State Counsellor of the Republic of Tatarstan and the first President of Tatarstan Mintimer Shaimiyev, left, performs a prayer during the 12th Republican Iftar at the Kazan Expo Exhibition Centre in the settlement of Bolshiye Kabany outside Kazan, Republic of Tatarstan, Russia. Iftar is the fast-breaking evening meal of believers during Islam's holy month of Ramadan.