The young Uzbek team winning this year’s Olympiad came as a pleasant surprise, but it is not an isolated example in the recent shift of world chess power. Uzbek boys, Kazakh girls, Azeri youth, Chinese, Indian and Iranian young phenoms ever more frequently lit the chess sky. What do their countries have in common? They all once lined the Silk Road.
Today, August 16, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Mongolia to the Kingdom of Thailand A. Tumur presented a Certificate of Cultural Envoy of Mongolia to S. Khaliun, who has been appointed as a Cultural Envoy of Mongolia to Thailand, and signed a contract of cooperation.
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