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Mongolian authorities said they had created a working group to dialogue with the protesters. [5] It was reported that the government of Mongolia discussed the situation three times and introduced a "special regime" about the state-owned coal company Erdenes Tavantolgoy. The Minister of Economic Development named five former directors of the ...
The 2021 Mongolian protests were mass demonstrations and a nationwide strike that led to the fall of the prime minister Ukhnaagiin Khürelsükh. Thousands protested on the streets between 20 and 22 January 2021 against the government's response to the COVID-19 pandemic in Mongolia .
A four-day state of emergency, the first in Mongolia's history [7] was declared at by the Mongolian President, effective 11:30 p.m. on 1 July. [6] The state of emergency placed and a ban on the sale of alcohol, authorized police to use force to stop the protesters, and prevented television broadcasts outside of those made by state-run stations.
In February, the daily protests turned violent, but the danger soon diminished. [2] The unrest was witnessed by hundreds of thousands of others in Ulaanbaatar. The democratic reforms movement was dwindling while the 2019 Mongolian constitutional crisis was taking place. In April and May 2019, a series of votes was held for a new speaker in ...
Mongolia held its first democratic elections in 1990, following a peaceful 1990 revolution. [5] [6] From 1921 to 1990, Mongolia was a communist single-party state under the Mongolian People's Revolutionary Party. [7] Historically, Mongolian politics has been influenced by its two large neighbors, Russia and China. [8] [9]
Location of Xilingol League (red) in Inner Mongolia (orange), where the majority of protests occurred. On the night of May 10, 2011 an ethnic Mongol herdsman was killed by a coal truck driver near Xilinhot, Inner Mongolia, China. The incident, alongside grievances over mining development in the region and the perceived erosion of traditional ...
Police in China's Inner Mongolia region have detained at least 23 people following protests last week against a new policy that replaces Mongolian-language textbooks with Chinese ones in classrooms.
As these reforms coincided with the dissolution of the Soviet Union, which had until 1990 provided significant economic aid to Mongolia's state budget, the country did experience harsh economic problems: enterprises closed down, inflation rose, and basic food had to be rationed for a time.