Posts Tagged ‘Moscow’

King of Kalmykia

King of Kalmykia

Tom Parfitt
The Guardian, Thursday 21 September 2006

King of Kalmykia 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 Read the rest of this entry »

Seminar “Basics of Business Communication” for members of the organization “Leaders of Kalmykia”

Employee of the State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation Sanal Tsatkhlanov held a seminar “Basics of Business Communication” for members of the organization “Leaders of Kalmykia”.

Sanal Tsatkhlanov originally from Yashkul city, graduated from the International Law Department of MGIMO, worked in Russian embassies in Saudi Arabia and the Seychelles. Read the rest of this entry »

Democratic designer Sultanna Frantsuzova open new stores in Moscow

Sultanna Frantsuzova Most democratic designer Sultanna Frantsuzova (russian: Султанна Французова) from Elista, fashionable thing from which one can buy for less than a thousand rubles, open new stores in Moscow – October 7, at the Leningrad avenue, 12, and in early December – on Smolensky Boulevard, 7, reports KalmykiaNews.

These will be, respectively, Read the rest of this entry »

CPC Signs Inter Connection Agreement with ZAO State Investment Company Kalmtek

Oil fields 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 »

Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia Aleksey II visited Kalmykia

In 1997 Kalmykia visited St. Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia Aleksey II, who came to a solemn opening of the main republician orthodox church – the Kazan Cathedral. Read the rest of this entry »

I was started the first capitalist revolution in the country

Kirsan Ilyumzhinov Kirsan Ilyumzhinov: I was started the first capitalist revolution in the country!

– “Enough of our hush-hush talks,” I said. “The campaign must be fair and above-board. Let our programs compete openly. As for the people they’ll decide for themselves what is best for them.” Read the rest of this entry »

Kirsan Ilyumzhinov about Communism in Soviet Union

Kirsan Ilyumzhinov Kirsan Ilyumzhinov about Communism in Soviet Union. We students had free access to many western publications. A number of articles on UFOs, on they way in which a person’s individuality manifests itself in their handwriting, on the experience of clinical death, on clairvoyance and bio-energy, aroused my interest and I became an avid reader of everything dedicated to these enigmatic phenomena. I spent my evenings translating articles and notes from the foreign press and in the mornings I hurried back to the institute.

That is not to say that I was a total square, who poured over books constantly, diligently took notes in lectures, was never late for class and never played truant. I was a normal Soviet student; I liked to go dancing, I had been Read the rest of this entry »

First casino was opened in Kalmykia

First casino was opened in Elista, the capital of Republic of Kalmykia.

Casino was opened for rich man from Elista, Volgograd, Rostov-on-Don, Krasnodar, Moscow and Saint Petersburg. Read the rest of this entry »