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On 8 December, addressing the participants of  a closing session of the International Forum dedicated to 50th anniversary of the Convention for Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage, Tatarstan Deputy Prime Minister Shamil Gafarov, who is the Chairman of UNESCO Commission for Tatarstan, expressed his gratitude to all those who did and are doing huge work in the sphere of preservation and use of cultural and natural heritage and development of international humanitarian cooperation.

On December 5, in Kazan, Tatarstan President, Chairman of the Russia – Islamic World Strategic Vision Group Rustam Minnikhanov, Russian Minister of Culture Olga Lyubimova, the State Counselor of the republic, UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador Mintimer Shaimiev and Executive Secretary of the Commission of the Russian Federation for UNESCO Grigory Ordzhonikidze and delegations of a number of foreign states took part in the opening of the International Forum of the 50th Anniversary of Convention concerning the protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage.

On 24 November Tatarstan State Counselor Mintimer Shaimiev, who is also the Chairman of the Supervisory Board of the Regional Revival Fund, the Head of the regional President’s Office Asgat Safarov, the Director of the State Hermitage Mikhail Piotrovskiy, Tatarstan Mufti and the head of the Regional Muslims Spiritual Board Kamil Samigullin, Metropolitan Cyril of Kazan and Tatarstan and  the Lama of Buddhists Traditional Sangha of Russia in the North-West region Buda Badmayev  took part in a plenary session of the Valday International Discussion Club conference which started in Kazan and is dedicated to the topic of “Religious polyvocality and national unity”.

On November 3, Kazan hosted an expanded meeting of the Council of the Assembly of Peoples of Tatarstan, dedicated to the 30th anniversary of the Assembly and the upcoming National Unity Day.

Before the meeting, participants and guests of the solemn event visited the photo exhibition «Assembly of Peoples of Tatarstan: history and modernity», opened in the exhibition hall of the House of House of Peoples' Friendship.

On 1 November in the Kazan Kremlin Tatarstan State Counselor Mintimer Shaymiyev, who is also the Chairman of the Trustees Council of the regional Revival Fund and the UNESCO Good Will Ambassador, had a meeting with the Chairman of the Board of Russian Historical Society- the Executive Director of the History of the Fatherland Fund of Russian Academy of Sciences Konstantin Mogilevsliy, the Member of the Russian Historical Society Presidium , Director of the Institute of Archeology of Russian Academy of Sciences Nikolay Makarov and the Academician of the Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences Shakhin Mustafayev, who came to take part in the international conference “Restoration, Conservation and Museumfication of the archeological wood and organic materials” in Kazan.

On 1 November in a videoconference mode, the State Counselor of the republic Mintimer Shaimiev took part in the summarizing meeting of the organizing committee of the 1100th anniversary of adoption of Islam by the Volga Bulgaria held by Russian Deputy Prime Minister Marat Khusnullin in Moscow.

On 1 November Tatarstan State Counselor Mintimer Shaimiev, who is also the Chairman of the Trustees Council of the regional Revival Fund and the UNESCO Good Will Ambassador, the Chairman of the Board of Russian Historical Society- the Executive Director of the History of the Fatherland Fund of Russian Academy of Sciences Konstantin Mogilevsliy, the Executive Director of the ICOM in Russia Olga Chistova, the Director of the Museum-Reserve of the Town-Island of Sviyazhsk Artyom Silkin, the Director of the Institute of Archeology of Tatarstan Academy of Sciences Ayrat Sitdikov and the Director of International Relations Institute of the Kazan Federal University Ravil Khayrutdinov took part in a plenary session of the international conference “Restoration, Conservation and Museumfication of the archeological wood and organic materials”, which opened in Kazan.

On 28 October at their meeting in the Kazan Kremlin, Tatarstan Counselor Mintimer Shaimiev, who is also the Chairman of the Council of Trustees of the Regional Revival Fund and the UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador, and the Director of the Department in Humanitarian Cooperation and Human Rights of the Russian Foreign Ministry Rinat Alyautdinov discussed certain issues of cooperation in the spheres of culture, education and historical heritage.

On October 24, Tatarstan State Counselor, the Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Revival Regional Foundation and the UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador Mintimer Shaimiev took part in the opening ceremony of the exhibition “Light comes from the East”, which presents artworks created under the All-Russian Plein Air dedicated to the 1100th anniversary of the adoption of Islam by Volga Bulgaria.

On October 20, at the Saydashev State Big Concert Hall, the thirty-five meeting of Tatarstan State Council of the sixth convocation was held.

The Address of Tatarstan President Rustam Minnikhanov to the State Council of the republic on the internal and external situation of the republic was the only issue on the agenda.