Posts Tagged ‘Japan’
Kato Hinako held a master classes on Japanese calligraphy and ikebana
May 24 at the Institute Oriental Studies and Kalmyk Philology met students and teachers with Kato Hinako – Director of the Institute of Foreign Languages, Tokyo (Japan), reports KalmykiaNews.
Kato Hinako held a master classes on Japanese calligraphy and ikebana (flower arrangements).
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African students celebrate New Year in Kalmykia
[ De | Es ] African students celebrate New Year in Kalmykia. On the eve of the New Year holiday, they enrich your vocabulary. Father Frost, Snow Maiden, Christmas tree – these words are familiar to students, report KalmykiaNews agency.
That foreign students have learned the subject better, teacher Vasily Kolodko uses games and visual aids. Read the rest of this entry »
FIDE chief Kirsan Ilyumzhinov and Ashmore Group set up a joint fund
The President of the World Chess Federation and ex-president of Russia’s Republic of Kalmykia, Kirsan Ilyumzhinov is reportedly going to set up a $10 billion investment fund with UK major Ashmore Group.
Ex-president of Russia’s Republic of Kalmykia Kirsan Ilymzhinov and Ashmore CEO Mark Coombs signed an agreement in London, reports Kommersant Daily. The joint fund would develop projects in Russia, CIS and East Asian countries such as Malaysia, Singapore and Japan, focusing on energy, telecommunications, metals and food industries.
The initial capital of the fund would be $1 billion, and then it would be increased up to $10 billion. The fund plans to attract foreign investment Read the rest of this entry »
The Chessman Cometh
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 »
Meeting of the Goose Specialist Group
13th meeting of the Goose Specialist Group
From Thursday 24 March to Tuesday 29 March 2011 the 13th meeting of the Goose Specialist Group of the IUCN-SSC was held in conjunction with the 4th meeting of the Russian Goose, Swan and Duck Study Group (GSDSG) of northern Eurasia in Elista, Kalmykia (Russian Federation).
Russian style Exopolitics – Kirsan Ilyumzhinov’s alien abduction
Exopolitics (literally politics out of this world) has become a buzz word among some ufologists in the U.S., Europe and Latin America, but in Russia’s rough and tumble political world the subject of alien abductions erupted without any need of lobbyists calling for UFO disclosure.
The international media reported widely last May that Andrei Lebedev, a member of Parliament for the nationalist Liberal Democratic Party, wrote a letter to President Medvedev in reaction to a disclosure by Kirsan Ilyumzhinov, head of the Buddhist Kalmykia region in southern Russia, Read the rest of this entry »
Delegation from Japan presented to the President of FIDE and Republic of Kalmykia Kirsan Ilyumzhinov Japanese swords
News from Kalmykia: Delegation from Japan presented to the President of FIDE and Republic of Kalmykia Kirsan Ilyumzhinov Japanese swords, reports KalmykiaNews.
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My cherished dream is to see Kalmykia blossoming
My dream is to turn Kalmykia into a republic in which citizens are proud to live just as in America, England, Japan or France.
We must do everything we can to ensure that our children can say with pride: “I live in Kalmykia”. Everyone must begin to think of his or herself as a resident of Kalmykia first, and only then a Chechen, Darghin, Russian, Kalmyk or Ukrainian. Your little homeland, the land on which Read the rest of this entry »
In Kalmykia was created the Society of Friendship “Kalmykia – Japan”
May 17, 1995 hosted the historic first meeting on the establishment of the Friendship Society “Kalmykia – Japan”, reports KalmykiaNews.
At a meeting attended by about 50 people.
Founders were:
Kirsan Ilyumzhinov – Honorary President of the Society, the Head of the Republic of Kalmykia Read the rest of this entry »
