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On November 3, Kazan hosted an expanded meeting of the Council of the Assembly of Peoples of Tatarstan, dedicated to the 30th anniversary of the Assembly and the upcoming National Unity Day.

Before the meeting, participants and guests of the solemn event visited the photo exhibition «Assembly of Peoples of Tatarstan: history and modernity», opened in the exhibition hall of the House of House of Peoples' Friendship.

On 1 November in the Kazan Kremlin Tatarstan State Counselor Mintimer Shaymiyev, who is also the Chairman of the Trustees Council of the regional Revival Fund and the UNESCO Good Will Ambassador, had a meeting with the Chairman of the Board of Russian Historical Society- the Executive Director of the History of the Fatherland Fund of Russian Academy of Sciences Konstantin Mogilevsliy, the Member of the Russian Historical Society Presidium , Director of the Institute of Archeology of Russian Academy of Sciences Nikolay Makarov and the Academician of the Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences Shakhin Mustafayev, who came to take part in the international conference “Restoration, Conservation and Museumfication of the archeological wood and organic materials” in Kazan.

On 1 November in a videoconference mode, the State Counselor of the republic Mintimer Shaimiev took part in the summarizing meeting of the organizing committee of the 1100th anniversary of adoption of Islam by the Volga Bulgaria held by Russian Deputy Prime Minister Marat Khusnullin in Moscow.

On 1 November Tatarstan State Counselor Mintimer Shaimiev, who is also the Chairman of the Trustees Council of the regional Revival Fund and the UNESCO Good Will Ambassador, the Chairman of the Board of Russian Historical Society- the Executive Director of the History of the Fatherland Fund of Russian Academy of Sciences Konstantin Mogilevsliy, the Executive Director of the ICOM in Russia Olga Chistova, the Director of the Museum-Reserve of the Town-Island of Sviyazhsk Artyom Silkin, the Director of the Institute of Archeology of Tatarstan Academy of Sciences Ayrat Sitdikov and the Director of International Relations Institute of the Kazan Federal University Ravil Khayrutdinov took part in a plenary session of the international conference “Restoration, Conservation and Museumfication of the archeological wood and organic materials”, which opened in Kazan.

On 28 October at their meeting in the Kazan Kremlin, Tatarstan Counselor Mintimer Shaimiev, who is also the Chairman of the Council of Trustees of the Regional Revival Fund and the UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador, and the Director of the Department in Humanitarian Cooperation and Human Rights of the Russian Foreign Ministry Rinat Alyautdinov discussed certain issues of cooperation in the spheres of culture, education and historical heritage.

On October 24, Tatarstan State Counselor, the Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Revival Regional Foundation and the UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador Mintimer Shaimiev took part in the opening ceremony of the exhibition “Light comes from the East”, which presents artworks created under the All-Russian Plein Air dedicated to the 1100th anniversary of the adoption of Islam by Volga Bulgaria.

On October 20, at the Saydashev State Big Concert Hall, the thirty-five meeting of Tatarstan State Council of the sixth convocation was held.

The Address of Tatarstan President Rustam Minnikhanov to the State Council of the republic on the internal and external situation of the republic was the only issue on the agenda.

On 5 October the Tatarstan State Counselor, the Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Regional Revival Foundation and the Good Will Ambassador of UNESCO Mintimer Shaimiev took part in celebrations dedicated to the Teacher’s Day at the poly-language educational complex of Adymnar in Kazan.

On 5 September Tatarstan State Counselor Mintimer Shaimiev and the Chairman of the State Council of the republic Farid Mukhametshin took part in a ceremony of opening a memorial plaque to the People’s Poet and a famous political and public figure Robert M. Minnullin, put on a facade of a house in Tolstoy Street in Kazan, where the poet spent last years of his life.

On 1 September Tatarstan President Rustam Minnikhanov and the State Counselor of the republic Mintimer Shaimiev took part in an opening ceremony of a poly-lingual educational complex Adymnar in Nizhnekamsk.

The school will teach 1 224 children and will work together with Nizhnekamskheftekhim, Nizhnekamskshina and TANEKO companies.