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  Mongolia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Mongolia (Khalkh Mongol: Монгол Улс) is a landlocked nation in central Asia, bordered by Russia to the north and the People's Republic of China to the south.
The 18th largest country in the world by area, Mongolia has very little arable land: much of its area is grassland, with mountains in the north and west and the Gobi Desert in the south.
Mongolia is split in to 21 provinces (aimag), Ulaanbaatar (the capital) is a municipality with provincial status.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mongolia   (956 words)

  
 Mongolia Travel Guide - General Information
The name ''Mongolia'' has always stirred up visions of the untamed and exotic Genghis Khan, camels wandering in the Gobi Desert and wild horses galloping across the steppes.
The Ulaanbaatar Hotel, founded 45 years ago, was the first four-star hotel in Mongolia and will now battle for the title of first downtown business hotel to earn five stars.
Three of 17 commercial banks in Mongolia have not fulfilled the new requirement of the Mongol Bank to hold Tg8 billion in nominal reserve by April 1.
www.ub-mongolia.mn   (500 words)

  
 Mongolia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
Mongolia (Khalkha Mongolian: Монгол Улс) is a landlocked country in Asia, bordered by Russia to the north and the People's Republic of China to the south.
In the 13th century, Mongolia was part of the Mongol Empire.
Mongolia's economy is centered on oil, coal, and copper, with smaller industries in molybdenum, tungsten, and phosphate mining.
www.1-free-software.com /en/wikipedia/m/mo/mongolia.html   (501 words)

  
 Mongolia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
Mongolia (Khalkha Mongolian: Монгол Улс) is a landlocked nation in central Asia, bordered by Russia to the north and the People's Republic of China to the south.
It was the center of the Mongol Empire of the 13th century, but was ruled by the Chinese Qing dynasty from the end of the 17th century until an independent government was again formed with Soviet assistance in 1921.
The 18th largest country in the world, Mongolia has very little arable land: much of its area is grassland, with mountains in the north and west and the Gobi Desert in the south.
www.bucyrus.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Mongolia   (1058 words)

  
 Politics of Mongolia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The birth of perestroika in the former Soviet Union and the democracy movement in eastern Europe were mirrored in Mongolia.
Mongolia's first multi-party elections for a People's Great Hural were held on 29 July 1990.
In addition to establishing Mongolia as an independent, sovereign republic and guaranteeing a number of rights and freedoms, the new constitution restructured the legislative branch of government, creating a unicameral legislature, the State Great Hural (SGH).
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Politics_of_Mongolia   (1197 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: Politics of Mongolia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
As the supreme government organ, the SGH is empowered to enact and amend laws, determine domestic and foreign policy, ratify international agreements, and declare a state of emergency.
Categories: Politics of Mongolia In the wake of the former Soviet Unions economic collapse, Mongolia began to pursue an independent and nonaligned foreign policy.
Flag ratio: 1:2 The flag of Mongolia was adopted on February 12, 1992.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Politics-of-Mongolia   (1773 words)

  
 EAST5405: Inner Mongolia—Society, Politics and Development
The Political status and organisation of the Inner Mongolian AR, as well as ethnic diversity and identities in Inner Mongolia.
State, Ethnicity, and the Politics of Representation in the PRC," in Melissa J. Brown (ed.), Negotiating Ethnicities in China and Taiwan.
Pasternak and J. Salaff (1993), Cowboys and Cultivators: The Chinese of Inner Mongolia.
www.personal.leeds.ac.uk /~chifc/EAST5405.html   (995 words)

  
 Population and Habitat   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
Mongolia's economy has traditionally has been based on agriculture and breeding of livestock.
Mongolia is home to wild populations of Prjewalski horse, camels, and the rare snow leopard.
Mongolia is home to six Ramsar internationally important wetland sites.
www.audubon.org /campaign/population_habitat/mongolia.html   (212 words)

  
 Mongolia - Gurupedia
Mongolia (Khalkha Mongolian: Монгол Улс) is a landlocked country in
Mongolian People's Revolutionary Party or MPRP, which was formed by Mongolia's communist leaders after the end of the Cold War.
Mongolia's economy is centered on oil, coal, and copper, with smaller industries in
www.gurupedia.com /m/mo/mongolia_(country).htm   (441 words)

  
 Mongolia and Wyoming/Montana
Mongolia is still inhabited by people who are culturally familiar with this unity: for many of them it is still daily reality.
Mongolia's medium-term future is extreme rural poverty, little emigration, and 100% concentration of development in Ulaan Bataar.
Mongolia WWW Virtual Library: several sites are related to the fascination in New Age circles for the Mongolian combination of Lama-ist Buddhism and Shamanism.
web.inter.nl.net /users/Paul.Treanor/mongoltana.html   (7482 words)

  
 Vodka and Politics - Mongolia - Mongolia Travel Stories :: BootsnAll Travel Network
As the political debate continues, it becomes increasingly apparent that there are many things Ochie doesn't like about the new Mongolia - the lazy city folk in Ulaanbaatar, the young chasing the quick buck.
Mongolia has a population of little over 2.5 million people, a third of whom live in the capital city of Ulaanbaatar, while the rest spread themselves over a vast country three times the size of France.
Mongolia is a country of empty spaces, unfenced and free to all - the "Land of the Blue Sky" as the tourist brochures claim.
www.bootsnall.com /articles/04-10/vodka-and-politics-mongolia.html   (802 words)

