Kirsan ilyumzhinov biography of michael jackson

For all the attention devoted to Kirsan Ilyumzhinov as FIDE President, his role as Head of the Republic of Kalmykia remains more of a mystery. Daria Aslamova’s recent two-part report offered a fascinating glimpse into everyday life in the small steppe republic.

Daria Aslamova is one of Russia’s more colourful journalists. She catapulted to fame after writing a kiss-and-tell memoir on her encounters with the political establishment, but since then has reported from war zones (an English journalist described her “lively dispatches of the Moll-Flanders-goes-to-war variety”) and has recently been writing in-depth reports from the edges of Europe for the most popular Russian daily newspaper, “Komsomolskaya Pravda”.

The original report from Kalmykia can be found here: part one, part two. It’s well worth a look (with an automatic translator) for both the full text and the photographs that accompany the article. All the headings used below are from the Russian text. It begins in rural Kalmykia:     

IN DEFIANCE OF ARISTOTLE

The evening of a hard hot day on the Kalmykian steppe. The village of Orgakin. The table in the

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Moguls at the Gates : Part Robin Hood, Part Robber Baron, Russia’s Wild Capitalists Are Skirting The Law, Making Fortunes And, Maybe, Saving The Country

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