Farid Khayrullovich Mukhametshin (also Farit Mokhametshin, Tatar

Tatar language

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: Färit Xäyrulla ulı Möxämmätşin, Russian

Russian language

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 Фарид Хайруллович Мухаметшин /Farid Khayrullovich Mukhametshin) (born May 22, 1947 in Almetyevsk

Almetyevsk

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Tatarstan

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 statesman and the former Prime Minister of Tatarstan.

He was elected in March 1994 to the upper chamber of the Federal Assembly of Russia

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He was Chairman of the Supreme Council and State Council of Tatarstan Republic July 1991–January 1995 and is the current Chairman of the State Council of Tatarstan Republic since May 27, 1998. Ethnic Tatar.