Republic of Kalmykia

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Video about Kalmykia. Europe’s only Buddhist land.

After watching the movie the new head of the republic Alexei Orlov, formally appealed to the Kirsan Ilyumzhinov with a proposal to head the government of Kalmykia, in which he refused.

Kirsan Ilyumzhinov said in his reply speech, during the years of the regional leaders he has fulfilled all the promises made and now he has “other business and other plans.” Read the rest of this entry »

Al Jazeera’s Jonah Hull travels to the Republic of Kalmykia to meet Kirsan Ilyumzhinov, the president of the only Buddhist state in Europe.