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- Guest Post: More to Know about the Proposed Press Freedom Bill – Analysis and Outlook
- Guest Post: Reflections of my visit: Change, Challenges and Resilience
- Russian-Mongolian Friendship and the Rehabilitation of Tsedenbal and Filatova
- Guest Post: What you should know about Mongolia’s proposed Press Freedom bill
- Remonstrance in Red and Black, With Response: The Demonstrations of January 2025
- Road Numbering
- Khurelsukh at UN General Assembly
- Quick Observations On the Eve of Local Elections 2024
- Guest Post: Mongolian Hoops Dreams — Creation of Soft Power Through Basketball
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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
Khurelsukh at UN General Assembly
By Julian Dierkes, Alexander Morrow and Anshika Srivastava In 2021, Pres. U Khurelsukh spoke at the UN General Assembly for the first time as president. He has returned every year since then. Unlike his immediate predecessor, Kh Battulga, he is … Continue reading
Guest Post: Mongolian Hoops Dreams — Creation of Soft Power Through Basketball
By Benjamin Nuland Basketball was introduced to Mongolia in the 1960s by the Russians and Chinese. More recently, basketball has become Mongolia’s most popular sport, but Mongolians’ associations are primarily American. This fascination lives under the halo of the NBA … Continue reading
Posted in Benjamin Nuland, Curios, Pop Culture, Sports, United States
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How Unfortunate: Putin Visits Mongolia
By Julian Dierkes Once again, geopolitical realities are catching up with Mongolia and there is very little the government of Mongolia can do about it, even if it wanted to. Russian autocrat Vladimir Putin will be visiting Ulaanbaatar to commemorate … Continue reading
Guest Post: Mutton and Mahogany: Mongolia’s 62-year Friendship with Laos Continues
By Benjamin Nuland On June 11th 2024, Mongolia welcomed the Laotian president to Sukhbaatar Square for the first time since 2007. Thongloun Sisoulith’s arrival celebrated a 62-year long friendship between Laos and Mongolia and decades of goodwill. In the 1980s … Continue reading
Guest Post: The Thunder Dragon Arrives on Dragon Year: Mongolia and Bhutan Are Just Getting Started
By Benjamin Nuland If I could give an award for Mongolia’s ‘most underestimated relationship’, it must be that with Bhutan. Mongolia’s relationship with Democratic Bhutan began on January 18, 2012, when UN representatives of both nations mutually signed letters of … Continue reading
Posted in ASEAN, Benjamin Nuland, Food, Foreign Policy, Mongolia and ..., Trade
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Friendship Medal
By Julian Dierkes I was awarded a Friendship Medal by Foreign Minister B Battsetseg at a reception commemorating the 50th anniversary of diplomatic relations between Canada and Mongolia, and also the announcement of an upgrade of the bilateral relationship to … Continue reading
Posted in Canada, Reflection, Research on Mongolia
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Comparative Impressions Kyrgyzstan-Mongolia
By Julian Dierkes Some posts this summer are taking on a bit of a travelogue character, simply because I’ve been travelling. But the Mongolia-Kyrgyzstan comparison has always been of some interest, as Kyrgyzstan is the most likely comparison country for … Continue reading
Guest Post: The Jetsun Dampa in Contemporary Mongolia
This continues a first post that focused on the historical context of the identification of a reincarnation of the Jebtsundamba. By Tsering Shakya The Jetsun Dampa and Post-Soviet Concerns It was not until the collapse of the Soviet Union that … Continue reading
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Guest Post: The Return of the Holy Emperor
By Tsering Shakya On 8th March, the Dalai Lama gave the Chakrasamvara Empowerment, a tantric rite of initiation, in Dharamsala, in northern India; the ceremony is said to have been requested by Gandan Monastery in Ulaanbaatar. At the ceremony, slightly … Continue reading
Posted in Buddhism, China, Dalai Lama, Religion, Tibet, Tsering Shakya
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