Rustam Minnikhanov congratulates volleyball players of Dinamo-Kazan team on victory in the Champions League
17 March 2014, Monday
On March 17 Tatarstan President Rustam Minnikhanov met with members of volleyball club Dinamo-Kazan, winners of the Champions League 2013/2014.
“It is a great privilege for me to honour the best team in Europe. Last time we had such a success in 1995. You were heading for this victory for many years and you managed to make your dream come true! Due to such outstanding victories of our athletes we can say that Russia is a powerful country!” Rustam Minnikhanov said.
He continued that victory in the Champions League is the result of hard work of the team, coach, federation and sponsors.
Letters of gratitude of Tatarstan President and prizes were presented to Chief coach Rishat Gilyazutdinov, head of the team Maria Borodakova and team memebrs Ekaterina Gamova.
The title “Honoured worker of physical culture of the Republic of Tatarstan” was given to team members Regina Moroz, Ekaterina Ulanova, Evgeniya Startseva, Irina Voronkova, Jordan Larson, Maria Popova, Daria Rossomakhina, Irina Malkova, Antonella Del Core, Anna Melnikova, and senior coach Denis Matveev. The title “Honoured doctor of the Republic of Tatarstan” was given to team’s doctor Pavel Klimovsky.
Letter of gratitude of Tatarstan President and certificate for 5 million roubles for purchasing sports equipment and outfit was presented to the team.
Chief coach Rishat Gilyazutdinov thanked city and regional leaders for support.
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