Chairman of the Tuvan Government Sherig-ool Oorzhak was awarded with the Order of the Polar Star, the highest award of Mongolia. Mongolia's Consul General Sumakhuu based in Tuva noted at the meeting with the head of the republic that the Mongolian government highly appreciated the contribution made by Oorzhak to the strengthening and the development of cooperation between their countries, the newslab.ru reported.

The first foster family appears in Kyzyl, the capital of the Republic of Tuva. The Khovalyg family have fostered three children: two boys and a girl from Kyzyl Children's Home, newslab.ru reported.

Mikhail and Marina Khovalyg have been working as teachers for their whole lives. They have already have two grown children.

In Russia, the unemployment shed from 6.8 percent to 6.1 percent during a year, but long-term unemployment widened to 40 percent at the same time, the Russian Statistics Service said in the report released on Friday. Even though the average chances for remaining unemployed are not very grand here, the problem is underestimated in some regions, the report signaled.

Four people died in a car accident 200 km to the south of Kyzyl on the road heading to the Mongolian frontier. Seven people were injured and taken to the hospital, where one of them died, Aleftina Dorzhu, spokesperson for the Emergency and Civil Defence Unit in Tuva reported to Tuva-Online. Tragic statistics of road accidents in Tuva is still on the rise, despite of the efforts undertaken by the Tuvan Government.

Presentation of the state report "On demographics in the Republic of Tyva" took place at the meeting in Tuva's Government, Newslab.ru reports with the reference to the Tuvan governmental press service. The report authors have studied demographics in the republic for 2005 and the general development trends for the last five years.

Nadya Antufieva, daughter of Tuva's famous journalist Nadezhda Antufieva, and currently Moscow State University student, won a third prize and 12000 ruble ($500) at a regional stage of the All-Russian contest "Social media challenge 21st century".

Young reporters from 12 Siberian regions participated in the first regional stage of the contest: the Republic of Buryatia, Irkutsk, Kemerovo, Novosibirsk, Omsk, Tomsk and the Tyumen Regions, the Altai and the Krasnoyarsk Territories, and the Khanty-Mansi and the the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Areas.

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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.

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.

The Republic of Tuva (Tyva) is situated in the central part of the Asian continent bounded by Eastern Siberia on the north, Mongolia on the south and east, Irkutsk Region on the northeast, the Buryat Republic on the east, and the Altai Republic on the west. The republic is far from both the warm Atlantic and Pacific oceans and the Arctic Ocean. Four time zones separate Tuva from Moscow and five separate it from Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky on the east coast.