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TV channel Hamdan was started in Kalmykia.

Kalmyk girl on the Festival “Miss Tourism of the Globe” [ Es ]

Beautiful kalmyk girl Natalia Ochirova became one of the winners ‘Miss Tourism of the Globe’!

All winners:

Miss Tourism of the Globe 2004 – Bargjo Enkelejda (Albania) Read the rest of this entry »

BBC News

Russia says it is granting a visa to the Tibetan exiled spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, for the first time since the collapse of the USSR.

This will allow him to visit the large Buddhist population in southern Kalmykia region.

Dalai Lama visited Soviet Russia in 1991, but since then Moscow has bowed to Chinese pressure and denied him a visa. Read the rest of this entry »

Okna Tsahan Zam new album “Shaman Voices”

“A journey in the steppe”

Ethnic songs, Throat singing, overtone singing.

Claude Samard Polikar.
France, 2004.

“East-West fusion with a difference… done in a vastly better way than any other fusion with overtone singing that I’ve heard.”
Geoff Burton (UK fRoots magazine) Read the rest of this entry »

Businessmen from the United Arab Emirates (UAE) are ready to assist in the development of International Airport ‘Elista’.

This was announced the head of the delegation of the United Arab Emirates, the head of Immigration Service of Dubai (UAE) Saeed Matar Saeed Bin Belaila at a press conference in Elista during the visit to Kalmykia. Read the rest of this entry »

CPC Signs Inter Connection Agreement With ZAO State Investment Company KalmTEK. Russian Crude Will Soon Start To Be Pumped By CPC.

The Caspian Pipeline Consortium (CPC) and the state investment company KalmTEK today reached agreement that will provide for the first shipment of crude oil, extracted from Russian deposits, through the CPC network. This agreement exercises the Russian Federation access rights to CPC. Read the rest of this entry »

Investigative reporters are the poster-children of the journalistic world. Political reporters get to rub shoulders with the high ‘n’ mighty, business journalists rub shoulders with the titans of the corporate world, those on the society beat get to attend the fanciest parties, but at the end of the day it is everyone’s dream to make his or her name as an investigator. Read the rest of this entry »

Fedor Konyukhov expedition across the steppes of Kalmykia. In the group of 10 scientists: soil scientists, archaeologists, sociologists, botanists, ecologists, ornithologists and lawyers from France, Netherlands, Russia (Moscow) and the Kalmykia, reports Department of Foreign Relations of KalmykiaNews.

Fedor Konyukhov took care of the preservation of unique finds Read the rest of this entry »

In 2002 President of Kalmykia Kirsan Ilyumzhinov visited Dalai Lama XIV in Dharamsala (Dharmasala) to deliver in invitation to the Teacher to visit Kalmykia in September 2002, reported Kalmyk NewsPaper.

During his visits the President of the Republic of Kalmykia Kirsan Ilyumzhinov informed Dalai Lama XIV about the spiritual and social-economic programs Read the rest of this entry »

Chess is a required subject for all children in Kalmykia, a Buddhist region whose authoritarian president, Kirsan Ilyumzhinov, also happens to be the president of FIDE.

For years Kirsan Ilyumzhinov has been trying to make chess more appealing to television audiences by expediting the matches and encouraging running commentary. He even pushed successfully for mandatory drug testing for chess players Read the rest of this entry »

In compliance with the article 4 of the Law of the Republic of Kalmykia of September 12, 1991 №238–IX “On the assumption of an office of the President of the Republic of Kalmykia” and the article 8 of the Law of the Republic of Kalmykia of November 2, 1998 № 1–II–З “On the Government of the Republic of Kalmykia” the Government of the Republic of Kalmykia adopted the resolution of November 23, 2002 № 330 about it’s abdication before the newly-elected President of the Republic of Kalmykia.

The inauguration of the President of the Republic of Kalmykia Kirsan Iliumzhinov took place in Elista on Saturday November 23, 2002. It was held at the broadened session of the People’s Khural (Parliament) of the Republic of Kalmykia.

Kirsan Ilyumzhinov has been re-elected the President of the Republic of Kalmykia. For the third time he has had honour to swear alligiance to the people of the Republic of Kalmykia. The head of Kalmykia promised to protect the interests of the people of Kalmykia, to respect and to guard the human rights and liberties, to follow the Read the rest of this entry »

October 20, 2002.
Results of the first round of presidential elections in Republic of Kalmykia

Kirsan Ilyumzhinov 47,26 %
Baatr Shondzhiev 13,61 %
Nikolai Ochirov 12,76 %
Vitaly Daginov 8,63 % Read the rest of this entry »

Information department: Official web site of the Government of the Republic of Kalmykia launched successfully. Read the rest of this entry »

Yesterday held the meeting in Elista, the representatives of some political parties and the public, at which it was decided to nominate Kirsan Ilyumzhinov for another presidential term.

With the support of his candidacy were made by representatives of the Committee to support Kirsan Ilyumzhinov, the regional branch Read the rest of this entry »