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Category Archives: Society and Culture
Guest Post: Noorog.mn, Youth Media Staff Detained for Unclear Charges
By Dulamkhorloo Baatar and Unumunkh Jargalsaikhan You may remember me from my previous two-part blog post about the proposed Press Freedom bill (Draft Bill | Analysis and Outlook). This time, I am addressing you with a yet gloomier picture on … Continue reading
Guest Post: Reflections of my visit: Change, Challenges and Resilience
By Bolormaa Purevjav This is a part of our series on “Change in the countryside.” After living in Vancouver, Canada, for six years while completing my PhD, I returned to Mongolia in the summer of 2024. This visit was an … 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
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Guest Post: Mongolian Participation in the Paris 2024 Olympic Games
By Zorig Bat-Erdene Mongolia completed its participation in the Paris 2024 Olympic Games from July 26 to August 11, 2024. A total of 32 athletes competed in 9 different sports: Sport Number of athletes Men Women Athletics 1 2 … Continue reading
Guest Post: Mongolian Visuals – Capturing the City in Rapid Changes
By Mend-Amar Baigalmaa In December 2019, when the decision to demolish the Natural History Museum was announced, many residents of the city fought with the slogan #SaveTheMuseum, and professionals led by G. Ochbayar—researcher of the Ulaanbaatar City Museum appealed to … Continue reading
Guest post: Mongolia’s Success in Team Sports
By Zorigtkhuu Bat-Erdene On April 1, 2023, the Mongolian male basketball team repeated their historic success by winning the 3×3 Asian Cup, defeating the Australian team twice, the first time being in 2017. This remarkable achievement has sparked widespread celebration … Continue reading
Oyun-Erdene Cabinet, Version 01/2023
By Marissa J. Smith A cabinet reshuffle has opened the new year of 2023, in the wake of a December marked by large demonstrations that climaxed with an attempted storming of the Government Building. A major focus of these demonstrations … Continue reading
State-Socialist Legacies and Selective Perception of Propaganda
By Julian Dierkes Every so often, my conversations, especially on visits to Mongolia which are so valuable for my thinking, touch on bigger issues that are challenging to frame as a blog post. This is one of those attempts to … Continue reading
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Untold 23: Promoting Inclusiveness Through Sports
By Odmaa Sod-Erdene Ms. Altantsetseg.B is the Executive Director of Special Olympics Mongolia. Having spent most of her career as a geologist/geochemist at the Mongolian Academy of Sciences and several other mining companies, Ms. Altantsetseg believes it was fate that … Continue reading
Guest Post: Naadam 2022 – International Participants and Backroom Deals
By Zorigtkhuu Bat-Erdene What is Naadam? “Naadam” is a traditional festival that is the most widely celebrated and watched in Mongolia and elsewhere among Mongolians, Inner Mongolians and Tuva Republic. The Naadam festival is celebrated during midsummer and officially takes … Continue reading
Untold Blogpost 15: Dreaming About Safe Roads to My Work
By Mendee Jargalsaikhan Bat-Erdene or Babu, as his friends call him, is a masseur, marathon runner, musician, and khoomii singer. After losing his eyesight at the age of 16, Bat-Erdene lost his hope and hid away from society for 4-5 … Continue reading
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Guest Post: Mongolian Olympic Team in Tokyo 2020
By Zorigtkhuu Bat-Erdene A Mongolian National Olympic Team of 43 athletes participated in the 2020 Summer Olympic Game in Tokyo, Japan in ten different sports. Mongolian athletes have been participating in every Summer Olympic Games since 1964 in Tokyo, except … Continue reading
Young Voter Turnout
By Julian Dierkes There has been some debate around the low turnout rate in Mongolian election. The overall turnout was under 60% and thus much lower than the first round in 2017 and a continuation of the long-term trend of … Continue reading
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Untold Blogpost Episode 7: Create Your Own Future
By Mendee Jargalsaikhan Our guest Sambuudanzan Ganzorig lives in Arkhangai Aimag, approximately 430 kilometers away from the capital city, Ulaanbaatar. He is the President of the Federation of Associations of People with Disabilities in Arkhangai Aimag. Sambuudanzan is also a … Continue reading
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Panel: New Film “Echoes of Empire”
On October 23, 2020, we came together for a panel discussion of Robert Lieberman’s new film, “Echoes of Empire“. Participants in the panel discussion: Robert Lieberman, filmmaker Morris Rossabi, History, Graduate Center, CUNY Orhon Myadar, School of Geography, Development and … Continue reading
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