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Border guards, police and FSB officers seized more than 4 tons of carp without documents in Kalmykia
In the Republic of Kalmykia, border guards, police and FSB officers seized more than 4 tons of carp without documents. The fish was intended for delivery to North Ossetia-Alania. Read the rest of this entry »
Kalmykia history
The Kalmyks originate from Central Asia. Their ancestors — the Oirats — belonged to the western branch of Mongolian peoples and represented a very powerful alliance of tribes which were formations of the early feudal state under which dominion the whole Mongolia was in the first half of XV сentury. Consequently interregional conflicts and a number of military bad lucks caused the reduction of Oirat Empire.
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