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August 19 saw the meeting of the President of the Republic of Tatarstan, Mintimer Shaimiev, and the Prime-minister of the Russian Federation, Vladimir Putin, taking place in Moscow.
August 17, Russian women tennis players won all the three singles medals in the Beijing Olympics 2008. The President of the Republic of Tatarstan, Mintimer Shaimiev, sent a greeting message to Shamil Tarpishchev, the President of the Russian Tennis Federation, the captain of the Russian tennis team.
August 12, Tatarstan President Mintimer Shaimiev visited large health agencies in the city of Naberezhnye Chelny, Tatarstan.
Tatarstan President Mintimer Shaimiev summed up the results of his meeting with Russian President Dmitry Medvedev who visited Kazan last Thursday.
The President of the Russian Federation, Dmitry Medvedev, arrived at the Kazan River Port on the motor-ship Rossija on August 7. The head of Russia with spouse were met by Mintimer Shaimiev, the President of the Republic of Tatarstan, and Grigory Rapota, the Plenipotentiary Envoy of the Russian President in the Volga Federal District.
August 5 saw the meeting of the President of Tatarstan, Mintimer Shaimiev, and the Director General of the state corporation "Russian Corporation of Nanotechnologies", Leonid Melamed, taking place in the Kazan Kremlin.