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The International Project of Dorji Pompaev
Kalmykia News: Would you like to learn to dance salsa with a passionate Spanish or with a hot Argentinian? I’m sure you would, even if you have no experience.
Two years ago I’ve decided to set up my own studio with dance teachers from other countries and cities. Without thinking, I went to New York to find some. I visited several dozens of studios, met many different choreographers and realized that it was the first step of creating something big.
That is how ‘World Dance Travel’ was created in New York. Read the rest of this entry »
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A film about Kalmykia “The Gulls” will represent Russia in Berlin
Film “The Gulls”
Elza lives in a small town Lagan in the Republic of Kalmykia on the Caspian Sea.
Another year comes to an end, it’s cold and the steppe is covered in a thin layer of snow. When her husband, who makes a living from illegal fishing, asks her one night what she did during the day, she lies. She wasn’t at her mother’s, but at the bus stop. She thought of leaving – to find out what it might be to escape the infinite expanse of her dreary small world. But she didn’t dare; instead she stays and withdraws into herself, unconcerned by who might see.
One day, her husband doesn’t return from a dangerous boat trip. Read the rest of this entry »
Giants of the Ice Age in Kalmykia
Exhibition ‘Giants of the Ice Age’ in Kalmykia!
Mammoth, saber-toothed cat ferocious Smilodon, ground sloth-megatherium, flightless bird-diatrima, zveroyascher dicynodonts, waterfowl plesiosaur, flying Pteranodon, Tyrannosaurus…
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