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These are everyone's celebrations, and this is an event that takes place on a national scale. At the celebrations commemorating Kazan's 1000th anniversary, Vladimir Putin declared that this is the anniversary of one of the most ancient centres of Eurasian civilization.

Kazan is the place where over the centuries a unique fusion of languages, traditions, customs, and cultures of the peoples of Russia has taken place.

The principles of both national and religious tolerance became central to the formation of the Russian state.

In Russia, different sets of traditions, languages, and cultures have always lived in harmony and resulted in mutual enrichment. This experience and advantage has been used to create a fundamentally new, federal Russian state.

The development of relations between the federal centre and the subjects of the Federation has once again proved the strength and historical unity of the Russian multinational nation.