Republic of Kalmykia

Foreign policy

Since September 24, the Kalmyk State University is hosting a seminar “Innovative technologies in teaching German” organized Kalmyk State University and Kalmyk Republican Institute for Advanced Training in Education for school teachers and high school teachers, informed International department of KalmykiaNews. Read the rest of this entry »

Representative of the Goethe-Institut Sklenar Judith Jenkes-Steinhübl (Judith Keyler-Mayer) from Munich (Germany) arrived in Kalmykia, to Kalmyk State University.

Information: Munich, Germany’s third largest city and the capital of the Free State of Bavaria, is indisputably Read the rest of this entry »

In celebration of the 20th anniversary of founding of the Friends of Tibet Society (FTS) in Kalmyk Republic, a variety of public events, such as seminars, lectures and teaching on the Buddhist philosophy and cultural heritage, exhibition, film screening and talks on Tibet were organized recently in Elista, capital of Kalmyk Republic in Russian Federation, reported Central Tibetan Administration (Dharamsala).

The Flame of Truth torch and Tibetan delegation, led by Representative Ngawang Rabgyal and Read the rest of this entry »

Management of JSC “Falcon Capital” donated Kazan Cathedral of Kalmykia icon of St. Panteleimon. In due time, the Orthodox relic was written in a monastery on the Holy Mount Athos (Greece) and presented to the President of the Czech company Panteleimon Mamaladze. July 10 brought the icon to Elista, reports KalmykiaNews.

“For us, this event is very important, because the image of St. Panteleimon, written in the spiritual center of Orthodox monasticism – on the Mount Athos. In the future, in Elista planned construction of a new cathedral, and in it Read the rest of this entry »

Foreign tourists have come to Elista driving BMW motorcycles. On 9 of June the city of Elista (Kalmykia) has been visited by the foreign tourists with BMW motorcycles Hannes Grundner and Karola Kien both coming from Vienna (Austria), says the Kalmyk information and tourist centre “Kalmykia.EU”.

In the blessed Elista, he Austrian tourists Hannes Grundner and Karola Kien had been met by the official Kalmyk representatives from the companies KalmykiaTour and KalmykiaNews.

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The representatives of the “National Geographic” magazine have come to Kalmykia.

The representatives of the “National Geographic” magazine linguists Dr. David Harrison and Dr. Anderson, photographer Chris Rainier, and Jeremy Fahringer have come to Kalmykia in order to to get acquainted with the speakers of the national language.The linguists and anthropologists came to the steppe Read the rest of this entry »

Russian-Kazakhstan International Conference “Actual Problems of Socio-Economical development of the Caspian Region in the Context of Innovation Economics”

On May 18th, 2012 in the House of the Government of the Republic of Kalmykia Read the rest of this entry »

The Chessman Cometh [ En | Ru ]

An interview with globe-trotting chess promoter, former president, and freelance diplomat Kirsan Ilyumzhinov.

INTERVIEW BY JOSHUA E. KEATING. MAY 9, 2012

Kirsan Ilyumzhinov garners an awful lot of press for the president of the World Chess Federation. But he’s not exactly your average chess buff. From 1993 to 2010, he was president of the Russian republic of Kalmykia and became known for his efforts to transform the remote Buddhist region into an international chess mecca as well as for his frank comments about an encounter with aliens he claims to have had in 1997. (He was also widely criticized for his autocratic rule over the impoverished republic.) Read the rest of this entry »

Head of the NATO Information Office Robert Pszczel visited the Republic of Kalmykia. It was an unofficial visit, reports KalmykiaNews.

Head of the NATO Information Office Robert Pszczel visited the Republic of Kalmykia and during a television interview in detail answered Read the rest of this entry »

The first astronaut of the Mongolia Zhugderdemidiyn Gurragcha visited the central khurul Kalmykia (Golden temple), reports KalmykiaNews.

Elista, Kalmykia

The Ambassador and the monks of Sri Lanka visited the main Buddhist temple in Kalmykia.

Today, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka in the Russian Federation Mr. Udayanga Weeratunga, monks, FIDE President Kirsan Ilyumzhinov, Deputy of State Duma of the Marina Mukabenova visited central temple of Kalmykia “Golden Abode of Buddha Shakyamuni“. Read the rest of this entry »

Puzzle Europe. The Kalmyk Ilyumzhinov mourns the death of his friend Colonel and trusts eldest son Mohammed, who he should run for office. And give good news to know exactly where he is hiding.

‘I know where Gaddafi’s son and I advised him to stand for election’.

This is the statement made in Izvestia last friend of the Colonel, Kirsan Ilyumzhinov, head of the World Chess Federation and former president of the Russian republic of Kalmykia. He was the last leader to meet Gaddafi during the war, the time mangiargli two horses and a king and to be filmed by the cameras of the Rais. Read the rest of this entry »

On a visit to Elista, the President of Mongolia Tsakhia Elbegdorj visited the main Buddhist temple (khurul) of Kalmykia “Golden Abode of Buddha Shakyamuni”, where he met with the head of the Buddhist republic Shadzhin Lama Telo Tulku Rinpoche.

The President of Mongolia, the state, which is the traditional religion of Buddhism, brought the ritual scarves (Hudack) to set the prayer hall of the 9-meter statue of Buddha Shakyamuni, in deference to the founder of the Buddhist faith and the throne of His Holiness the Dalai Lama XIV, the highest religious leader of Mongolia and Kalmykia. Read the rest of this entry »

Kirsan Ilyumzhinov bring in Kalmykia relics of Shakyamuni Buddha. During his official visit to Sri Lanka, the first President of the Republic of Kalmykia, FIDE President visited the ancient fortress city of Sigiriya, attended a service at the church of the Sacred Tooth Relic.

During the conversation with the abbot of the temple had been agreed that, in deference to the merits of the Buddhist Republic of Kalmykia in the spread of Buddhism in the republic will be brought relics of Shakyamuni Buddha, as well as the germ of a sacred tree Jaya Sri Maha Bodhi, nurtured, according to the legend of the ridge tree under which the Buddha Sakyamuni was enlightened, and brought to Sri Lanka in 288 BC Emperor Ashoka. Read the rest of this entry »

President FIDE visited Thailand [ De ]

The former president of Kalmykia and president FIDE Kirsan Ilyumzhinov visited Thailand. In Bangkok, capital of Thailand, president FIDE Kirsan Ilyumzhinov has meeting with headers of Chess Federatoin of Thailand.

Working travel to Thailand

In this visit to Thailand, also on the same day, in the framework of the visit, Kirsan Ilyumzhinov, in Bangkok, Read the rest of this entry »