On January 6 the State Counselor of the Republic of Tatarstan Mintimer Sjaymiyev, the Chairman of the regional State Council Farid Mukhametshin, members and old stagers of the State Council and representatives of the community took part in a ceremony of unveiling the memorial plaque to Vasiliy Likhachev, who was a well-known state and public leader of Tatarstan and Russia. The ceremony was dedicated to Likhachev’s 70-th anniversary and the plaque was hugh up on the wall of a house where he lived.
On December 28, Tatarstan President Rustam Minnikhanov, Tatarstan State Counsellor Mintimer Shaimiev, Chairman of State Council of the republic Farid Mukhametshin and Prime Minister of the republic Aleksey Pesoshin took part in a solemn ceremony of awarding the laureates of the regional national contest "Leader of the Year - 2021".
On December 17, in the Kazan Kremlin, Tatarstan State Counsellor, Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Revival Regional Foundation Mintimer Shaymiev held a meeting on construction of facilities of polylingual educational complexes "Adymnar" in the cities of Nizhnekamsk and Almetyevsk and the Supplementary Education Centre in Naberezhye Chelny.
On November 8, Tatarstan State Counsellor Mintimer Shaymiev took part in the national census using the State and Municipal Services Portal of the Russian Federation.
On October 28, in Paris, at UNESCO headquarters, the annual meeting of UNESCO Goodwill Ambassadors and UNESCO Artists for Peace, which has not been held in recent years because of the coronavirus pandemic, took place. Tatarstan State Counsellor, the UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador for Intercultural Dialogue Mintimer Shaymiev took part in the meeting via videoconference.
On October 8, at the Saidashev State Big Concert Hall, the twenty-fifth meeting of the regional State Council of the sixth convocation took place.
The only issue on the agenda was the Address of Tatarstan President Rustam Minnikhanov to the State Council of the republic on the internal and external situation in the republic.
On September 14, at their meeting in the Kazan Kremlin, Tatarstan State Counsellor Mintimer Shaimiev met new Consul General of the Republic of Kazakhstan in Kazan Yerlan Iskakov discussed the possibilities of joint projects in the field of culture, education, preservation of the language and historical heritage.
On March 5, Tatarstan President Rustam Minnikhanov and State Counsellor of the republic Mintimer Shaimiev got acquainted with the progress of work on the reconstruction of the Cathedral of the Kazan Icon of the Mother of God.
On February 15, prior to the meeting of the Anti-Terrorist Commission of the Republic of Tatarstan, Tatarstan President Rustam Minnikhanov handed in the badge and the certificate to the honorary title “Honorary Member of the Brothers in Arms All-Russian Organization to State Counsellor of the republic Mintimer Shaimiev.
On December 9, in Kazan, Tatarstan President Rustam Minnikhanov and State Counselor of the republic, Hero of Labor of the Russian Federation Mintimer Shaymiev visited the Hero of Socialist Labor Ildus Mostyukov.