  
 Mongolia Series   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
From the Hustei Naroo horse preserve in central Mongolia, The World's Mary Kay Magistad tells their story.
Mongolia's government is a coalition of former communists and democratic reformers.
The World's Mary Kay Magistad reports on how this delicate political balance may be harder to create with its neighbors, Russia and China.
www.theworld.org /worldfeature/Mongolia/index.shtml   (495 words)

  
 Mongolia --  Encyclopædia Britannica   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
Its shape is that of an elongated oval, measuring 1,486 miles (2,392 kilometres) from west to east and, at its maximum, 782 miles from north to south.
Mongolia is bounded on the north by Russia and on the south by China.
Mongolia shares much of its modern history with Russia, its neighbor to the north, and China, which lies to the south.
www.britannica.com /eb/article-9108737   (837 words)

  
 NTU Info Centre: Mongolia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
Almost as big as Alaska, Mongolia has very little arable land: much of its area is grassland, with mountains in the north and west and the Gobi Desert in the south.
In the 13th century, Mongolia was the center of the Mongol Empire.
Mongolia continued to closely align itself with the Soviet Union, especially after the Sino-Soviet split of the late 50s.
www.nowtryus.com /article:Mongolia   (886 words)

  
 Mongolia Foreign Sources - Flags, Maps, Economy, History, Climate, Natural Resources, Current Issues, International ...
The emerging relaxation in internal politics and the thaw in key external foreign relations might, if they lasted, afford Mongolian leaders valuable opportunities to establish a sense of national identity and some measure of cultural authenticity, both probably essential to Mongolia's revitalization and revival in the 1990s.
Mongolia's contemporary politics have not been so widely studied by Western scholars as have the traditional historical subjects.
A shortage of qualified linguists, the inaccessibility of the country to foreign scholars, and the fact that Mongolia has not played a major independent role in international affairs, were the main reasons for the dearth of scholarship and reporting.
www.photius.com /countries/mongolia/government/mongolia_government_foreign_sources.html   (657 words)

  
 Mongolia Web News - Mongolia Websites
The Mongolia section features a virtual tour that takes you from the crowded capital to the pristine nature of the scarsely populated countryside.
Mongolia Expat - Mongolia's only English language monthly magazine, attached to a travel / culture website with forums and lots of travel articles, photos and Ulaanbaatar listings on where's hot and whats not.
A web-log or blog that is focused on anything related to Mongolia, from the first snowflakes to the dissapearing mausoleum.
www.mongolia-web.com /content/blogsection/2/119   (884 words)

  
 Mongolia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
Mongolia lies between Russia and China, and in modern history has been a Russian then Soviet ally.
Much of Mongolia's politics have been very similar to Eastern European politics, with its own phases of Stalinism and reform, and in 1989, liberalization followed by the election of reformed communists as democratic leaders.
The introductory paragraph is usually a quick summary of political conditions in the country.
www.iup.edu /politicalscience/courses/ps383/mg.htm   (561 words)

  
 Legal Ramifications of Foreign Aviation Operations in Mongolia
Politically, Mongolia had been under Communist rule in a system based on that of the former Soviet Union until 1990 when multiple-party elections were permitted and the long-standing bond with the USSR was dissolved.
Mongolia has realised that it is in a potentially compromising situation where foreign investors could take advantage of its transitory state of governmental affairs and is therefore guarding against this through taxes on the international corporations operating within its borders [19].
Following Mongolia's precedent of penalizing foreigners with fines for activities that while not criminal, are of nuisance to the government, it can be expected that chronic interference with telecommunications and broadcast radio will be met with levies and perhaps new regulations [48].
userpage.fu-berlin.de /~corff/im/Landeskunde/Air_and_Law.html   (4241 words)

  
 Politics of Mongolia -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
In the face of extended street protests in subzero weather and popular demands for faster reform, the (The chief executive and political committee of the Communist Party) politburo of the MPRP resigned in March 1990.
In addition to establishing Mongolia as an independent, sovereign republic and guaranteeing a number of rights and freedoms, the new constitution restructured the legislative branch of government, creating a unicameral legislature, the (Click link for more info and facts about State Great Hural) State Great Hural (SGH).
Local hurals are elected by the 18 aimags (provinces) plus the capital, (The capital and largest city of Mongolia) Ulaanbaatar, and cities of (Click link for more info and facts about Darhan) Darhan and (Click link for more info and facts about Erdenet) Erdenet.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/p/po/politics_of_mongolia.htm   (1186 words)

  
 List of politics by country articles - Open Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
This is a list of politics articles available for every country.
Saint Helena - Saint Kitts and Nevis - Saint Lucia - Politics of Saint Pierre and Miquelon - Saint Vincent and the Grenadines - Samoa - San Marino - São Tomé and Príncipe - Saudi Arabia - Scotland
Politics of the United Kingdom contains a lot of content that is relevant to Scotland and 2.
open-encyclopedia.com /List_of_politics_by_country_articles   (641 words)

