Mintimer Shaimiyev served in the government of Tatarstan during Soviet times (1969-91) and was subsequently President of the republic for nearly 20 years. Oleg Pavlov talked to him about the past, the ...

President Mintimer Shaimiev and Gazprom head Rem Vyakhirev on 21 March in Kazan signed a five-year cooperation agreement, AK&M reported. Presidential adviser Renat Muslimov told AK&M that volumes of ...

Tatarstan President Mintimer Shaimiyev (file photo) (ITAR-TASS) January 20, 2007 -- President Vladimir Putin is visiting the Russian Republic of Tatarstan today for a meeting of the Tatar State ...

MOSCOW: The Quran kept at Russian city of Kazan's Qolsharif mosque has been awarded a Guinness World Records certificate for being the world's largest, Tatarstan's state councillor Mintimer Shaimiyev ...

16 January 2007 The award of this year's King Faisal International Prize for Service to Islam to Tataristan's President Mintimer Shaymiev has a significance which has probably not lost on the Kremlin.