Irek Murtazin

Sonntag, 05. April 1964

Irek Minzakievich Murtazin (Tatar: Cyrillic Ирек Мортазин, Latin İrek Mortazin: Russian: Ирек Минзакиевич Муртазин; born 5 April 1964, Bogatye Saby, Sabinskii region, Tatar ASSR) is a journalist and blogger, specialist of the International Institute of Research in Policy and the Humanities (Russian: Международного Института гуманитарно-политических исследований) in Moscow and, since September 2008, publisher of the newspaper Kazan News (Russian: Казанские вести). Murtazin previously served as director of the Minsk bureau of the Russian state television station "Russia" (2003–2004), director of the state television station "Tatarstan" (2002–2003), and press secretary of the president of the Republic of Tatarstan, Mintimer Shaimiev (1999–2002).