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This rare film from the Russian republic of Kalmykia paints a chilly portrait of emotional and social tensions on the edge of the Caspian Sea ... Gulls is the first film to be shot in the remote republic of Kalmykia for 25 years....
The Hollywood Reporter 2015-02-17Manzheeva sets the minimalistic action in her homeland, Kalmykia, a Russian republic where Buddhism is the primary religion and most of the population is of Asiatic descent ... ». - Alissa Simon. ....
IMDb 2015-02-15An attractively lensed but fairly bloodless portrait of hard-up existence with few options, Ella Manzheeva’s feature debut The Gulls (Chaiki) is set against the snowy, sparse expanses of the Republic of Kalmykia in Russia’s Volga region ... Evgeniya Mandzhieva, a successful fashion model from Kalmykia in her debut performance appears somewhat miscast and out of her depth as Elza....
Screen Daily 2015-02-08(Source. Berlin International Film Festival). The 45th Berlinale Forum will show a total of 43 films in its main programme, of which 31 are world premieres and 10 international premieres ... New York, Moscow, St ... It won't be an easy ride. Ella Manzheeva's Chaiki (The Gulls) is set in a small town in the Republic of Kalmykia on the shores of the Caspian Sea, telling the story of a young woman incapable of escaping her own tiny little world ... H....
noodls 2015-01-15ReutersThe leader of the secessionist Caucasus Emirate, Doku Umarov (center), appears in an undated still image taken from a video ... The renegade commanders in question are. ... Aselderov was born in Kalmykia and in Daghestan after being tried and acquitted in 2007 on a charge of illegal possession of weapons. • Abu-Mukhammad Agachaulsky (Arslan-Ali Kambulatov), commander of one of the militant groups operating in and around Makhachkala ... ... ....
Business Insider 2015-01-02Tatarstan wasn't always so peaceful ... Today, citizens across Russia, from the Muslim republics of the Northern Caucuses to Buddhist Republics like Tuva, Kalmykia and Buryatia are wondering if the new Russian World idea, so central to Putin's claim on Crimea and to backing eastern Ukrainian Russian speakers, would mean a rise of Russian nationalism ... "Russkiy Mir at the moment means nothing ... Now, it belongs to history." ... ....
The Daily Beast 2014-12-25In the MIA for the Republic of Kalmykia there was held a ceremony of issuing to pensioners of the Internal Affairs bodies 11 State Housing Certificates totaling more than 32 million rubles ... housing certificates, republic of kalmykia....
noodls 2014-12-12(Source. The Office of His Holiness the Dalai Lama). His Holiness went on to talk about the ethnic Mongolians who belong to the Russian Federation, the people from Tuva, Buryatia and Kalmykia. They all use Tibetan in their religious studies. Among them have been some great scholars and His Holiness mentioned reading many great texts by Mongolians ... Don't think of this book of the 'Great Stages of the Path' just as an object of reverence....
noodls 2014-12-05(Source. Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation) MFA of Russia ... In September, the Days of Tatarstan in Kazakhstan were successfully held; the delegation of Mari El visited Belarus; Kalmykia presented its stand at the International Caspian Business Forum.The cooperation of youth organisations from the Russian regions broke new ground with the assistance provided by the Gorchakov Foundation for Public Diplomacy ... Thank you....
noodls 2014-11-29(Source. Princeton University) Dalai Lama to visit Princeton Oct. 28; get details. Posted October 27, 2014; 12.00 p.m. by the Office of Communications. His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama is participating in two events at Princeton University on Tuesday, Oct. 28 ... 28 ... Dr ... The Kalmyk community's ancestors, who came from the Kalmykia Republic of Russia, helped bring Tibetan Buddhism to the United States when they arrived in 1951 ... distributed by....
noodls 2014-10-27The Russian side’s coach is often mocked but his achievements show that he is far more than merely a figure of fun. Leonid Slutsky and Manuel Pellegrini also crossed swords twice in last season's Champions League. Photograph. Peter Powell/EPA ... After three years at Olympia a short stint at Uralan Elista, a former top-tier club that collapsed when Kirsan Ilyumzhinov, the Kalmykia Republic governor, lost interest, ended in 2004 ... ....
The Guardian 2014-10-19Media and experts dismiss concerns that China's large-scale military exercise with Russia and other Central Asian nations "is targeted at any third party" ... Moscow's Tibet stance ... The Dalai Lama's last trip to Russia was in 2004 when he paid a religious visit to the Republic of Kalmykia, where half of the population reportedly follows Tibetan Buddhism. Tibet is governed as an autonomous region of China ... ....
BBC News 2014-08-29(Source. Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation). Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov's speech and answers to questions during International Youth Forum Seliger on 27 August 2014. 1988-27-08-2014. Good afternoon,. First, I'd like to thank forum organisers for inviting me here ... Take colour revolutions ... Here is how it happened ... We discussed this issue more than once with the leadership of Kalmykia and other Buddhist republics ... (noodl....
noodls 2014-08-28The Republic of Kalmykia (Russian: Респу́блика Калмы́кия, tr. Respublika Kalmykiya; IPA: [rʲɪsˈpublʲɪkə kɐlˈmɨkʲɪjə]; Kalmyk: Хальмг Таңһч, Hal'mg Tanghch) is a federal subject of Russia (a republic). Population: 289,481 (2010 Census).
It is the only Buddhist region in Europe. It has also become well known as an international chess mecca because its former President, Kirsan Ilyumzhinov, is the head of the International Chess Federation (FIDE).
Kalmykia is traversed by the northeasterly line of equal latitude and longitude.
Major rivers include:
Kalmykia is located on the shores of the Caspian Sea. In general, there are very few lakes on the territory of the republic. The biggest lakes include:
Kalmykia's natural resources include coal, oil, and natural gas.
The republic's wildlife includes the famous saiga antelope, whose habitat is protected in Cherny Zemli Nature Reserve.
Kalmykia has a continental climate, with very hot and dry summers and cold winters with little snow.
The ancestors of the Kalmyks, the Oirats, migrated from the steppes of southern Siberia on the banks of the Irtysh River to the Lower Volga region. Various reasons have been given for the move, but the generally accepted answer is that the Kalmyks sought abundant pastures for their herds. Another motivation may have been to escape the growing dominance of the neighboring Dzungar Mongol tribe. They reached the lower Volga region in or about 1630. That land, however, was not uncontested pastures, but rather the homeland of the Nogai Horde, a confederation of Turkic-speaking nomadic tribes. The Kalmyks expelled the Nogais who fled to the Caucasian plains and to the Crimean Khanate, areas under the control of the Ottoman Empire. Some Nogai groups sought the protection of the Russian garrison at Astrakhan. The remaining nomadic Mongol Oirats tribes became vassals of Kalmyk Khan.