Silja Rachimjanowna Walejewa

Silja Rachimjanowna Walejewa (2008)

Cyrillic ( Tatar )
	Зилә Вәлиева
Cyrillic ( Russian )
	Зи́ля Рахимья́новна Вале́ева
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Silja Rachimjanowna Walejewa (born October 15, 1952 in Ufa , Bashkir ASSR , RSFSR ) is a Russian politician. She was Deputy Prime Minister from 2001 to 2012 and Minister of Culture of the Republic of Tatarstan from 2005 to 2011 . Since May 2012 she has been heading the State Museum of the Kazan Kremlin . She is chairman of the UNESCO Commission of the Republic of Tatarstan and chairwoman of the “Women of Tatarstan”.

Life and politics

Walejewa studied journalism at Lomonossow University in Moscow until 1978 . In 2010 she received her PhD with a philosophical thesis at the Kazan State University . From 1970 to 1992 she worked as a journalist, first for the youth newspaper Leninets in Ufa and finally as a political editor for the Kazan edition of the Izvestia newspaper .

In 1992 Valeyeva became First Deputy Chairwoman of the Supreme Soviet of the Republic of Tatarstan, in 1995 Deputy Chairwoman of the State Council and in 1999 Minister of Press, Radio and Mass Media of the Republic. Two years later Valejewa became Deputy Prime Minister, an office in which she was also Minister of Culture and Chairwoman of the UNESCO Commission of Tatarstan from 2005 to 2011.

On May 16, 2012, Valeeva Deputy Prime Minister resigned to take over the management of the Kazan Kremlin.

Her Tatar and Russian awards include the Order of Friendship .

Web links

• tatarstan.ru: Zilya Valeeva . (English; as of 2005)
• Valeeva Zilya Rakhimyanovna. (English; as of 2002)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Sergey Kogogin is recognized as the “leader man” in Tatarstan . (11 March 2019)
2. ↑ Объявления о защитах диссертаций. (Russian, accessed on March 29, 2019)
3. ↑ unesco.ru: Republic of Tatarstan . (accessed March 29, 2019)
4. ↑ The Kazan Herald: Now Deputy PM, Safarov In Charge of Universiade Security . (June 8, 2012)