October 27, the President of the Republic of Tatarstan, Mintimer Shaimiev, departed for Jeddah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia to take part in the Fourth Forum of the Strategic Vision Group “Russia - the Islamic World”.
October 23 saw the meeting of the President of the Republic of Tatarstan, Mintimer Shaimiev, and the head of the Federal service for supervising natural resources of the Ministry of natural resources and ecology of the Russian Federation, Vladimir Kirillov, taking place at the Kazan Kremlin.
The meeting of the State Council of the Republic of Tatarstan of the third convocation opened in the conference hall of the RT State Council on October 22. RT President Mintimer Shaimiev took part in the meeting. The key issue at the meeting was the draft budget for 2009 and for the planning period of 2010 and 2011.
October 21, Tatarstan President Mintimer Shaimiev met with the Director of the Venice Film Festival, Marco Muller, and the Director of CTC-Media Inc. Aleksandr Rodnyansky, at the Kazan Kremlin. RT Deputy Prime-minister - Minister of culture Zilya Valeyeva, RT Minister of education and sciences Nail Valeyev, Rector of Kazan State University Myakzyum Salakhov and Director General of the broadcasting company "CTC-Kazan" Gulyara Zaripova also took part in the meeting.
October 20, Mintimer Shaimiev, the President of the Republic of Tatarstan, held a meeting with heads of large enterprises of the Republic of Tatarstan at the Kazan Kremlin.
October 17, Tatarstan President Mintimer Shaimiev met with prominent Russian film director Eldar Ryazanov at the Kazan Kremlin. RT Deputy Prime-minister-Culture Minister ZIlya Valeyeva also took part in the meeting.
October 17, a ceremony of laying a capsule in the foundation of the ammonia, methanol and granulated carbamide production units is taking place in the Mendeleyevsk municipal district. Tatarstan President Mintimer Shaimiev and Vneshekonombank Chairman Vladimir Dmitriev are taking part in the event.
Rashid Nurgaliev, the Minister of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation, is in Kazan on a business trip on October 16. Accompanied by Tatarstan President Mintimer Shaimiev and RT Internal Affairs Minister Asgat Safarov Rashid Nurgaliev visited Kazan Law Institute of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation, where he officially presented the new chief of Kazan Law Institute, Foat Zinnurov.