Head of Tuva Sholban Kara-ool congratulated today to his 88^th birthday Mongush Kenin-Lopsan - national writer and scholar, known for his works on research of shamanism, for which he was awarded the title of permanent President of Tuvan shamans. The Premier, just like every time on this date, visited the scholar at his tiny residence in the center of Kyzyl - a rare log cabin dating from the beginning of last century, and spent a long time in conversation with the Tuvan elder.

"Each nation is a star on the night sky, which lights the way to knowledge and understanding of life", - this is what Tuvan aksakal (elder) Mongush Borakhovich Kenin-Lopsan says. For him, the star lit up in long-ago year 1947, when he among graduates of Kyzyl School No. 2 went to Leningrad State University.

The Polar star (according to Tuvan mythology "Grandmother-Doe") glowed and glittered, and led M. B. Kenin-Lopsan along the thorny road of a scholar. Candidate, then Doctor of History, he himself lit up quite a few new stars on the sky - his students. His works about the poetry of shamanism are published in many languages of the world, and in the USA he has the title of an academician and a Living treasure of Shamanism.

Vyacheslav Ondar. Titanium prosthesis.

Precisely titanium, for the first time in the world practice, was used to cast a monument in Moscow, dedicated to the first cosmonaut on Earth, Yuri Gagarin.

A joint interregional project "National motifs in the art of Tuva and Khakassia", which is currently being worked on by Khakass and Tuvan national museums, will be the first action in the framework of Agreement about co-operation in the field of museum work, which h was signed during the visit of Khakass delegation to Republic Tyva in early March 2013.

Hamburg Museum of Ethnography is one of the best known in the world and the largest in Germany. Its director, professor Doctor Wulf Koepke conducted research among native tribes in North America, and he also studied the traditions of Mordva (Erzya, Moksha). He is well acquainted with myths and rituals of Tuvan shamans.

Remember that 13 years ago, a delegation from Tuva which included shamans, led by Professor Mongush Kenin-Lopsan went to Hamburg and even conducted a purification ritual of Koepke's home and his collection, and also treated patients.

While in Europe there is a fulminant scandal with horsemeat, which was discovered in many popular meat products, Russian livestock breeders are concerned with a more serious problem. Here everybody is more and more willing to eat horsemeat. The question is: how to supply the population with quality domestic product.

Center for development of traditional Tuvan culture and crafts opened its doors on 2 March of last year. In honor of its first anniversary, director of the Center, Kongar-ool Ondar, gave the first press-conference to representatives of mass communication media of Tuva. The interest in this conference is evidenced by the fat that journalists came to Kyzyl from Pii-Khem, Ovyur, and even from Mongun-Taiga.