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2 March 2008 | Views: 5333 | Comments: 0 |
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 Tuva voted for a new president on Sunday in an election likely to hand victory to President Vladimir Putin's chosen successor but criticised by the opposition for a lack of real competition. Turnout at presidential polls hit 59% as of 2 p.m. Tuvan time, and exceeded 70% by the end of the vote. Only 9 out of 182 election polls protocols have been processed by the time and they show most voters want to reward Putin for eight years of rapid growth and rising wages by backing Medvedev.
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28 Fabruary 2008 | Views: 3747 | Comments: 0 |
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 If you like the sound of flute, it’s like flute but with your body,” says Sayan Bapa, a member of the Tuvan folk ensemble Huun-Huur-Tu, when Feedback asks him how he would describe Tuvan overtone singing for someone who has never heard it. We think that’s an apt description for the style, which involves creating multiple notes at once by manipulating the mouth, throat and vocal chords. You can’t really grasp what it really sounds like without hearing it for yourself, though. We remember our first experience: a rumbling, guttural Hhhhhhhmmmmmmmeeerrrrrrrrrraaaaaaaahhhhh emanated from our roommate’s bedroom, where he was teaching himself the vocal technique, also called throat singing, from resources on the Internet.
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John Ruscher, c-ville.com |
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24 Fabruary 2008 | Views: 3566 | Comments: 0 |
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Tes-Khem district of Tuva which borders Mongolia adopted a complex socio-economic development plant for the period till 2015. It makes a stress on the external economic links of the district, cattle-breeding, solution of the energy lack problems. Two electric power stations could be built within the next 10 years in Tes-Khem. The first station will be a small hydroelectric power stations on the Tes River. The second station, wind-power, could be built in the settlement of Shuurmak.
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20 Fabruary 2008 | Views: 3480 | Comments: 0 |
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A tragedy happened in the hostel of Tomsk University. A second-year-student, 18, was found hanged in the hostel on Saturday night, the city interior department reported. The young citizen of Tuva was known to have entered a Tomsk university. He had a girlfriend in Tomsk and was doing well in the university. His roommates described him as a sociable and friendly person who got on well with people. His friends referred to him as a person who was not capable of committing a suicide.
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17 Fabruary 2008 | Views: 6657 | Comments: 0 |
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 In Tuva a gala-concert in the Muzdramteatr (Music-Drama Theater) officially opened February 13 the Year of Khoomei. Khoomei is a unique vocal phenomenon, whereby in the performer's throat sounds of different pitches are created simultaneously. In effect, the person becomes like an orchestra. Today khoomei became the worldwide calling card of Tuva. In the summer of 2007 the art of Tuvan throat singing enraptured Vladimir Putin and his guest Albert II, Prince of Monaco.
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Dina Oyun, translated by Ben Stevens |
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12 Fabruary 2008 | Views: 4626 | Comments: 0 |
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First Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev, completing the working tour of Siberia, will spend this Thursday in Novosibirsk. He will participate in the Siberian Forum of Mothers here and will call a meeting on the demographic policy. The number of Russian population totalled 142 million people as of December 1, 2007 and decreased by 220,000 people (0.16 percent) as against the start of the year. This is less than in the corresponding period in 2006 when the number of Russians dropped by 520,000 people (0.37 percent).
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2 Fabruary 2008 | Views: 4203 | Comments: 0 |
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Otherworldly is an apt word to describe Tuvan throat-singing. On Tuesday at the Rotunda, as the three members of Tuva's Alash gave deep voice to the first of a dozen numbers, listeners having their first live encounter with the Central Asian folk genre could be identified by their startled looks. Developed over centuries among the semi-nomadic herdsmen of Tuva, where they could sing to each other over long distances, the eerie vocalizations have long been a national passion in the land bordering southern Siberia.
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By David R. Stampone,The Inquirer |
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31 January 2008 | Views: 3558 | Comments: 0 |
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The group "Khorum-Dag" of Aldyn-Kherel Aldynay’s production house "Toolay", under the aegis of the Year of Khoomei, began its first theatrical tour, with direct support of the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Tuva.
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Oyumaa Dongak, Ben Stevens |
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30 January 2008 | Views: 3521 | Comments: 0 |
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Protracted severe frosts with temperatures sinking to minus 40 degrees Celsius have been keeping general schools shut for the past few days in some parts of southern Siberia.
The weather has granted an extra vacation to more than a half of 57,300 school students in the region of Tuva.
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26 January 2008 | Views: 7911 | Comments: 1 |
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Ask any Tuvan today, what the mysterious expression “Huun-Huurtu” means, and he’ll answer “sun propeller” or “sun”. But 15 years ago, when the ethno-group of this name was being born, such a concept was not known in Tuva at all. Not in normal, vernacular language. The musicians themselves explain it this way: Huun-Huurtu is a natural effect that appears when the sun is shining through trees or clouds. Huun-Huurtu is “prosvet”. (Transl. note: can be translated as enlightenment, culture, education, or simply light shining through. HJ.) And that is very symbolic.
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Andrei Chymba, translated by Heda Jindrak |
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