Yearly Archives: 2025

Russian-Mongolian Friendship and the Rehabilitation of Tsedenbal and Filatova

By Marissa J. Smith After leading the Mongolian People’s Republic continuously since 1952, Yu. Tsedenbal was dismissed from his office in 1984 while traveling in Moscow (Atwood 2004, 549). Tsedenbal and his Russian wife, Filatova, never returned to Mongolia. However, … Continue reading

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Guest Post: What you should know about Mongolia’s proposed Press Freedom bill

By Dulamkhorloo Baatar After 27 years, Mongolia takes another stab at passing a new Press Freedom Bill. The bill was submitted to Parliament for discussion in late January 2025 and is expected to be discussed as soon as the Parliamentary … Continue reading

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Remonstrance in Red and Black, With Response: The Demonstrations of January 2025

By Marissa J. Smith So far, winter 2025 has seen two brief demonstrations. Neither approaches the scale of the last major demonstration event, the so-called “coal theft”/нүүрс хуулгайч protests of December 2022 and January 2023, which was followed by a … Continue reading

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