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On February 19, at the Kazan Kremlin Tatarstan State Counsellor, Chairman of Board of Trustees of the Revival Foundation Mintimer Shaimiev had a meeting with Director of the State Hermitage Museum Mikhail Piotrovsky, who arrived in Kazan to take part in the opening of the exhibition “Ibn Fadlan’s journey: Volga route from Baghdad to Bolgar” at the Hermitage-Kazan Center.
On January 13, at the Kazan Kremlin Tatarstan State Counsellor and Chairman of the Board of trustees of the Revival Foundation Mintimer Shaimiev presented a volume VI of the Book of Benefactors, as well as letters of commendation, to CEOs and individuals who made donations to the Revival Foundation.
On January 4, Kazan said farewell to the great Tatarstan benefactor Asgat Galimzyanov, who died on January 3 at the age of 80. A civil funeral service was held in the hall of the Cultural Center of the Ministry of the Interior of the republic.
On December 23, in Bolgar, Tatarstan State Counsellor and Chairman of Board of Trustees of Revival Foundation Mintimer Shaimiev held a brief meeting on building a hotel complex.
On December 15, the 3rd All-Russian UNESCO Chair Congress was held at the National Mineral Resources University in St. Petersburg. Grigory Ordzhonikidze, Executive Secretary of the Commission of the Russian Federation for UNESCO, read out a welcome message from Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov addressed to participants of the congress.
On December 14, Tatarstan State Counsellor Mintimer Shaimiev took part in a plenary session of the IV St. Petersburg International Cultural Forum devoted to the 70th anniversary of UNESCO.
On December 13, Tatarstan delegation headed by State Counsellor, Chairman of the Board of trustees of “Revival” Regional Foundation Mintimer Shaimiev arrived in St. Petersburg to take part in the 4th international cultural forum dedicated to the 70th anniversary of UNESCO. Solemn opening of the forum was held in the General Staff Building of the State Hermitage Museum.
On December 1, at the Kazan Kremlin, Tatarstan State Counsellor Mintimer Shaimiev and coordinator of “Russia-Islamic world” strategic vision group Veniamin Popov shared opinions about activity of the group headed by Tatarstan President Rustam Minnikhanov and discussed current challenges.
On December 1, at the Kazan Kremlin, Tatarstan State Counsellor Mintimer Shaimiev met first deputy Chairman of the Union of Cinematographers of the Russian Federation, film director and people’s artist of Russia Klim Lavrentiev, who arrived in Kazan to take part in a conference of regional branch of the Union of Cinematographers of the Russian Federation.
On November 30, at their meeting at the Kazan Kremlin Tatarstan State Counsellor Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Revival Foundation Mintimer Shaimiev and Chairman of Russian Election Commission discussed issues related to preparing the election of deputies of the State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation of the 7th convocation to take place in Russia on the single voting day, September 18, 2016.