Original sentence: A century later, growing disillusioned with increasing Russian interference, the Kalmyks decided to return to Jungaria in Xinjiang province in China) - a small number survived the hazardous journey home and are now called Oirats, while some others did not manage to cross the Volga to join the return to Asia.Area: approximately 76,100 km².Following a particularly bloody offensive by the Chinese emperor, who suspected that they might ally themselves with the Russians against him, they reached as far as the desert steppes of southeast Europe in the 17th century, and settled around their capital in Astrakhan on the Volga delta.Kalmykia is a small, semi-autonomous republic within Russia, located near the Caspian Sea.Kalmykia is currently ruled by Kirsan Ilyumzhinov who is widely regarded as heading a corrupt regime that has proved itself incapable of developing the country.Population: 318,000.The nomadic Mongol Kalmyk people originated in Central Asia as borderland nomads in Chinese Turkestan, the homeland they call Jungaria.With the collapse of the soviet regime the economy also disintegrated, causing widespread social hardship and increasing depopulation of rural areas lacking in resources and facilities
Edited sentence: ; population, 318,000) within Russia, located near the Caspian Sea.A century later, growing disillusioned with increasing Russian interference, the Kalmyks decided to return to Jungaria in Xinjiang province in China) - a small number survived the hazardous journey home and are now called Oirats, while some others didn't manage to cross the Volga to join the return to Asia.Following a particularly bloody offensive by the Cbinese emperor, who suspected that they might ally themselves with the Russians against him, they reached as far as the desert steppes of southeast Europe in the 17th century, and settled around their capital in Astrakhan on the Volga delta.It is currently ruled by Kirsan Ilyumzhinov who is widely regarded as heading a corrupt regime that has proved itself incapable of developing the country.Kalmykia is a small, semi-autonomous republic (area: approximately 76,100 sq.The nomadic Mongol Kalmyk people originated in central Asia as borderland nomads in Chinese Turkestan, the homeland they call Jungaria.With the collapse of the undemocratic totalitarian soviet regime the economy also disintegrated, causing widespread social hardship and increasing depopulation of rural areas lacking in resources and facilities