Russian folk festival “Karavon” opened in Tatarstan
23 May 2015, Saturday
On May 23, the Acting President of the Republic of Tatarstan Rustam Minnikhanov, Chief federal inspector in the Republic of Tatarstan Renat Timerzyanov, Chief of Staff of Tatarstan President's Administrative Office Asgat Safarov, Tatarstan Minister of Culture Airat Sibgatullin and other officials took part in solemn opening of XIII Russian folk festival “Karavon-2015” in Nikolskoe village of Laishevo district.
Having arrived in the village, Rustam Minnikhanov and the delegation looked around the site of folk craft items, History Museum of Karavon Festival and watched a performance “Treasure of folk spirituality – Karavon holiday of Nikolskoe village” dedicated to 70th anniversary of Victory in WWII.
Head of Laishevo district Mikhail Afanasiev welcomed guests at opening of the festival and noted that more than 160 groups from different regions of Russia came to the festival this year.
Rustam Minnikhanov addressed guests and participants of the event: “Being very popular, Karavon is becoming more and more beautiful. Such folk holidays as Karavon, Sabantui are distinctive traditional features of our republic that are transmitting to younger generations and should be preserved”.
Within the framework of the festival , Rustam Minnikhanov presented a number of Honorary titles and Gratitude Letters. Certificate for 500,000 roubles were handed over to two groups “Sudarushka” and “Karavon”.
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.
On 28 March, speaking at a meeting held by Tatarstan Prime Minister Aleksey Pesoshin in the Government House of the republic with participation of the Acting Chairman of the State Council of the republic Marat Akhmetov and all municipalities taking part in it via videoconference, the regional Minister of Ecology and Natural Resources Azat Ziganshin informed that the regional central cleaning up action will be held in the republic on 25 April and clarified that the location of the national cleanup day will be announced later as the site will be chosen taking into account the opinions of Tatarstan residents.
On 28 March, speaking at a meeting held by Tatarstan Prime Minister Aleksey Pesoshin in the Government House of the republic with participation of the regional and the Acting Chairman of the State Council of the republic Marat Akhmetov and all municipalities taking part in it via videoconference, the regional Deputy Minister of Construction, Architecture and Housing Utilities Sector Damir Shaydullin informed about statistics on the collection of utility bills payments from the population and data on the payment discipline of enterprises and organizations of the republic.
On 27 March, speaking at a ceremonial event dedicated to celebrations of the Day of Russian National Guard held at the Kazan City Hall with participation of the Chief of the Office of the Staff of the Rais of the republic Asgat Safarov, heads of law-enforcement bodies of the republic and veterans and employees of the territorial Directorate of the National Guard, Tatarstan Prime Minister Aleksey Pesoshin said that the Russian National Guard Directorate for the republic Republic of Tatarstan is traditionally acknowledged as one of the best in the country.