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On 9 June Tatarstan State Councilor Mintimer Shaimiev, who is also the Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Regional Revival Fund and the UNESCO Good Will Ambassador, had a meeting with the Director of the Department on Multilateral Humanitarian Cooperation and Cultural Relations of the Russian Foreign Ministry Aleksandr Alimov, who came to take part in the International Forum of Education Ministers “Shaping the Future”, which is held in Kazan from 7 to 11 June.
On June 8, at the Bashir Rameev IT park, the International Forum of Education Ministers “Shaping the Future” with participation of ministers of Education from more than 20 foreign countries and representatives from regions of Russia took place.
On 8 June the Aid of Russian President Andrey Fursenko, Russian Minister of Education Sergey Kravtsov, the Minister of Science and Education of the country Valeriy Falkov and Tatarstan State Counselor Mintimer Shaimiev took part in a morning session of the International Forum of Education Ministers “Shaping the Future”, which is held in Kazan from 7 to 11 June with participation of ministers of Education from more than 20 foreign countries and representatives from regions of Russia.
On June 6, on the Day of the Russian Language and the 224th birthday of the great Russian poet Aleksandr Pushkin, Tatarstan State Counselor Mintimer Shaimiev, Chairman of the State Council of the republic Farid Mukhametshin and representatives of the creative intelligentsia and public of the republic, cultural workers and students took part in the Poetry Festival dedicated to this holiday and held near the Jalil Tatar Academic State Opera and Ballet Theatre in Kazan.
On 2 June the Chairman of the Tatarstan Committee on Protection of Cultural Heritage Sites Ivan Guschin, the Executive Director of the Regional Revival Fund Zulfiya Sungatullina, the Head of the Spassk municipality Fargat Mukhametov and the Director of the Bolgar State Museum-Reserve Ramil Ziganshin took part in an offsite meeting held at the construction site of a new hotel complex by the Tatarstan State Counselor, the Chairman of the Regional Revival Fund Guardian Council Mintimer Shaymiyev who came on working trip to Bolgar.
On June 1, in the International Children's Day, the polylingual educational complex "Adymnar-Kazan" hosted a screening of a feature film in the Tatar language "Mintimer һәm anyn duslary" ("Mintimer and his friends") about the Kazan schoolboy Mintimer and his village adventures.
On 23 May in Moscow Russian President Vladimir Putin handed in the Order of St. Andrew the First-Called to the First President of Tatarstan and Hero of Labour of Russia Mintimer Shaimiev, who is currently the State Counselor of the republic, for his outstanding service to the state and longstanding fruitful public activities.
On May 9, the Rais (Head) of Tatarstan Rustam Minnikhanov, Tatarstan State Counsellor, Hero of Labour of Russia Mintimer Shaimiev and accompanying them people took part in solemn events dedicated to the Victory Day and laid a wreath at the Eternal Flame of the Colonnade of the Glory Memorial in Kazan.
On May 4, at the Jalil Tatar Academic Opera and Ballet Theatre, the Rais (Head) of Tatarstan Rustam Minnikhanov, State Counselor of the republic Mintimer Shaimiev, Prime Minister of the republic Aleksey Pesoshin, Mayor of Kazan Ilsur Metshin, Deputy Chairman of the Russian Military Historical Society Nikolay Ovsyenko, veterans and military personnel took part in a solemn event dedicated to the 78th anniversary of the victory in WWII.
On May 3, the Rais (Head) of Tatarstan Rustam Minnikhanov, State Counselor of the republic Mintimer Shaimiev, the Head of the Office of the Rais of Tatarstan Asgat Safarov , who is also the Chairman of the Society in Tatarstan, and the Chairman of the All-Russia Society of Sports and Physical Training "Dynamo" Anatoliy Gulevskiy took part in a ceremonial event dedicated to the 100th birthday of the All-Russia Society of Sports and Physical Training "Dynamo" held in the Kazan Kremlin.