Visit to Kazakhstan

Tourist Exhibition in Petropavlovsk

Head of the Republic of Kalmykia Alexey Orlov and minister of Economy and Trade Republic of Kalmykia Zoya Sandzhieva visited the exhibition “New Approaches and Trends in the Development of Tourism”, reported Department of culture.

President of Russia Vladimir Putin visited Kazakhstan too. (more…)

Andreas Neumann, head of the department for cooperation with CIS countries of Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology of Germany will visited Kalmykia.

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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 (more…)

First steps from socialism to capitalism

We were on the threshold of major fundamental change. The republic was precipitously turning towards the market. I was doing my utmost to employ, and modify, every policy that could be of use to Kalmykia. I wanted people to see the light at the end of the tunnel, as it were, and to feel some relief at last. These steps took a lot of painstaking effort. Every problem led to another one. A whole knot of contradictions! I had to single out the priorities. A severe centralization of power was needed.
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