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On August 16, Tatarstan President Rustam Minnikhanov, Tatarstan State Counsellor Mintimer Shaimiev, Chairman of the regional Council Farid Mukhametshin, Chairman of the Union of Composers of Russia and Tatarstan Rashid Kalimullin, and well-known workers of art of the republic took part in a ceremony of unveiling a monument to the outstanding Tatar composer, pianist, People's Artist of the USSR, the author of the music of the National Anthem of the Republic of Tatarstan Rustem Yakhin in the park in front of the N.G. Zhiganov Kazan State Conservatory on Bolshaya Krasnaya Street in Kazan.

On August 16, in the Government House of the republic, Tatarstan President Rustam Minnikhanov held a meeting of the Presidium of the Commission for Countering Corruption in Tatarstan, which considered the information on providing false (incomplete) information on incomes, expenses, property and property-related liabilitiese by regional state officials for 2016.