Mintimer Shaimiev meets Leonid Tolchinsky

On July 13, at his meeting with Director General of Tatar-inform agency Leonid Tolchinsky, Tatarstan State Counsellor Mintimer Shaimiev congratulated him on the 25th anniversary of the agency and thanked for successful and effective work in the information space of the republic and the country.

“You cover the most important and interesting events about life of the republic creating our big history by everyday hard work,” Shaimiev said.
Tolchinsky told that the agency was founded on June 6, 1990 in accordance with the decree of Tatar regional committee of Communist party of the Soviet Union, and first secretary of the regional committee Mintimer Shaimiev signed the document.

Tolchinsky continued that due to that decision they managed to create a new format of presenting the latest information in Tatar and Russian.
Leonid Tolchinsky handed over the medal “For news reporting” with the Tatar-inform logotype to Shaimiev.