On 11 July in the Kazan Kremlin Tatarstan State Counselor Mintimer Shaimiev had a meeting with the Russian government official Vladimir Shevchenko, the former Chief Protocol Officer of Russian President and the former Counselor to the Russian President.
At the meeting Mintimer Shaimiev handed in the Medal “100 years of the Establishment of TASSR” to Vladimir Shevchenko for his great contribution into strengthening the social and economic capacity of Tatarstan.