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May 12, the Chairman of the RT State Council, Farid Mukhametshin, met with the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan to the Russian Federation, Mohammad Khalid Khattak.

The prime minister of the Republic of Tatarstan, Rustam Minnikhanov, is on a working visit to Japan as a member of the Russian delegation on May 11-12. The delegation is led by the head of the Russian government, Vladimir Putin.

The grand event in honour of the 64th anniversary of Victory in the Great Patriotic War took place in Millennium Square on May 9 in Kazan. Mintimer Shaimiev, the President of the Republic of Tatarstan, took part in the event.

May 9, Tatarstan President Mintimer Shaimiev laid flowers to the eternal flame and the monument to mourning mothers and widows in the Park of Victory.

The final stage of the Victory Day motor rally has been held in Kazan today. The motor rally was organized by DOSAAF (Army, Aviation and Navy Support NGO). A meeting has taken place before the final part of the rally.

The cost of a minimal food set above the poverty line in Russia in April 2009 increased 0.4 percent, totalling by the end of the month 2,213 roubles per capita a month, reports the Federal State Statistics Service.

A gratifying letter from Plenipotentiary Envoy of the Republic of Tatarstan in the Republic of Turkey Radik Gimatdinov has been received by Tatarstan Deputy Prime Minister – Minister of Culture Zilya Valeyeva.

The reception hosted by the President of the Republic of Tatarstan marking the 64th Anniversary of the Great Patriotic War was held in the Coat of Arms Hall at the Kazan Kremlin on May 7.

May 5th, President of Tatarstan Mintimer Shaimiev visits Chistopolsky and Novosheshminsky municipal districts of Tatarstan. The working trip of the head of republic to Chistopolsky and Novosheshminsky districts is devoted to the issue of growing of crop 2009.