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Sights
Sights of Kalmykia 
Golden Abode of Buddha Shakyamuni
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Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has decided to take 15 loaves Kalmyk sausages in Moscow
[ En | Ru | Es ] Our Kalmyk sausage produced at Trinity meat factory, so liking the head of state, that he took her to Moscow. Most Russian President Dmitry Medvedev liked the sausage “Presidential”.
A small exhibition of local producers for the president arranged in a Chess Palace (New Vasyuki) near Elista. More than anything Kalmyk ENEA Dmitry Medvedev stand like “Trinity slaughterhouse.”
– That these sausages look appetizing, I would like to try – the President said, pointing to a sort of “Presidential.” Read the rest of this entry »
Celebration of 10 years of Chess City
The official proclamation by Ignatius Leong, FIDE General Secretary, declares:
“In the steppes was built the world’s first ever ‘chess city‘ which housed the foreign visitors who witnessed how a small city with a small population provided one of the best hospitality to the world chess community. I am sure the visitors today Read the rest of this entry »
Al Jazeera’s Jonah Hull travels to the Republic of Kalmykia to meet Kirsan Ilyumzhinov
Al Jazeera’s Jonah Hull travels to the Republic of Kalmykia to meet Kirsan Ilyumzhinov, the president of the only Buddhist state in Europe.
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King of Kalmykia
King of Kalmykia
Tom Parfitt
The Guardian, Thursday 21 September 2006
Life is not all plain sailing for Kirsan Ilyumzhinov, the flamboyant leader of the Russian republic of Kalmykia. For a start, his Rolls-Royce Silver Spirit II needs constant repairs thanks to the rutted roads of his impoverished fiefdom. And then there is the danger of alien abduction. He has already been pressganged into one trip on a UFO – in Read the rest of this entry »
