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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 May 2006 
Economic justification on construction of the Kyzyl-Minusinsk (Kuragino) railway required in respect with the development of the Elegest coal field and other parts of the mineral complex has been approved May, 17 at the Expert Council, Russian Ministry of Trasport headed by Mikhail Levitin, minister. It is a large step forward in making an ambitious business plan realizable, in spite of the fact that the project itself has never been approved of or even discussed on the official local level. Tuvan deputies get news in this regards from the federal news agencies. 
Fires are currently raging in Tuva over the total area of 5,000 hectares. 10 fires have been registered in the republic, the two largest ones covering 980 hectars and 960 hectars correspondingly are on in the Kaa-Khem district, the smaller ones - in Chedi-Khol and Ulug-Khem districts. 
A new program for the Third 'Kyzyl-Moscow' Music Festival will be announced on the 13th of June at the Moscow Cultural centre 'Dom'. As Georgi Beletski, festival director, who prefers to be called by Tuvan name Arat, reported to 'Tuva-Online', during the presentation of the 3d 'Kyzyl-Moscow', the dates and the place of the traditionally held in Autumn festival will be specified. 
Vera Bailak, 82, and Kyrgys Chamzyryn, 86, are the only Tuvan war veterans who lived up out of the legendary Tuvan Cavalry Squadron numbering 206.
Tuva-Online seeks funding for its current activities. Any financial help - from $1 to $ 100 - is welcome. Tuva-Online is a not-for-profit organization run by a group of Tuvan journalists. It was set up 5 years ago with the only aim to make information about Tuva and Tuvans open and accessible to anyone.
Anatoli Kvashnin, a long-awaited in Tuva official, respresenting Vladimir Putin in the Siberian region, finished his 3-day-visit to the republic in the centre of Asia. On the last day of his trip he was to meet representatives of the Tuvan intelligentsia which were thouroughly sifted for this meeting by the Tuvan Government. Those, who were not let in, managed to pass over a note to Putin's Ambassador. Kvashnin got furious and ordered to open the doors.