Rustam Minnikhanov meets with Chairman of Public center of Tatar culture of the Republic of Poland Ezhi Shakhunevich
16 February 2012, Thursday
President of the Republic of Tatarstan Rustam Minnikhanov has today met with Chairman of Public center of Tatar culture of the Republic of Poland Ezhi Shakhunevich in the Kazan Kremlin.
According to the Director of Department for external relations under RT President – Aide to RT President on international issues Iskander Muflikhanov delegation of Polish Tatars led by Ezhi Shakhunevich is on a working visit in the capital of Tatarstan (February, 14-18, 2012). Representatives of Polish Tatars have come to discuss a number of joint projects meant to be realized in the sphere of investments, trade, and industry.
In the course of meeting Rustam Minnikhanov was told about opening of Trade House of the Republic of Tatarstan in Gdansk.
We remind that Tatarstan delegation led by the President Rustam Minnikhanov was on a working visit to Poland on December, 7, 2011. The visit favoured further mutually beneficial cooperation between Tatarstan and Pomeranian Voivodeship within the development of Russian-Polish relationships.
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Ezhi Shakhunevich is a Vice chairman of Central council of Tatars of the Republic of Poland. In 2005 he became the Chairman of Public center of Tatar culture of the Republic of Poland named after Leon Krichinsky. Moreover, he is the founder of the Museum of Tatars. The Tatar holiday Sabantui has been held by initiative of Ezhi Shakhunevich since 2007.
Shakhunevich was the delegate of IV forum of the World Tatar Congress (Kazan, 2007) and took part in celebrations dedicated to 1000th anniversary of Kazan (2005).
On 12 April in his address to residents of the republic, Tatarstan Prime Minister Aleksey Pesoshin congratulated them with the Space Exploration Day and said: “April 12, 1961 has forever been inscribed into the world history as the day of triumph of the Soviet science and engineering thought. The flight of Yuriy Gagarin opened the way to the stars for the humankind and demonstrated to the whole world the might of our country.
On 4 April , speaking at a closing ceremony of the XX Russian Venture Forum held at the Kazan Expo Exhibition Center, Tatarstan Prime Minister Aleksey Pesoshin said that the Russian Venture Forum has confirmed its status of the point of attraction of technological development leaders.
The Forum created a unified scientific, technological and investment space where scientific ideas are transformed into competitive products, and startups gain access to capital and markets. Its business programme is organically integrated into the regional and federal agenda for achieving technological sovereignty and leadership of Russia, he said.
On 1 April Tatarstan Prime Minister Aleksey Pesoshin and Russian Minister of Healthcare Mikhail Murashko introduced Ayrat Farrakhov, who was appointed the Acting Rector of Kazan State Medical University (KSMU) to its staff.
In his speech Mikhail Murashko emphasized that today KSMU is rightfully considered one of the most respected in the country and said:”Ayrat (Zakievich) has been officially appointed the Acting Rector and I am sure that under his leadership the University will maintain the positions it has achieved and, of course, will continue its development.”
On 31 March in the Government House of the republic Tatarstan Deputy Prime Minister Leyla Fazleeva hold a meeting of the Commission on the Russian language under the Rais of Tatarstan, which considered key issues of supporting and developing Russian language, including new educational initiatives and discussed programmes of popularization of Russian literature and activities to preserve the language heritage.