Voting for the best Siberian people finishes tomorrow, April 16 on www.sib21vek.ru. There are 30 nominees out of which you are to select the two left days 7, no more and no less. Many of the petenders are actually Siberians

After showing this spectacular exhibition with 6,000 artifacts from burial mounds of the by-gone Scythian cultures from Tuva, Mongolia, Altaj, Kasachstan, the southern Ural region, Ukraine, Hungary and Poland in the Martin-Gropius-Bau in Berlin, with several Tuvan representatives of politics

Voting for the best Siberian people starts today, April 8 on www.sib21vek.ru and will last till April 8. There are 30 nominees out of which you are to select every day 7, no more and no less. Many of the

The international symposium "Khoomei: Cultural Phenomenon of the Peoples of Central Asia" will take place in Tuva July 25-27, reported "Tuva-Online" in the Ministry of Culture of the republic. This is one of the biggest events of the Year of

In Russia yesterday, for the first time, Culture Worker Day was observed. President Vladimir Putin signed a edict aboutthis August 28, 2007. In Tuva, today in the House of Folk Art were honored culture workers. Vice-Premier Anatolii Damba-Huurak congratulated workers

The republican government asks the municipalities to prevent the cornering. President of Tuva Sholban-Kara-ool in his speech at the extended meeting of the public and representatives of the republican authorities said that the news on the federal government's decision to

Big business came to Tuva: how does big money mix with unique nature? The combination of the words "industrial Todzha", will very likely grate on the ears of the citizens of the Republic for a long time, because we grew

The release of the historical film " By the order of Chingis Khan", based on the novel by Yakut writer Nikolai Luginov, is scheduled for September 2008, immediately after the 2008 Olympics in Peking. Other possible dates were considered; April

This year, participants in the live music "Ustuu-Khuree" Festival, one of the most popular musical forums in Siberia, in addition to participating in the musical program, will be able to contribute to the work on the restoration of the temple

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

Tapping out a lively beat, the Tuvan drummer set the pace. A classical string quartet joined in. Igils, traditional Tuvan instruments, rounded out the string section. As the Tuvan musicians began to sing, each producing multiple tones, a rich, full