KAZNEWS – In 2019, Mongolia’s trade with China reached USD 8.9 billion which accounts for the 64.4 percent of the total foreign trade turnover and 89.1 percent of the total export.

Coal export made up 44.4 percent of the total exports to China, while 26.4 percent was copper concentrate. Gold exports accounted for 77.5 percent of goods exported to the United Kingdom, 76.7 percent of export to Singapore and 98.9 percent of the goods exported to Switzerland.

My Life at Al-Farabi KAZNU

Divakar Singh Gurjar, India

A.K.Akhmedova, Department of Language and

general education of foreigners, Faculty of Pre-university Education

It’s indeed a great pleasure writing about my time and experience while at Al-Farabi Kazakh National University previously be called as Kazakh State University – located in the City of Almaty in Republic of Kazakhstan – in short also called as KAZNU, and from hereon I will refer the same as KAZNU.

My name is Diwakar. I live in the City of Jaipur in Republic of India. I attended and successfully completed 6-months’ Intensive Course (Jan.’19-June’19) in Russian Language at the Faculty of Pre-University Education in KAZNU. This period of time is one of the most memorable experiences of my life. Before coming to Kazakhstan for attending the course as stated above at KAZNU, I had heard in detail about KAZNU University and the city of Almaty from two persons who were known to my father. They had attended some other Medical University in Almaty and so they were quite familiar with the place and the Educational Institutions there, this perception was quite natural. After this, I searched for myself throughout the internet and found that KAZNU is one of the Best Universities in Kazakhstan having a Good Rank among the ”Rankings of the Best Universities in World”. The second factor, why I chose KAZNU university in Kazakhstan for studying Russian Language and not some other university e.g. in Russia, is that during my College Graduation, I had studied about Geography of Asia and so I got some knowledge about the Geography of Kazakhstan. And, thus it was then I got convinced that Kazakhstan is a very beautiful country with a comparatively smaller population while the City of Almaty is the most beautiful and modern city of Kazakhstan. Also the fact that Indian Culture and Kazakh Culture has a lot of similarity in contrast to Western Culture. Thus, having all these factors in my mind, I decided to take admission in KAZNU.

Bayan-Ulgii /MONTSAME/ Governor’s Offices of Bayan-Ulgii aimag and Altai soum, Tourism Federation in the aimag in collaboration with Grand Altai Travel are to organize an event ‘Winter Festival of Altai Nomads’ on February 16-17 in a place named Buhun Uul in Ulgii soum.

The event aims to boost winter tourism and to promote tradition and culture of Kazakh nation. During the festival, various activities including Eagle festival, ceremonial parade that shows nomads’ culture, traditional game of Kazakh people such as kokpar- goatskin tug of war on horseback and tenge alu- grab the money as well as ambler horse and camel racing and wrestling tournament will be held.

Ulaanbaatar /MONTSAME/ A Mongolian team is competing successfully at the 15th annual International Zhautykov Olympiad in Mathematics, Physics and Computer Science, being held in Almaty, Kazakhstan on January 9-15.

The team of 28 students and 8 teachers of School No.1 of Ulaanbaatar, Erkhet Erdem School and Bayankhongor aimag’s Algorith School has so far collected a total of ten medals. Specifically, they grabbed one silver medal in teachers’ contest; three gold, one silver and three bronze in mathematics; one silver in physics; and one bronze in computer science.

Some 18 countries including Russia and the US are taking part in the Olympiad.