The Krasnoye selo (Red Village) to host events dedicated to the Day of lifting the blockade of Leningrad.

In Tashkent, within the framework of celebrations of the 25th anniversary of the Republican International Cultural Center (RICC), in the first half of the day the Republican scientific-practical conference on the theme "Independence of Uzbekistan - a new stage in the development of international relations" was held. The conference was attended by government representatives, prominent scholars, diplomats, and other officials. At the conference, director of RICC Muhammadiev N.M. presented the book-album "Uzbekistan - our common home", which includes information and photos about the activities of national cultural centers of the republic.

January 26, at 17.0,0 the exhibition of one of the brightest representatives of the Tatar community of the city Elmira Mustafina, called the "Golden City" will open in the premises of the Permanent Mission of the Republic of Tatarstan in St. Petersburg and Leningrad region.

January 21, 2017 (Saturday), Centre of Tatar culture of the city of Ulyanovsk hosted the conference of Tatar ethnographers of the Ulyanovsk region. It was attended by scientists from the Institute of History after Sh. Mardzhani and the Institute of Tatar Encyclopedia and Regional Studies of RT Academy of sciences.

At the library of national literatures, in the framework of cultural and educational project "Tatar Guest’s Room", organized by the Permanent Mission of the Republic of Tatarstan in St. Petersburg and the Leningrad region, an evening with a journalist, writer and social activist Rahim Khalilovic Telyashov took place.

January 17, at the school gymnasium of Bavly (Tatarstan) an enlarged meeting was held of the regional public organization Tatar women "Ak kalfak", which summed up the results of their work over the past yea

Vladimir Putin and Dmitry Medvedev met with the First president of Tatarstan, State Advisor of the Republic of Tatarstan, the Republican chairman of the Foundation Board of Trustees of the revival of monuments of history and culture of the Republic of Tatarstan Mintimer Shaimiev, on the eve of his 80th birthday.

Today in Kazan on the facade of the house № 3 on the Galaktionov street a plaque dedicated to Tatar writer Nabi Dauly has been installed.

The X inter-regional competition of the Tatar folk art named after Sardariya Nigamatova has been carried out in the framework of the Agreement between the Republic of Tatarstan and the Sverdlovsk region on cooperation in trade, economic, scientific, technical, environmental, humanitarian, cultural and other spheres for the 2015-2017 years, in accordance with the basic plan of events of the Sverdlovsk state regional Palace of folk art for the year 2017 in conjunction with the MUK "National cultural complex in Arakaevo".

In summer of next year in Paris Kazan will arrange a national holiday Sabantui.