Rustam Minnikhanov meets with compatriots living in USA and Canada

On September 17 during his working visit to Boston Tatarstan President Rustam Minnikhanov met with compatriots living in USA and Canada. Students and post-graduate students, who study at American universities, activists of Tatar communities took part in the meeting.

Welcoming participants of the meeting, Rustam Minnikhanov said he was glad that Tatar people managed to find each other so far away from their Motherland, united and do their best to keep traditions, native language and culture. He continued that USA and Canada are business economic partners of Tatarstan, and members of Tatar community help to develop cooperation between the countries.

Rustam Minnikhanov told about projects TNV planet, the online programme for learning the Tatar language “Ana tele” aimed at helping Tatars living abroad to keep their traditions and culture that are being implemented in the republic.

Compatriots who came from Canada informed about Tatar communities in Montreal and Toronto that help Tatar people to maintain their identity, not to forget their national cuisine and native language. Sabantui holiday has been held in Toronto since 2004.

Participants of the meeting noted that they visited Kazan in 2012 to take part in the 5th meeting of the World Congress of Tatars, and in spring 2014 they are going to come again to participate in events within the framework of the World Congress of Russian young compatriots.

A concert was held for Rustam Minnikhanov and his party, where Tatars sang songs in their native language and showed other performances.

At the end of the event, compatriots offered Rustam Minnikhanov to hold such a meeting in New York as well.