A shaman performs a midnight pagan rite during the ethno-cultural festival Khoomei at the Kundustug springs near the city of Kyzyl, in the Tuva region near the Mongolian border, some 804 km (500 miles) south of Krasnoyarsk, July 27, 2008. Tuvans were originally nomadic people who today populate some regions of Siberia, Mongolia and China. REUTERS/Ilya Naymushin (RUSSIA)