Rustam Minnikhanov hands over state scholarships to winners of the festival “Sozvezdie-Yoldyzlyk”
1 June 2015, Monday
On June 1, Interim President of the Republic of Tatarstan Rustam Minnikhanov handed over state scholarships to winners of the 15th youth festival of variety art “Sozvezdie-Yoldyzlyk” at the Kazan Kremlin.
“It is a great privilege for me to summarize results of a unique contest “Sozvezdie-Yoldyzlyk” and hand over awards to the winners. The contest enables finding talented people all over the republic, and we help to promote them,” Rustam Minnikhanov said.
For many years this contest has been supported by many youth organizations and ministries, cultural workers, heads of municipal regions, and teachers.
Special scholarships were granted to winners in the nominations “Vocal”, “Vocal ensembles”, “Vocal solo”, “Choreography”, and “Stand-up”. Most performances were dedicated to the 70th anniversary of the Great Victory.
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.
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