Tuva.Asia / The New Research of Tuva

Irina Lachugina: on 11 August of this year, the Supreme khural of Republic Tuva adopted a new national anthem of the republic. Its name is "I am a Tuvan".  The translation is: "I am a Tuvan, Son of eternally white mountaintops, I am a Tuvan,, Daughter of the land of silver rivers." And on Monday, the mayor of Kyzyl refused to hold a meeting of protest against this anthem. Tuvan intellectuals believe that the anthem not only has nationalistic hues, but that it was adopted illegally as well. On top of that, it is an ordinary song of Tuvans of Mongolia, was not composed on Tuvan territory, and as such it does not qualify as an official anthem of the republic,  in the opinion of the organizers of the meeting. We continue our series of discussions "Ethnic map of Russia". Today the topic is Tuvans. The participants in the discussion are head of  Caucasus department of RAN institute of ethnology, professor Sergei Arutyunov and Doctor of historical sciences, chief scientific worker of Tuvan Institute of Humanitarian Research, Marina Mongush.

 Menge is a birth mark, a special sign that every person has. It has a certain degree of influence on a person's health, spirit, body, mind and character. The astrological Menge is not a birth mark on a person's body, on the face, etc. it is an abstract concept that received its name from the periodic repetition of time through nine days, nine months and nine years. There are nine Menge, and each of them is associated with a color: one-white, two-black, three-blue, four-green, five-yellow, six-white, seven-red, and nine-red.