The writers’ organisation of Chuvashia has celebrated its 80th anniversary in Cheboksary.
The capital of the Republic of Chuvashia hosted the guests from Moscow, Nizhny Novgorod, Ylyanovsk, and other Russian regions. Chairman of the RT Union of Writers Foat Galimullin headed the Tatarstan delegation. Valery Turgai, the head of Chuvash creative organisation, marked a beneficial effect of Tatarstan colleagues on development of the Chuvash literature.
Tatarstan President Mintimer Shaimiev sent his greetings to the Chuvash writers together with a carpet with a picture of the Kazan Kremlin. The Tatarstan delegation invited Chuvash colleagues to take part in the Days of the Chuvash literature in Tatarstan to be held in spring 2004.
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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