  
 Mongolia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
After the war, the MPR was recognized by both the Republic of China and People's Republic of China, after pressure was applied by the USSR.
The Republic of China later refused to recognise the independence of Mongolia and vetoed every attempt of Mongolia to join the United Nations until 1961.
It aligned with the Soviets following the Sino-Soviet split of 1958 and housed many Soviet military bases during the Cold War.
www.yotor.com /wiki/en/mo/Mongolia.htm   (545 words)

  
 Mongolia Telecommunications - Flags, Maps, Economy, History, Climate, Natural Resources, Current Issues, International ...
In 1921 Mongolia nationalized postal and telecommunications services--then Russian-owned, Chinese-owned, and Danish-owned-- and placed them under the Postal and Telegraph Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
With Soviet assistance, Mongolia extended telephone and telegraph lines between 1923 and 1930, inaugurated motorized intercity mail delivery in 1925, and began radiobroadcasting in 1934 and television broadcasting in 1967.
In 1985 Mongolia's telephone, telegraph, and telex system included 420 postal, telephone, and telegraph offices; 28,000 kilometers of telephone and telegraph lines; and 49,300 telephones.
www.photius.com /countries/mongolia/economy/mongolia_economy_telecommunications.html   (488 words)

  
 The Journal of Asian Law | Back Issues
Mongolia’s political system has received well-deserved attention as one of the most successful examples of democratization in the Asian region.
This is all the more remarkable given that constitutional democracy has developed “without prerequisites,?that is, without a previous history of democracy or social pluralism that is sometimes thought necessary for democracy to flourish.
However, in recent years Mongolia’s Constitutional Court has found itself at the center of a major controversy regarding the very structure of the political system.
ccnmtl.columbia.edu /cu/asiaweb/v14n2Ginsburg   (203 words)

  
 US FY 1999 Congressional Presentation
The Government of Mongolia (GOM) and USAID recognize that Mongolia must create a stable political and economic environment if it is to attract the domestic and foreign investment necessary for development.
Much of Mongolia's power generation equipment was on the verge of being unserviceable and the country lacked the foreign exchange to purchase critically needed spare parts in international markets.
Indirect beneficiaries include the entire population of Mongolia because the activity has succeeded in averting a humanitarian, economic and political calamity in the energy sector, thereby permitting the GOM to move more rapidly in implementing its democratic and economic reform agenda.
www.usaid.gov /pubs/cp99/ane/mn.htm   (3283 words)

  
 Mongolia Web News
Kazakhstan and Mongolia took steps to solidify growing bilateral contacts during Tuesday's meeting...
Mongolia's Munkhzul Tsogbadrah took second place in the women's 25mm pistol individual event this week at the 24th Universiade in Bangkok.She lost by only 1.6 points to China's Wang Jieyi who score...
During the Stalinist purges of the 1930's almost every monastery in Mongolia was destroyed.
www.mongolia-web.com   (776 words)

  
 Mongolia Today - online magazine | Moscow and Buddhists
Historical documents show that the new regime in Mongolia was carefully crafted under watchful eye of the Komintern and Moscow.
It began with political and economic sanctions introduced during 1924-1937 and ended with the total confiscation of all monasteries property.
To behead the Buddhist religious institution several show trials involving high priests were staged to prove their "counter-revolutionary activities." All other priests, heads of monasteries, saints and those having teological degrees were arrested and executed.
www.mongoliatoday.com /issue/6/buddhist_moscow.html   (611 words)

  
 MIASU Chris Kaplonski
His research interests examine issues pertaining to identity, nationalism, and the democratic revolution in Mongolia, notions of ‘political tradition’ and the socialist legacy of political repression.
His most recent publication is the book Truth, history and politics in Mongolia: the memory of heroes, which was published in 2004 by RoutledgeCurzon.
His other publications on Mongolian politics broach issues pertaining to identity, nationalism, and the democratic revolution, notions of ‘political tradition’ and, most recently, the socialist legacy of political repression.
www.innerasiaresearch.org /ckaplonski.htm   (190 words)

  
 Mongolia
Under Chinese imperial administration Mongolia was not a unified province.
There were no imperial governors however, the reincarnated head of the Tibetan Buddhist establishment in Mongolia, played a significant role.
In 1911 the eighth Jebtsundamba (s.a.) assumed the title of Boghda Khan (Bogd Khan,) often translated as "Emperor" of Mongolia.
www.worldstatesmen.org /Mongolia.htm   (1196 words)

  
 Mongolia, U.S. toast strong ties - Nation/Politics - The Washington Times, America's Newspaper   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
The government has decided to become a "world-class peacekeeping force," that will be able to provide engineers, military police or infantry troops to world hot spots, the official said.
Mongolia is focusing its defense efforts on building close relations with its neighbors rather than undertaking a large-scale military buildup, the official said.
The United States is providing Mongolia's forces with $18 million to upgrade outdated and aging equipment.
washingtontimes.com /national/20051023-123716-5660r_page2.htm   (241 words)

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