27-years-old Kalmykia-born Ella Gedeyeva was killed severely in Moscow on March 23. Two young people attacked her near Rechnoy Voksal metro station in the yard of the house #53-5 on Festivalnaya Street.

Steven Seagal - famous Hollywood actor and Buddhism follower - arrived to the Republic of Kalmykia of the Russian Federation to visit the biggest in Europe Buddhist temple "Golden Abode of Buddha Shakyamuni" and to attend student Europe Boxing Cup in Elista, the capital of Kalmykia.

A planned 150 megawatt (MW) wind farm scheduled to come online in 2010 will be the first ever to service the Autonomous Republic and Russian Federation.

It is a blazing hot day in the desert in the tiny Russian republic of Kalmykia, and a cluster of schoolchildren in red baseball caps and T-shirts huddles in the courtyard of Secondary School No. 3, waving little American flags.

The new plant, which will produce industrial chemicals from natural gas, would depend on natural gas supplies from LUKoil-owned deposits in the north of the Caspian Sea, where up to 10 million metric tons (75 million bbl) of oil and up to 12 billion cubic meters of gas are to be produced annually.