The Mongolic-speaking Kalmyks currently inhabiting the steppes of the Volga region have Central Asian ancestry and are organized into the tribal groups. The genetic relationships among these tribes ...
Russia's Kalmykia region has marked the 80th anniversary of the start of mass deportations of Kalmyks to Siberia by Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin. Kalmykia, a republic located in the North Caucasus, ...
ELISTA, Russia -- Russia's Republic of Kalmykia has marked the 75th anniversary of the start of mass deportations of Kalmyks to Siberia by Soviet dictator Josef Stalin. Prayers in Kalmykia's Buddhist ...
Candice McDonald When my mother, Barbara McDonald, née Roach, was in her last years of high school in Cloudcroft, New Mexico, a group of Kalmyks… ...
The Kalmyks survived Stalin’s deportation to Siberia — later recognized as a crime against humanity. Here are some real faces and their stories. In December 1943 the Kalmyks, an ethnic group living in ...
Each week Olga Shapovalova offers to folk music lovers a multicoloured display of customs and traditions, legends and tales, melodies and rythms of Russia. Our today’s program is devoted to the ...
Pigeons at a Khurul (Buddhist temple) in Elista, capital of the Republic of Kalmykia, southern Russia. CC-by-SA-2.0: Alex Malev / Flickr. Some rights reserved. Every ...
YANDYKI, Russia, Aug. 19 (UPI) -- Fighting broke out between Kalmyks and Chechens in southern Russia's Astrakhan Region. The Novosti news agency reported the conflict began when a Kalmyk was shot and ...