured, we are being cleared, understanding that the society demands more constructive, than negative materials. And the point that the festival has undertaken such difficult problem is the beginning of the big way.

RF minister of culture was full of impressions from Sabantui holiday where the festival participants had a pleasure to be , and was fascinated by multi - culture of Tatarstan, and also by meetings with residents of Nizhnekamsk who, by M.Shvydkoj's words, live in XXI-m century, feeling behind a thousand-year history. The culture also is sense of our life, Michael Shvydkoj holds.