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People’s artist of Tatarstan and Russia, laureate of State awards of the USSR and Tatarstan, Chairman of the Theatre Union of the Republic of Tatarstan Rinat Tazetdinov marked his 70th anniversary not so long ago. President of the Republic of Tatarstan Mintimer Shaimiev congratulated Mr. Tazetdinov and presented him with the Order of Merit before the Republic of Tatarstan in the Kazan Kremlin on February 2.

January 31 saw the opening of the 35th session of the State Council of the Republic of Tatarstan taking place in the Salikh Saidashev Grand Concert Hall. The President of the Republic of Tatarstan delivered the Annual Address to the State Council of the Republic of Tatarstan.

January 29, President of the Republic of Tatarstan Mintimer Shaimiev visited the Zelenodolsk district of the Republic of Tatarstan where he took part in the opening of the Ice Palace in Zelenodolsk and visited the hothouse plant ‘Maiski’ in the village of Osinovo.

President of the Republic of Tatarstan Mintimer Shaimiev passed on his condolences to the head of the Bugulma district, Nail Magdeyev, on the tragic death of the children caused by a snowslide.

January 23, Tatarstan President Mintimer Shaimiev met with Colonel General Aleksander Fedorov, the Secretary of State – Deputy Director of the Russian Federal Service for narcotics traffic control at the Kazan Kremlin.

January 22, President of the Republic of Tatarstan Mintimer Shaimiev signed the Law of the Republic of Tatarstan “On introduction of amendments to the Law of the Republic of Tatarstan “On foreign investments in the Republic of Tatarstan”, that is a rephrasing of the previous law.

The President of the Republic of Tatarstan, Mintimer Shaimiev, congratulated Rashid Sunayev, academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences, member of honour of the Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Tatarstan, senior staff scientist of the Institute of space research and head of the largest Russian school for high-energy astrophysics, who was awarded Crafoord Prize 2008.

January 18, President of the Republic of Tatarstan Mintimer Shaimiev attended the meeting of the board of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in the Republic of Tatarstan that was convened to discuss the results of the work of the Tatarstan internal affairs bodies in 2007.

January 17, Tatarstan President Mintimer Shaimiev received Consul General of the Social Republic of Vietnam in Yekaterinburg Dr. Le Quy Quynh in his official residence at the Kazan Kremlin.