President of Kalmykia Kirsan Ilyumzhinov intends to buy Diego Maradona
December 18, 1996
Sport
December 17, 1996 at a press conference in Elista, President of Kalmykia Kirsan Ilyumzhinov said that next year intends to bring in the big league football club “Uralan”.
To this end, President of Kalmykia Kirsan Ilyumzhinov intends to buy Diego Maradona. (more…)
Second Dalai Lama’s visit in the Elista, Kalmykia
September 19, 1992
During his second visit to Kalmykia (Elista) in September 1992 His Holiness the XIV Dalai Lama said, “The aim of my visit is to establish harmony: harmony with the environment, harmony among religions, harmony in the society and family and, – in the end, harmony of a man with his own self. I am stressing a great importance of this because everything depends on harmony in the world”.
All traditional beliefs co-exist organically in the Kalmyk society. Reviving national culture (more…)
Dalai Lama XIV in Kalmykia
July 30, 1991
His Holiness the XIV Dalai Lama’s visit in the summer of 1991 became a marvelous in the life of the steppe republic.
The Bodhisattva of Compassion Dalai Lama stepped on the Kalmyk land for the first time during centuries-old history of Oirat-Kalmyks. Extremely deep love, joy, kindless towards the Teacher expressed by our reserved people was felt every where. (more…)