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Event announces | 1) 15.02.2012: 55th anniversary of Eugene Tkachov, drum-player of Yat-Kha group (Russia) |
2) 22.02.2012: at dawn comes Shagaa, Buddist New Year (Tuva) |
3) 23.02.2012: Motherland defenders' Day |
4) 01.03.2012: 75th anniversary of Bizhek Kombu, poet, stone-carver (Moscow) |
5) 02.03.2012: 84th anniversary of Marzhymal Ondar (1928-1994), people's khoomeizhi, traditional instruments' maker (Tuva) |
6) 04.03.2012: Presidential Elections' Day (Russia) |
7) 08.03.2012: Mother's Day (Russia) |
8) 17.03.2012: 34th anniversary of Sean Quirk, Alash ensemble manager (Tuva) |
9) 10.04.2012: 87th anniversary of Mongush Kenin-Lopsan, prominent Tuvan shamanism researcher, historian, writer (Tuva) |
10) 12.04.2012: 86th anniversary from the birthdate of Sevyan Vainshtein (1926-2008), prominent Russian ethnographer (Moscow) | all dates |
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Posts of Fabruary 2006 
A total eclipse of the Sun is just round the corner. It is due on March 29, 2006. Earth dwellers have been observing a total solar eclipse, an extremely interesting astronomical phenomenon, for a few thousand years. However, scientists became capable of explaining the essence of solar eclipse just recently.A total solar eclipse occurs when the Moon is at or near perigee or the closest point in the orbit and the Moon appears large enough to cover the bright disk, photosphere, of the Sun completely.
in Moscow. The concert in the conference-hall of the building on the Novinski boulevard gathered almost a hundred diplomats, as Kongar-ool reported to 'Tuva-Online' The group tomorrow in the morning is heading for USA via Frankfurt. They are invited by the 
Moscow-based Tuvans greeted Shagaa two weeks later after the New Year according to the Moon Calendar was celebrated in Tuva. The tradition of the New Year festivities which was regular in the Russian capital in the old times were interrupted in 2004 after a large-scale Tuvan Shagaa was held in in the All-Russian Exhibition Centre. Thus it was long awaited and attracted hundreds of Tuvans of all ages.
A grand ceremony was held to launch "Year of Russia" Sunday on the occasion of China's Lantern Festival in Manzhouli City, China's leading inland port on the China-Russia border, in North China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region. 
Negative attitude toward snow leopards grows in Tuva where in the end of January a wild cat killed 65 sheep and left 25 wounded. It happened in Mongun-Taiga. The case was reported to the Tuvan government by the owner of the livestock atacked by the predator. Commission inspected the site and confirmed that the livestock according to the character of bites and wounds could have been killed by a wild cat. The shepherd is preoccupied by the loss and asks for the compensation.