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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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a.m. local time (4 a.m. Moscow). Over 150,000 voters are expected to turn up at election polls. Parliamentary elections in Tuva are accompanied by scandal. Yesterday 90 observers from the Moscow Life party came to Abakan by air as the Tuvan airport services refused to receive the plane.
With a week left before the election date, October 8, black PR methods are more actively engaged to make people vote for the needed candidates. Life party candidates, main United Russia rivals, have been named 'Shoigu's traitors' in leaflets glued onto all the public places in Kyzyl.
Today the Supreme Court of Russia annulled a Tuvan Court decision taken September 5, cancelling election registration of the Life party candidates list. Among those who found the Tuvan Court decision illegal were Prosecutor General Office, Central Election Commission of Russia, Election Commission of Tuva, Tuvan Department of Life party. The only one backing it was United Russia in Tuva.
One of the most scandalous Russian politicians, Liberal Democrats leader Vladimir Zhirinovski made a three-hour-long visit to Tuva on Sunday, September 24.