During the visit to the Kostroma region,  Chairman of the National Council Vasil Shaykhraziev visited the Tatar settlement in Kostroma. According to documents, it was founded in 1680, on the very banks of the Volga. More than 200 people were resettled here from the Roman Tatars from the Romanovsky district of the Yaroslavl province. At one time, a mosque worked here, also a madrassah.                             

On February 18, a gala concert of the II International Literary Contest "Jalilov Readings" will be held at the Saydash Cultural Center. The competition was held by the World Tatars Congress with the assistance of the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Tatarstan, as well as the Ministry of Education and Science of the Republic of Tatarstan.

Today, within the framework of the program of a working visit to the Kostroma region,  Deputy Prime Minister of the Republic of Tatarstan, Chairman of the National Council of the VKT, Vasil Shaykhraziev met with the leaders and representatives of the Tatar public organizations of the Central Federal District.

Tatarstan President Rustam Minnikhanov agreed with composer Igor Krutoy that one day of the New Wave festival in Kazan will be dedicated to Tatar music. This was told by  head of the press service of the President of the Republic of Tatarstan Liliya Galimova, answering a question from the correspondent of Tatar-inform.

On the YouTube channel "Tatars of the World" the first issue  of the same name was released with the famous Tatar actor and deputy of the State Council of the Republic Ramil Tukhvatullin. In the program, political scientist Ruslan Aisin discusses with the guest about the national theater and cinema.

Deputy Prime Minister of the Republic of Tatarstan, Chairman of the National Council Vasil Shaykhraziev in the city of Kostroma was met by compatriots. Today, a number of events are planned here. Also a meeting with the leadership of the region.  Chairman of the National Council will visit the memorial mosque in Kostroma, the Tatar settlement.

In Kazan, the Museum of Islamic Culture of the Kazan Kremlin Museum-Reserve presents an exposition of works by Tatar artist-decorator Lira Suleiman.

February 15, 2020 (Saturday) in the cinema house of Rostov-on-Don, only one day, the first "Festival of modern Tatar cinema."

At the end of last week,  head of the Krasnoyostrovsk rural administration of the Nizhny Novgorod region, Maksut Alimov, organized an inter-district chess tournament in the Sechenov Olympic sports complex dedicated to the memory of his famous fellow countryman, the only USSR master of sports in chess and drafts, Rashid Nezhmetdinov.

Tatar designer Ratmir Akhiyarov is participating in the competition for the best mascot of the All-Russian Population Census to be held in October.