On behalf of the National Council of the World Tatars Congress and on my own behalf, I cordially congratulate you on Defender of the Fatherland Day!

In the city of Karakol, the Kyrgyz Republic celebrated Mother Language Day. The main participants in the event were ethnic groups. The festival dedicated to the International Mother Language Day was held based on the work of Ch. T. Aitmatov “White Steamboat - The World of Children's Dreams”.

The mother tongue is the main mechanism for personal self-development, said Farid Mukhametshin, Chairman of the State Council of the Republic of Tatarstan, Chairman of the Council of the Assembly of the People of Tatarstan in his congratulation on the Day of the Mother Tongue addressed to residents of the republic.

On February 22, at 13:30, a ceremony of laying flowers at the monument to the great Tatar poet G. Tukay will be held in Moscow. The event will be held as part of the celebration of the International Mother Language Day. It was proclaimed by the UNESCO General Conference in November 1999 and is celebrated annually on February 21 to promote linguistic and cultural diversity.

The meeting of  Deputy Prime Minister of Tatarstan,  Chairman of the National Council Vasil Shaykhraziev with compatriots was held at the building of the Museum of History and Art of the Kaliningrad Region.

These days, the delegation of Tatarstan, headed by  Deputy Prime Minister of the Republic of Tatarstan, Chairman of the National Council of the World Tatars Congress, Vasil Shaykhraziev, is in the city of Kaliningrad.

Kazan honored the memory of the outstanding Tatar poet Fatih Karim. A solemn meeting with the laying of flowers at the memorial plaque at the house number 8 on Mislavsky St. was dedicated to the 75th anniversary of the death of the poet in World War II. It was from this house on December 30, 1941 that Fatih Karim went to the front.

On February 18,  Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Syrian Arab Republic to the Russian Federation, Riad Haddad, arrived in Nizhnevartovsk on a working visit. According to the Department of Public and External Relations, he became a member of the third international scientific and practical forum "Oil Capital".

A concert dedicated to the 100th anniversary of the Tatar ASSR was held in Altat. The concert, organized by the public organization RTNCA of the Saratov region and OMTO “Sarytau gathered a full house at the local recreation center.

Deputy Prime Minister of the Republic of Tatarstan, Chairman of the National Council of the World Tatars Congress V.G. Shaikhraziev continues working trips to the federal districts of Russia. In the next two days, he will spend in the Northwestern Federal District. Today Vasil Shaikhraziev arrived in Kaliningrad.