Mintimer Shaimiev takes part in session of Public Television Council
7 November 2013, Thursday
On November 7 Tatarstan State Counsellor Mintimer Shaimiev took part in a session of the Council of Public Television of Russia, which started its broadcasting in May this year, in Moscow.
To the point, Mintimer Shaimiev is the member of the Public Television Council.
Before the session, members of the Council got acquainted with a new television and technical complex of the Public Television of Russia. They appreciated the work done by the Public Television leadership to create and organize the activity of a new channel.
Director General of Pubic Television of Russia, President of International Academy of Radio and Television Anatoly Lysenko reported about results of the channel broadcasting for six months. Then members of the Council exchanged their opinions about the activity of the channel and discussed further tasks of the public television.
In his speech Tatarstan State Counsellor noted great spiritual significance of the new public channel, aimed at developing the civil society and promoting human and moral values. He pointed out that the Public Television of Russia should broadcast urgent problems of the multinational people of the country and made a number of proposals on broadcasting the life of the regions and cooperation with regional television and radio companies.
Members of the Council also discussed some organizational issues related to the broadcasting of the channel, as well as financial support of the Public Television of Russia.
On 9 May Tatarstan Prime Minister Aleksey Pesoshin took part in a ceremony of laying flowers to the monument “The victorious soldier” dedicated to the celebrations of the Day of Victory in the Great Patriotic War (WW II) 1941-1945 and held at Arsk cemetery in Kazan.
On 8 May, speaking at a meeting held by the Rais (Head) of Tatarstan Rustam Minnikhanov in the Government House of the republic with participation of the Acting Chairman of the State Council of the republic Marat Akhmetov and the regional Prime Minister Aleksey Pesoshin, the Minister of Construction, Architecture and Housing Utilities Sector of the republic Marat Ayzatullin reported that capital overhaul of social facilities is in full swing in the republic with 170 educational facilities having been included into regional and federal programmes.
On 4 May at a briefing held in the Tatarstan Government House it was told that currently there are 92 combat veterans, the last witnesses of the Great Patriotic War (WW II) of 1941-1945, living in the republic. The briefing also informed about veterans’ support measures and how the republic is planning to celebrate the Victory Day on 9 May.
The Deputy Prime Minister of the republic Leyla Fazleeva told that names of 353 Heroes of the Soviet Union from Tatarstan “ are immortalized in street names, on memorials, in monuments and squares and, of course, in our memory”. “The Victory Day is the day of memory, mourning and joy. It is the event which today should be clearly understandable to all young people and younger generation of Tatarstan,” she said.
On 24 April, upon his arrival to the Kazan International Airport, the Defense Minister of China Dong Jun was welcomed by Tatarstan Prime Minister Aleksey Pesoshin, representatives of the General Consulate of China in Kazan and other officials