NEWS
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.
On 5 October the Tatarstan State Counselor, the Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Regional Revival Foundation and the Good Will Ambassador of UNESCO Mintimer Shaimiev took part in celebrations dedicated to the Teacher’s Day at the poly-language educational complex of Adymnar in Kazan.
On 5 September Tatarstan State Counselor Mintimer Shaimiev and the Chairman of the State Council of the republic Farid Mukhametshin took part in a ceremony of opening a memorial plaque to the People’s Poet and a famous political and public figure Robert M. Minnullin, put on a facade of a house in Tolstoy Street in Kazan, where the poet spent last years of his life.
On 1 September Tatarstan President Rustam Minnikhanov and the State Counselor of the republic Mintimer Shaimiev took part in an opening ceremony of a poly-lingual educational complex Adymnar in Nizhnekamsk.
The school will teach 1 224 children and will work together with Nizhnekamskheftekhim, Nizhnekamskshina and TANEKO companies.
On August 28, in Sviyazhsk, Tatarstan President Rustam Minnikhanov, Tatarstan State Counselor Mintimer Shaimiev, Metropolitan of Kazan and Tatarstan Kirill, Head of Zelenodolsk region of the republic Mikhail Afanasiev Archpastors, priests and laity of Tatarstan Metropolis took part in the celebrations on the 25th anniversary of the revival of the Virgin Assumption Monastery.
On 2 August, speaking at the plenary session of the VIII convention of the World Congress of Tatars held at the International Exhibition Center Kazan Expo, Tatarstan State Counselor Mintimer Shaimiev congratulated its participants with the 30th anniversary of establishment of the World Congress of Tatars.
On 21 July Tatarstan State Counselor Mintimer Shaimiev, who is also the Chairman of the Foundation Board of the Regional Revival Fund, took part in a ceremonial event dedicated to 443th anniversary of appropriation of the Kazan Virgin Icon held in the reconstructed Cathedral of the Kazan Virgin Icon after the Divine Liturgy.
On 25 June Tatarstan State Counselor Mintimer Shaimiev and the Chairman of the State Council of the republic Farid Mukhanetshin attended a lying in repose of the outstanding state and political leader Fatikh Sibagatullin.