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100th anniversary of the first world lady-president

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Khertek Amyrbitovna Anchimaa-Toka (1 January 1912 – 4 November 2008) was a Tuvan/Soviet politician who in 1940-1944 was a chairman of Little Khural (parliament) of Tuvan People's Republic, and the first elected or appointed (i.e., not hereditary) female head of state in the modern worldKhertek Anchimaa was born in what is now Bay-Tayginsky kozhuun of Tuva in a poor peasant family. She lost her father and elder brother due to smallpox when a child. Despite her mother being illiterate, Khertek managed to learn to write and read in Mongolian language, and in 1930, when the first national Tuvan alphabet was introduced, she was one of the first to learn it.

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1) TODAY: Motherland defenders' Day

2) 25.02.2012: new! Tyva Kyzy (Daughters of Tuva) group concert, devoted to Shagaa, Buddist New Year (Vermel Club, Moscow)

3) 26.02.2012: new! Reindeer Land Todzha Festival with Reindeer races, (Toora-Khrm, Todzha, Tuva)

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)

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