On 2 June the Chairman of the Tatarstan Committee on Protection of Cultural Heritage Sites Ivan Guschin, the Executive Director of the Regional Revival Fund Zulfiya Sungatullina, the Head of the Spassk municipality Fargat Mukhametov and the Director of the Bolgar State Museum-Reserve Ramil Ziganshin took part in an offsite meeting held at the construction site of a new hotel complex by the Tatarstan State Counselor, the Chairman of the Regional Revival Fund  Guardian Council Mintimer Shaymiyev who came on  working trip to Bolgar.

On June 1, in the International Children's Day, the polylingual educational complex "Adymnar-Kazan" hosted a screening of a feature film in the Tatar language "Mintimer һәm anyn duslary" ("Mintimer and his friends") about the Kazan schoolboy Mintimer and his village adventures.

On 23 May in Moscow Russian President Vladimir Putin handed in the Order of St. Andrew the First-Called to the First President of Tatarstan and Hero of Labour of Russia Mintimer Shaimiev, who is currently the State Counselor of the republic, for his outstanding service to the state and longstanding fruitful public activities.

On May 9, the Rais (Head) of Tatarstan Rustam Minnikhanov, Tatarstan State Counsellor, Hero of Labour of Russia Mintimer Shaimiev and accompanying them people took part in solemn events dedicated to the Victory Day and laid a wreath at the Eternal Flame of the Colonnade of the Glory Memorial in Kazan.