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Sainkho Performing in Moscow

20 October 2001 | Views: 2540 | Comments: 0

Sainkho Namchylak (Tuva-Austria), Iva Bitova (Czech Republic) and Shelly Hirsh(USA)is performances have made up the final concert of the music festival "Deep larynx or dangerous vocal cords", which was held on October, 18-21 in Moscow. The Tuvan-Austrian singer presented to the public her new music programme "Vocal and mental equilibristics", which combines recitations on spiritual and everyday subjects with virtuous vocal technique including traditional Tuvan throat-singing in the untraditional female interpretation.

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Dina Oyun

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Anthrax in Tuva!

18 October 2001 | Views: 2246 | Comments: 0

5 cows perished of anthrax in the village of Moren (in the south-east of Tuva). The spokesman for the chief sanitarian body of the republic points out that the infection was not brought into Tuva ftom outside but comes out of the old cattle burial mounds from the 50-ties.

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0	Sayana Mongush

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Chylgychy Ondar is a New Tuvan Deputy in Gosduma

15 October 2001 | Views: 2685 | Comments: 0

Chylgychy Ondar, the vice prime-minister of the republic, has become a new deputy for Tuva in the Federal Parliament. He took the lead in the State Duma elections, held in Tuva on October, 14 winning all in all 38 per cents votes out of those who came to the poll on the election day.His runner-up Sergei Mongush, minister of internal affairs, gathered 36 per cents votes, the other 3 candidates for the deputy fell far behind: Victor Norby, Moscow banker, came with 13,8 %; Alexandr Kashin, mayor of Kyzyl - 4,1%; Vladimir Tavberidze, leader of the Tuvan affiliate of the All-Russian political party "Apple" - 1,2%.

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Dina Oyun

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Direct Flight Moscow-Kyzyl-Moscow Resumed in August

8 October 2001 | Views: 2750 | Comments: 0

The weekly direct flight Moscow-Kyzyl-Moscow, resumed in August, has proved to be the most reliable and quickest way of communication between the two capitals. The AST-Air company who rent the plane, presented to Tuva by Boris Yeltsin in 1995, makes a regular inquiry among flight passengers asking for their recommendations as for the desirable date, time and commodities aboard. The latest poll shows that Sunday is the best time for the flight.

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0	Sayana Mongush

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Proper Tuvan Revenues Make up 3 Per Cents of the Budget

7 October 2001 | Views: 2613 | Comments: 0

The Budget Committee of the Supreme Khural (Parliament) of Tuva has considered and discussed at its session the implementation of the republican budget for the 1st half of this year. The half a year profits of Tuva state at 171,1 billion roubles out of which its own profits make up 53,1 billion. The proper Tuvan income makes 3 % out of the whole budget of the republic (in 2000 - 3,5 %). The rest of the Tuvan budget comes from Moscow.

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60 more Tuvan Students will Come to Moscow

4 October 2001 | Views: 2500 | Comments: 0

60 more students from Tuva came to Moscow this year. Today the 1st year students took a solemn students oath. This is the first time when the Council of Tuvan community in Moscow organizes such a ceremony for the Tuvan newcomers to higher institutions of Moscow.

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0	Alexandr Papyn

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Tuvan Airpark is Renovated

28 September 2001 | Views: 2632 | Comments: 0

The Government of the Republic of Tuva decided to support financially the maintenance work of the airplanes park of the republic which has not been renewed for a long time. Two airplanes "Yak-40" will be repaired in the Minsk aviation plant (Byelorussia) and two airplanes "An-2" will undergo a small reconstruction in Omsk (Siberia) in order to adapt them for another type of the fuel.

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New Solo Programme by Famous Tuvan opera-singer Nadezhda Krasnaya

19 September 2001 | Views: 2818 | Comments: 0

Moscow philarmonics has opened its new concert season with the solo programme by famous Tuvan opera-singer Nadezhda Krasnaya. She presented to the public her own interpretation of romances by Edward Grig's "Roses" and "Swan" and Sergei Rakhmaninov's "Do not sing in my presence, Beauty" and "Spring waters". Right after the concert was over Nadezhda Krasnaya had to go to the airport to take a plane to Kyzyl. Her mother has got very seriously ill.

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Dina Oyun

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Tuvan Awards are on Exhibit in Moscow

17 September 2001 | Views: 2518 | Comments: 0

The National Historical Museum on the Red Square has put forward a new project "Awards of the XXth century". The museum already disposes of next to the full collection of Tuva's awards (1926-1943) and the lists of the awarded. To make it even fuller the Museum has applied to the Tuvan Government for missing signs "The merited cattle-breeder" and "The merited State security officer" of the TNR"s period and also to provide the Museum with a set of the contemporary awards of Tuva. Contact number: 7-095-1621921

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Dina Oyun

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Sevian Vainstein is Given an Award from Putin

16 September 2001 | Views: 2555 | Comments: 0

2001 is a remarkable year in the biography of famous ethnographer Sevian Vainstein, who has devoted the better part of his life to Tuva. In April this year by the Decree of President Putin he was awarded with the title of the "Merited Scientist of the Russian Federation". Sevian Vainstein is now finishing the work at the book "Tuva, full of secrets and mysteries: 50 years of expeditions and work", which is going to be released by the Publishing House "Anloutte Verlag" (Jurgen Boden) in Germany. Afterwards it will be translated into English and French.

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