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On November 25, Tatarstan State Counsellor Mintimer Shaimiev, Mayor of Kazan Ilsur Metshin and Director of museum reserve Kazan Kremlin Zilya Valeeva arrived in Yekaterinburg to take part in opening of Yeltsin Presidential Center.
On November 23, at the Kazan Kremlin, Tatarstan State Counsellor, Chairman of the Board of trustees of the “Revival” Foundation Mintimer Shaimiev held a meeting on the implementation of the complex project “Cultural heritage: ancient Bolgar and island town of Sviyazhsk” in 2016.
A solemn session of the Academic Council of Kazan Federal University (KFU) dedicated to the foundation of the university was held On November 20. During the session the State Counsellor and first President of Tatarstan Mintimer Shaimiev was awarded a honorary title “Doctor Honoris Causa of Kazan Federal University”.
On November 20, at the Kazan Kremlin Tatarstan State Counsellor, Chairman of the Board of guardians of the Revival Foundation Mintimer Shaimiev had a meeting with famous Russian author, playwright and historian Edward Radzinsky.
On October 20, Tatarstan State Counsellor, Chairman of the Board of trustees of the Revival Foundation Mintimer Shaimiev met with the Governor of Gagauzia (the Republic of Moldova) Irina Vlakh, who arrived with the delegation of Gagauzia in Kazan in the morning.
On October 8, at a plenary session of the International research and practice conference "Muslim theological thought: national, religious and civilizational dimensions" in Bolgar, Tatarstan, President of the republic Rustam Minnikhanov said that today national religious education does not enable to deal with current challenges, therefore, we need to establish a major scientific, educational and spiritual center that will consolidate positions of Russian Muslim leaders and foreign distinguished scientists, and traditional Islam.
On October 8, the International research and practice conference "Muslim theological thought: national, religious and civilizational dimensions" organized by the Muslim Spiritual Board of the Republic of Tatarstan, Fund for the Support of Islamic Culture, Science and Education and Kazan Federal University opened in Bolgar, Tatarstan.
On October 7, a conference “Humanitarian sciences in Tatarstan at the turn of XX-XXI centuries” dedicated to the 85th anniversary of a politician, public figure, the first president of Tatarstan Academy of sciences and Director of the Institute of Tatar encyclopedia Mansur Khasanov was held in Kazan, Academy of sciences. The six-volume Tatar encyclopedia in Russian was presented at the conference.