We are happy to present you the fourth and the last issue of The New Research of Tuva this year. The winter release contains articles of our permanent and very recent authors. In fact, there are 14 new authors in the current release!

The issue includes a full interview with a Doctor of Historical Sciences Vladimir Datsyshen, Orientalist articles (about Mongolia and Mongolology; about the current state of science in Bashkortostan);

itineraries about Tuvans of China written by a Doctor of Historical Sciences Marina Mongush who had visited  those places, where she gathered ethnographic materials 20 years ago;

an article of German anthropologist Annette Olschlegel presenting a genre of Tuvan legends;

a feedback on Sergey Brilyov’s book and on his impressions about Tuva and many other materials.

The magazine with the volume of 9.4 pp is printed a bit earlier than the planned date of December 1 as some of the authors needed make grant reports including reports to the Russian Foundation for Humanities which changed the reports due dates in its interactive system. A more detailed release description is available in the editorial article. The issue will appear in the database of the Russian Science Citation Index in approximately one-month time. We are looking forward to receiving your new articles for the issue №1/2013 that will come out on March 1 2013.