The Russian premier visited Mongolia as part of a risky trip as the ... Last year state media reported Russia’s chief shaman, ...

Mongolian shamanism includes religious beliefs and practises of shamans who enter trances to communicate with deities and spiritual beings who then possess the shaman's body. Shamans wear costumes and ...

Mongolia and Tuva are considered home to the ... known as Russia's "supreme shaman", had asked "the sun, the moon and the stars" to protect the Kremlin's troops in Ukraine. Putin has also made ...