Mintimer Shaimiev meets Governor of Oryol region Vadim Potomsky
8 June 2015, Monday
On June 8, Tatarstan State Counsellor Mintimer Shaimiev met Governor of the Oryol region Vadim Potomsky, who arrived in the republic on a working visit on June 7.
Shaimiev told the guest about cultural and historical project “Cultural heritage: the ancient town of Bolgar and island town of Sviyazhsk”, and 5-year activity of the Revival Foundation.
Potomsky told about sights and historical monuments of the Oryol region. He said that the purpose of his trip was activation and expansion of cooperation between the regions.
First Deputy Prime Minister Aleksei Pesoshin and Vice-governor of the Oryol region Bekhan Ozdoyev took part in the meeting.
On 20 January in the evening Russian President Vladimir Putin called Tatarstan State Counselor Mintimer Shaimiev and congratulated him with his birthday. During the conversation Vladimir Putin stated that he is happy to hear bright voice of Mintimer (Sharipovich) and wished him good health and all the best.
On 20 January, congratulating Tatarstan State Counselor Mintimer Shaimiev with his birthday, the Chairman of the Russian Government Mikhail Mishustin wrote in his telegramme: “Being a famous and political leader, you have made a substantial contribution into modern development of Tatarstan and have earned the deep respect and gratitude of residents of the republic.
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’