Rustam Minnikhanov met with chairman of RF Union cinemakers chairman Nikita Mikhalkov

President of Tatarstan Rustam Minnikhanov met with chairman of RF Union cinemakers chairman Nikita Mikhalkov. The meeting took place in House of RT Government.

Nikita Mikhalkov is on one-day working visit in Kazan. In the morning together with President of Tatarstan Rustam Minnikhanov and other officials he participated in ceremony of laying flowers to the Eternal Flame in Victory Park in Kazan (Day of memory and sorrow dedicated to 70-anniversary of beginning of Great Patriotic War).

Issues of developing domestic cinematography, cooperation of Tatarstan with RF Union cinemakers were discussed in the course of communication with Head of Tatarstan. RT Minister of culture Airat Sibagatullin, Head of Department on issues of internal policy at RT President Staff Aleksandr Terentiev attended the meeting.

In the evening Nikita Mikhalkov is going to take part in a meeting with veterans of Great Patriotic War and labor, representatives of creative intellectuals and the youth. The film «Burnt by the sun 2: Citadel» will be demonstrated later on (Kazan, “Suvar-Plasa”). Rustam Minnikhanov is meant to take part in the event as well.