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Today a group of tourists from Southeast Asia visited Elista, the capital of the Republic of Kalmykia, according to the head of the Department of Culture and Tourism of the National Tourism Portal of Kalmykia.

A youth group of tourists from Southeast Asia visited the Republic of Kalmykia to relax and see the sights of Elista and Kalmykia. Read the rest of this entry »

Turkmenistan is a country located in Central Asia, bordered by Kazakhstan to the northwest, Uzbekistan to the north, east and northeast, Afghanistan to the southeast, Iran to the south and southwest and the Caspian Sea to the west.

Ashgabat is the capital and largest city of Turkmenistan.

The population is about 6 million, the lowest of the Central Asian republics, and Turkmenistan is one of the most sparsely populated nations in Asia. Read the rest of this entry »

North Korea

The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea is a state in East Asia, commonly known by its unofficial name of North Korea. Read the rest of this entry »

Philippines

The Philippines is an island nation in Southeast Asia.

There are over 7,600 islands in the Philippines, of which about 2,000 are uninhabited islands.
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Maldives Islands

Exotic islands

Maldives, officially the Republic of Maldives, is a small archipelagic state in South Asia, situated in the Arabian Sea of the Indian Ocean.

It lies southwest of Sri Lanka and India, about 700 kilometres (430 mi) from the Asian continent’s mainland. The chain of 26 atolls stretches from Ihavandhippolhu Atoll in the north to Addu Atoll in the south (across the Equator). Read the rest of this entry »

Coming to Kalmykia to receive a higher education is an unusual decision. What made hundreds of foreign students choose Elista? “Most people here are kind, spiritually they are very rich,” Luke Kahe shared his observations about the locals. Foreigners told a correspondent of RIA “Kalmykia” why they came to obtain knowledge in Elista.
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Sri Lanka

Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka

Sri Lanka is a state in South Asia, on the island of the same name off the southeast coast of Hindustan. From the time of Portuguese invasion and until 1972 in European languages ​​the country was called Ceylon (from the Portuguese Ceilao). Sri Lanka means “glorious, blessed land” in Sanskrit. Read the rest of this entry »

Thailand, historically known as Siam, officially the Kingdom of Thailand, is a country in Southeast Asia spanning 513,120 square kilometres (198,120 sq mi), with a population of almost 70 million.

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Heilan Equestrian Club

Heilan Equestrian Club is an equestrian club located in Xinqiao Town, Jiangyin City in Jiangsu, China. Zhou Jianping is the president of the club. Heilan Equestrian Club covers an area of 400 mu (0.26 km2).

Initial investments in the construction of the complex amounted Read the rest of this entry »

Mongolia

Mongolia is a landlocked country in East Asia. Its area is roughly equivalent with the historical territory of Outer Mongolia, and that term is sometimes used to refer to the current state. It is sandwiched between China to the south and Russia to the north. Mongolia does not share a border with Kazakhstan, although only 37 kilometres (23 mi) separates them. Read the rest of this entry »

Home Credit Bank has opened a new office in Elista.

Since 1997 Home Credit Group (Home Credit B.V. and its subsidiaries) has rapidly established itself as a market leader in consumer finance, entering attractive and high growth markets ahead of its competitors, focusing on the key growth regions Read the rest of this entry »

Most democratic designer Sultanna Frantsuzova (russian: Султанна Французова) from Elista. Read the rest of this entry »

On 23 of October the FIDE President Kirsan Ilyumzhinov (First President of Kalmykia) had a working visit to Dubai.

The FIDE President billionaire Kirsan Ilyumzhinov (First President of Kalmykia) had a meeting with Sheikh Nahyan bin Mubarak Al Nahyan, Minister of Higher Education and Scientific Research of the United Arab Emirates. A chess development in the country was discussed during the meeting. A special attention was paid to the introduction of chess to the school curriculum.

On the same day FIDE President Kirsan Ilyumzhinov left for Damascus Read the rest of this entry »

Yesterday the 1st President of the Republic of Kalmykia, FIDE President Kirsan Ilyumzhinov visited Azerbaijan on a working visit, where in Baku he met with H.E. Ilham Aliyev, president of the Republic of Azerbaijan. During the meeting, the issues of chess development, in particular the realisation of the Azerbaijan government programme for chess development in 2009-2014, were discussed.

Mr. Kirsan Ilyumzhinov stated that this programme is a good model of the proper government attitude to chess development for other countries. Read the rest of this entry »

French version

Today, in Moscow (Russia) was startes contest “Miss Asia Moscow“. In contest “Miss Asia Moscow” girls from Kalmykia, Buryatia, Tyva, Altaj, Khakasia, Yakutia, Korea, Mongolia, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan.

Yana Chenkuraeva. Girl from Kalmykia more photos >>

http://www.missasiamoscow.ru/golosovanie-1/ Vote for Kalmykia! Read the rest of this entry »