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The meeting of the head of the organizing committee of the International Summit of Islamic Business and Finance, general director of IFK Linova Linar Yakupov, and the secretary general of the Bahrain International Economic Summit, Salman al-Sheib, was held in Kazan on the threshold of the Victory Day.

A bright show “Star Journey” dedicated to Ak Bar hockey club’s victory in the Open Russian Championship of the Continental Hockey League 2008/2009 will be held at Kazan’s ice palace Tatneft-Arena on May 22.

The meeting on social and economic development of the Volga Federal District chaired by Russian President Dmitry Medvedev took part in Kirov on May 14. Tatarstan President Mintimer Shaimiev also attended the meeting.

‘Charity in the interests of children’ was in the centre at the meeting of the Republican Council on charity held at the Kazan Kremlin on May 13. The meeting was led by Chairman of the Council, President of the Republic of Tatarstan.

May 12, Chairman of the RT State Council Farid Mukhametshin met with the delegation of the Tatar community of the People's Republic of china. A few years ago, RT President Mintimer Shaimiev set a task to support and help representatives of the Tatar community of China get education in Tatarstan's universities. "University rectors supported this idea and this practice is expanding," the head of the Tatarstan Parliament noted.

The auto producer Kamaz has resumed its main line’s operation, said the company’s press service. In May, 2,009 frames are to be built, 1,920 trucks and component kits assembled and 1,967 delivered to customers. Besides, Kamaz divisions are manufacture spare parts for 363 million roubles.

The auto maker Kamaz is holding a board of directors’s meeting in Moscow, said the company’s press service. The meeting focuses on preparing for the Kamaz shareholders’s meeting. The agenda includes preliminary approval of the agenda for the general shareholders’s meeting, annual return and financial statement for 2008, discussing draft decisions on other issues, to be introduced to the agenda.

Tatarstan President Mintimer Shaimiev sent congratulatory telegrams to Vitaly Mutko, the RF minister of sport, tourism and youth policy, Aleksandr Medvedev, the president of the continental hockey league, and Vladislav Tretyak, the president of the Russian hockey federation, on the occasion of the Russian national hockey team winning the World Championship in Switzerland.

May 12, the Chairman of the RT State Council, Farid Mukhametshin, met with the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan to the Russian Federation, Mohammad Khalid Khattak.

The prime minister of the Republic of Tatarstan, Rustam Minnikhanov, is on a working visit to Japan as a member of the Russian delegation on May 11-12. The delegation is led by the head of the Russian government, Vladimir Putin.