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On June 6, on the birthday of Alexander Pushkin, Tatarstan President Rustam Minnikhanov and Tatarstan State Counsellor Mintimer Shaimiev laid flowers at the monument to the Great Russian poet.
On May 20, in the ancient town of Bolgar, Tatarstan President Rustam Minnikhanov and State Counsellor of the republic Mintimer Shaimiev took part in the solemn opening of the Izge Bolgar Zhyeny holiday dedicated to the Day of official adoption of Islam in Volga Bulgaria.
On May 20, Tatarstan President Rustam Minnikhanov and State Counsellor Mintimer Shaimiev visited festive events dedicated to the Day of official adoption of Islam by Volga Bulgaria in Bolgar.
On May 19, in the Kazan Kremlin, Tatarstan State Counsellor, Chairman of Board of Trustees of the Revival Regional Foundation Mintimer Shaimiev met former Iranian Minister of Foreign Affairs, Deputy Secretary General of the World Organization for Proximity of Islamic Schools of Thought Manouchehr Mottaki.
On May 19, the reburial of Kazan khans Mahmud and Muhammed-Emin and two members of their families was held near the Kazan Kremlin. Tatarstan President Rustam Minnikhanov and State Counsellor of the republic Mintimer Shaimiev took part in the event.
On May 18, in the Kazan Kremlin, Tatarstan State Counsellor, Chairman of Board of Trustees of the Revival Regional Foundation Mintimer Shaimiev met Turkish Ambassador to Russia Hüseyin Diriöz.
On May 9, on Millennium Square in Kazan, Tatarstan President Rustam Minnikhanov, State Counsellor Mintimer Shaimiev, Prime Minister Alexey Pesoshin, Chairman of the State Council Farid Mukhametshin, and veterans of the Great Patriotic War took part in a celebratory parade dedicated to the 72nd anniversary of Victory in the Great Patriotic War.
On May 9, in the Kazan Victory Park, Tatarstan President Rustam Minnikhanov, Tatarstan State Counsellor Mintimer Shaimiev, Prime Minister of the republic Alexey Pesoshin and other officials took part in a ceremony of laying flowers at the Eternal Flame of the Memorial of Glory Colonnade.
On April 28, State Counsellor Mintimer Shaimiev, who came back to Kazan after he was awarded the gold star of the Hero of Labour of the Russian Federation, was honoured at Kazan airport.
On April 28, in a ceremony in the Moscow Kremlin, Russian President Vladimir Putin presented gold medals of the Hero of Labour of the Russian Federation to five Russian citizens for their outstanding achievements in state and public work, among whom is the First President of the Republic of Tatarstan, State Counsellor of the republic, Chairman of Board of Trustees of the Revival Regional Foundation Mintimer Shaimiev.