Last week, seven key leaders of the Movement of the Joint Mongolian Rivers and Lakes (ODMR) and the Movement Gal Undesten ("Fire Nation") were arrested by police and detained. At the same time, mining companies, whose illegal activities in water protection zones of rivers was halted in June ekoaktivistami, resumed their destructive activities immediately after the arrest of leaders [...]

Mongolia. Koumiss

Not far from the camp of the Karakoram is Mr. Chuluna. Chulun - the Mongols 'stone', the name of a rare, native Mongolian. Usually, Mongolians are Tibetan names. We were kindly invited into the tent, waiting for the owner. He himself was not at home. He left the herd on a motorcycle. He says that it's more convenient, although Chulun - an excellent rider and has repeatedly won the competition in the capital [...]

Steppe and sea

To a new location
Before coming to the Mongolian People's Republic in Moscow, I was friends with a young man. He taught me the Mongol language. Often visiting him at home, I noticed that four times a year, he rearranged the furniture in the apartment.
- What is it? - I asked after the next reshuffle.
- Migrations - smiling baqsi-teacher .- migrations, a change of scenery, to [...]

According to the agency "MONTSAME" in 2011, Mongolia will celebrate 2200 anniversary of the founding of the empire of the Huns. National Committee for organizing this historic event, headed by Minister of Education of Mongolia Mr. Otgonbayar.
The celebration of this date, clearly show how nomadic Mongols from the first to create their own state, as it led equitable relations with neighboring cultural civilizations, strengthen the Mongols pride for his country [...]

Hollywood actor Richard Gere attended the international conference "The Buddhist religion in Mongolia." Hollywood star and a practicing Buddhist, read a paper on "The Moral basics of Buddhist religion and leadership in business."
At the first international scientific conference on "The Buddhist religion in Mongolia" in the main Buddhist monastery of the country - Gandantegchinlin in Ulan Bator - was attended by representatives of India [...]

Can you imagine a priest on skates - hockey in full gear! Agree that this is not too familiar. It was such a priest can be found in Ulan Bator. Himself abbot of a single Orthodox church in Mongolia Holy Trinity parish, the priest directs the Mongolian Trumpeter Alex club Bandy.
Father Alex (Trumpeter) arrived in Mongolia in 2005. And the main task [...]

First published collection of common folklore
Presentation of the book was held in the Convent of the Mongols of the world on July 15 at the National Library. The book was the concluding event of the opening of the Cultural and Information Center of Mongolia. Among the guests of honor presentation - Mongolian President Tsakhia Elbegdorj.
For several years the authors of the draft texts were treated with a large reservoir of Mongolian peoples from the Middle Ages and ending with the beginning of XXI [...]

On June 1, open regular flights between Mongolia and Buryatia on the route "Ulan Bator - Ulan-Ude." The new flight will carry the Mongolian airline "Eznis Airways» («Eznis Airways»). At a meeting in the Ministry of Transport Development, Energy and Roads of the Republic of Buryatia leadership of the Mongolian airline noted that the flight will be operated twice a week - on Tuesdays and Saturdays, despite [...]

"Gold Rush" in Mongolia struck on Lake Baikal
29/04/2010

Foreign mining companies are changing the landscape of Mongolia. As a result, development and mining operations at the source of rivers and water protection zones of water bodies vanish there hundreds of rivers and lakes, and Mongolia itself is gradually turning into desert. Mongolian and Russian environmentalists have supported the main tributary of Lake Baikal - a transboundary river Selenga and [...]

This album is pleasant to listen to, rolling down the road of Ulan-Ude, Ulan Bator. Music, in which lies the "Soul of a nomad." A solo album by that name was the next project, "one man band" Battuvshina.
Modern nomads bay horse prefer a powerful car, long degelam - comfortable feather bed. A route is through the urban jungle more than the endless steppes and deserts. However, nomadic spirit in their hearts [...]