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October 24, RT President Mintimer Shaimiev participated in the first session of the representative body of the newly formed municipality – the city of Kazan, which was staged at Kazan city Hall.

October 21 RT President Mintimer Shaimiev held a session on architectural appearance improvement of Kazan.

President of Tatarstan Mintimer Shaimiev held working meeting with participation of city and region administration chiefs, heads of the ministries and departments of the republic, territorial bodies of the Russian Federation on RT, ranking officers of the President administration , the Cabinet and RT State Council.

Reforms within the framework of national projects in sphere of public health services solve radical questions, such an opinion was stated by President of Tatarstan Mintimer Shaimiev while making comments on the second part of session of Council under Plenipotentiary of the President of the Russian Federation in the Volga Federal district. In the agenda of the session the report by the RF Minister of Health Mikhail Zurabov "On realization of priority national projects in sphere of public health services" appeared to be the second issue.

October 18, President of Tatarstan Mintimer Shaimiev takes part in the Council of RF President’s Plenipotentiary Envoy to the Volga area Federal District, which started in the capital of Udmurtia – Izhevsk. The session will be held under RF President’s Plenipotentiary Envoy to the Volga area Federal District Sergey Kirienko chairmanship.
Opening the session S.Kirienko noted that, today, two principal questions are on the agenda: “About the order of implementation of the Federal law No.131-FZ from October 6, 2003 “About the general principles of self-government organisation in the Russian Federation” in the subjects within the VFD” and “About implementation of national priority projects in the field of health care”.

President of Kazakhstan Nursultan Nazarbaev signed a decree “On the State Peace and Progress Prize of the First President of Kazakhstan award”.

October 17, RT President Mintimer Shaimiev commented out preliminary results of the municipal elections that were held on the eve, at press-conference at IA “Interfax-Povolzhie”.

October 16, President of Tatarstan Mintimer Shaimiev with spouse participated in voting for deputies to representative body of municipal subject of Kazan.

Sunday, October 16, elections for all municipal subjects start. In fact, Tatarstan enters a new stage of political development. The municipal reform is being implemented, the gist of which is to improve responsibility and independence of local self-government bodies, to considerably broaden their powers.

Kazan Kremlin, the meeting was held between President of Tatarstan Mintimer Shaimiev and Board Chairman of RF Pension fund Gennady Batanov who had arrived in Kazan on official opening of new office building of RF Pension fund branch.