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On February 26, the Rais (Head) of Tatarstan Rustam Minnikhanov together with Tatarstan State Counselor Mintimer Shaimiev and accompanied by the Mayor of Kazan Ilsur Metshin, the Head of Laishevsky region of the republic Ildus Zaripov and Mufti of Tatarstan, Chairman of the Spiritual Administration of Muslims of the republic Kamil Khazrat Samigullin took part in the opening ceremony of the cathedral mosque «Ak Mosque «Zaynab».
On 20 January in the Kazan Kremlin the Tatarstan State Counselor Mintimer Shaimiev had a meeting with Tatarstan Mufti Kamil hazrat Samigullin and the Metropolitan of Kazan and Tatarstan Cyrill who came to congratulate him with his birthday celebrated today.
State Counselor of Tatarstan Mintimer Shaimiev took part in voluntary action “Christmas Tree of wishes” and fulfilled the New Year’s wish of 7 year old Timur Galiev from Kazan.
On December 7, Tatarstan State Counselor, the Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Regional Revival Fund Mintimer Shaimiev had a meeting with the Russian Minister of Sports Oleg Matytsin.
On 6 October the Rais (Head) of Tatarstan Rustam Minnikhanov and the State Counselor of the republic Mintimer Shaimiev took part in a ceremonial meeting dedicated to the International Teacher’s Day.
On October 3, on Bauman street in Kazan, the Rais (Head) of Tatarstan Rustam Minnikhanov, Tatarstan State Counselor Mintimer Shaimiev, the Head of the Administration of the Rais of the republic Asgat Safarov, the regional Deputy Prime Minister Leyla Fazleeva, Tatarstan Minister of Culture Irada Ayupova and the President of the regional Academy of Sciences Rifkat Minnikhanov took part in a solemn ceremony of unveiling the memorial plaque to the state and public figure of Tatarstan Mansur Khasanov.
On 27 September Tatarstan State Counselor Mintimer Shaimiev, who is also the Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Regional Revival Fund, came to Bolgar to take part in the events dedicated to the religious holiday of Mawlid an-Nabi - the birthday of the Prophet Muhammad.
On 18 September at its 45th extended session in Saudi Arabia, the World Heritage Committee passed a decision to inscribe Astronomical observatories of Kazan University into the UNESCO World Heritage List.
The work on promotion of the observatories into the World Heritage List was done from 2019 with the support of the Tatarstan Revival Find under supervision of the State Counselor of the republic Mintimer Shaimiev, who is the UNESCO Good Will Ambassador.
On September 15, at the Korston cinema, Tatarstan State Counselor Mintimer Shaimiev watched the film “Take and Remember” by film director Baybulat Batulla. Together with him at the film screening were director Baybulat Batulla, writer Rabit Batulla, who played one of the main roles, and Chairman of the Writers' Union of Tatarstan Rkail Zaidullin.
On 14 September Tatarstan State Counselor Mintimer Shaimiev took part in the 47th session of the State Council of the republic of the sixth convocation, where during the brake he attended the exhibition dedicated to the ethnographic project “The Embroidered Map of Tatarstan”.