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On April 22, Prime Minister of Tatarstan Aleksey Pesoshin awarded Grand Prix winners at the closing ceremony of the 17th regional youth festival of variety art “Sozvezdie-Yoldyzlyk" in Kazan. 

On April 22, at the Jalil Tatar Opera and Ballet Theatre in Kazan, Tatarstan President Rustam Minnikhanov and Chairman of Tatarstan State Council Farid Mukhametshin attended a festive concert, which marked the closure of the 3rd Congress of the Peoples of Tatarstan. 

On April 22, Chairman of the Russian State Duma Vyacheslav Volodin sent his greetings to participants and guests of the Congress of the Peoples of Tatarstan.

On April 22, at the 3rd Congress of the Peoples of Tatarstan, Head of the Republic of Dagestan Ramazan Abdulatipov handed over the Order of Merit for the Republic of Dagestan to the First President of the Republic of Tatarstan Mintimer Shaimiev for his great contribution to strengthening friendship and cooperation and developing economic and cultural ties between Dagestan and Tatarstan.

On April 22, Russia's President Vladimir Putin sent his greetings to participants and guests of the 3rd Congress of the Peoples of Tatarstan.

On April 22, in the Kazan Kremlin, Tatarstan State Counsellor, Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Revival Regional Foundation Mintimer Shaimiev had a meeting with Head of the Republic of Dagestan Ramazan Abdulatipov, who arrived in Kazan yesterday to take part in the 3rd Congress of the Peoples of Tatarstan, which opens at the Korston Entertainment Complex today.

On April 22, speaking at a video-conference with participation of all municipalities held by Tatarstan Prime Minister Aleksey Pesoshin at the Government House of the republic, Minister of Agriculture and Food of the republic reported that 215,000 hectares, or 20 per cent of the total area, of winter crops and perennial grasses have been fertilized. Because of the current weather we can not proceed to large-scale field works, he said.