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https://marissajsmith.wordpress.com/ Contributor, Mongolia Focus (https://bsky.app/profile/mongoliafocus.bsky.social, https://mongoliafocus.com/about-mongolia-focus/about-marissa-smith/)
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On renewed political turmoil, @marissajsmith.bsky.social and Bolor conclude, "popular protests against corruption, sparking resignations of officials & ousting of govts. Root cause of political chaos & social distress is prolonged corruption & judicial complacency."
thediplomat.com/2025/10/mong...
Mongolia’s Political Wrangling Sparks a Constitutional Crisis
The speaker resigned, while the president vetoed an attempt to vote out the prime minister. What’s going on?
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Flashback to 🇲🇳 ten years ago.
@marissajsmith.bsky.social wrote abt movies, specifically Wolf Totem
"being perceived as quaint and naive 'grasslanders,' let alone marauding hordes, compromises #Mongolia ability to pursue int'l relationships"
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Guest Post: Mongols on the International Film Stage | Mongolia Focus
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With Spring session of #Mongolia parliament under way, recall that @marissajsmith.bsky.social , Bulgan B and I have provided bios of cabinet members following formation of coalition government last summer.
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#MGLpoli
More on Oyun-Erdene’s Cabinet | Mongolia Focus
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I am very concerned.

Journalists raided, arrested and subjected to overnight interrogation "stated to the media that this was an unexpected detention and they were informed that they were being questioned for illegally acquiring personal information, and breaking national unity."
Some concerns coming out of #Mongolia abt Tuesday detention of journalists associated w/ online outlet noorog.mn
Mest Mongolia's Dulamkhorloo and Unumunkh explain.
mongoliafocus.com/2025/03/gues...
Guest Post: Noorog.mn, Youth Media Staff Detained for Unclear Charges | Mongolia Focus
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Dashchoilin Monastery, Ulaanbaatar. On the morning of Tsagaan sar, the prayer desks were moved from one of the ger-shaped temples to the new Maidar (Maitreya) enclosure for the great blessing gatherings of the new year. This is their first Tsagaan sar beneath this huge statue of the future Buddha.
From Inside Mongolia:

"Authorities (in #Mongolia) launch a full-scale crackdown on online betting [...] They petition #Meta (META) to remove over 100 gambling-related accounts and push to block betting apps from the #Apple App Store and other platforms."

insidemongolia.beehiiv.com/p/mongolia-t...
Please enjoy the recording of our great conference on Cyrillic and other Eurasian scripts, from the 1920s to the 2020s, presented by Franck Billé and the Tang Center for Silk Road Studies at UC Berkeley last month!

Day 1: www.youtube.com/watch?v=oy5e...

Day 2: www.youtube.com/watch?v=dxTs...
New post for @mongoliafocus.bsky.social on recent trends in the rehabilitation and memorialization of Tsedenbal (head of #Mongolia, 1952-1984) and his Russian wife Filatova.

In recent months, Russian state actors in Mongolia have actively participated.

mongoliafocus.com/2025/03/tsed...
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In case you needed another reminder that Russia is a racist, xenophobic, assimilationist, colonial empire.
Andreessen and Horowitz reduce Chinggisid Mongol warfare to "the invention of the stirrup" (and contemporary warfare to drones):

youtu.be/g4jWb-0nj44?... (link to timestamp approx. 54:30)
Trump is About to Change Everything For Tech Startups
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What we know about June Parliamentary elections in
#Mongolia now on
@mongoliafocus.bsky.social .

Significantly more seats, a mixed proportional-majoritarian system, and large regional constituencies...

blogs.ubc.ca/mongolia/202...

(w/ @schaumkroenchen.bsky.social and Enkhtsetseg Dagva)
Thank you Viktoria Braeuner and @tagesspiegel.de for the invitation to comment on the occasion of President Steinmeier of #Germany's visit to #Mongolia!

www.tagesspiegel.de/internationa...