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31 October 2006 | Views: 2968 | Comments: 0 |
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The incidence of syphilis decreased 15% in Tuva over 9 months, 2006. Apart from six districts (kozhuuns), where syphilis incidence increased up to 68.2%, a decrease was registered in the rest of Tuvan area.
Moreover, gonorrhoea incidence lowered 16.4%, and scab – 18.8%.
A case of inborn syphilis was registered by doctors in Kyzyl, the capital of Tuvan Republic, Tuva Online news agency reports.
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26 October 2006 | Views: 3336 | Comments: 0 |
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There are about 305,000 people living in the South Siberian steppes and mountains of the Tuva Republic of Russia, a landlocked region at the heart of Asia. Theirs is an ancient culture and their music-making is among the world's oldest and most unusual.
St. Clair Productions will present Huun-Huur-Tu, one of the best known performing groups of Tuvan throat-singing, on Friday, Oct. 27, at the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Rogue Valley, 87 Fourth St., Ashland.
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24 October 2006 | Views: 2792 | Comments: 0 |
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If you want to ... explore the outer edges of jazz, hear the extraordinary Sainkho Namchylak (Cargo, November 14), the mountain-chanter from Tuva in Siberia. She can sing with operatic purity, plummet into an overtone-laden world like a distant didgeridoo, creak like a chain straining on a winch or flutter like a songbird.
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21 October 2006 | Views: 3175 | Comments: 0 |
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Two parties - United Russia (15 deputies) and Life party (12 deputies) - have to negotiate their strategies in the Legislative Chamber of Great Khural where none of them has an overwelhlming majority. In order to make a decision one has to have at least 17 votes pro (half of the established number of deputies plus one vote).
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18 October 2006 | Views: 3163 | Comments: 0 |
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Abandoning children becomes more often in Kyzyl, the capital of Tuva, State TV and Radio Broadcasting Company "Tyva" reported. Three small abandoned children were found in Kyzyl streets on one day last week.
The first telephone call was received by police in the afternoon on October, 12. A child was found near the orphanage in Suvorova St. by teachers. It emerged that 18-month-old Ulzana Shyyrap had been taken to the children's home by her mother.
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15 October 2006 | Views: 4939 | Comments: 0 |
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 The third 'Kyzyl-Moscow' Festival is to take place in mid-November in the Russian capital, festival directir Georgi Beletski told Tuva-Online. Among Tuvan groups and performers who would take part in it are 'Saradak', Khogzhum', Kheimer-ool Khovalyg, Khakassian singer Yulia Charkova, and an ensemble of authentic music from Irkutsk.
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14 October 2006 | Views: 3342 | Comments: 0 |
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Kyzyl Election Comission decided to recalculate votes in spite of the fact that the three day term to announce official election results in the capital has been already bypassed. Life Party leaders are sure that this decision is made in favour of United Russia which has lost in five out of six one-seat Legislative Chamber constituencies to the Life party candidates.
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13 October 2006 | Views: 3001 | Comments: 0 |
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 'Karmaland', Sainkho's new poetry book, complete with her new CD, these days is presented in Italy. A number of presentation will take place - from Turin to Milan. This is not the first belletristic experience of the famous Tuvan singer currently based in Austria. Her first verses were published in late eighties in the Tuvan 'Ulug-Khem' literature magazine.
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12 October 2006 | Views: 3695 | Comments: 0 |
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Tuva has not yet announced the official results of Sunday voting in contrast to the other eight regions of Russia in which parliamentary election took place, and in which the election results were made public on the next day after voting. This situation was severely criticized by Alexandr Veshnykov, head of the Central Election Commission of Russia at the press-conference following the Sunday elections.
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10 October 2006 | Views: 2994 | Comments: 0 |
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 World-largest Frankfurt Book fair this year saw 7,272 exhibitors from 113 countries display almost 400,000 titles while India as Guest of Honour country promoted its culture and literature.
Among new books presented at the 58th edition of the fair was a Tuvan one published at Alouete Verlag (Hambourg, Germany) - Misterious Tuva. Expeditions into the Heart of Asia' (Geheimnisvolles Tuwa. Expeditionen in das Herz Asiens) by Sevian Vainshtein. It is based on ethnographic notes made by Moscow researcher Sevian Vainshtein in course of his 10-year-long studies in Tuva.
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Posts of October 2006 
