Kh.Battulga, President of Mongolia has attacked the country’s anti-corruption agency for serving political interests. During a discussion entitled ‘Corruption is not Force Majeure’, held today at Citizens’ Chamber of State House, the President lambasted the Mongolian Independent Authority against Corruption (IAAC) as being a tool of politicians.

Top Russian rock band ‘Lyube’ arrived today (8 December) in Ulaanbaatar. A favourite of Vladimir Putin and millions of Russians, the group has performed on Red Square on Victory Day and has won numerous awards and accolades.

The Ulaanbaatar city administration has decided to create a city of ice consisting of sculptures by famous ice-artists. This winter wonderland will be built along the banks of the Selbe River between the Beijing Street bridge and the Sky Department store.

B.Shijirbat aka Canion got a very important “yes” when he went down on one knee and proposed to his girlfriend in front of an awe-struck audience and millions of viewers.

The Citizenship and Migration Authority of Mongolia has reported that 90 percent of visa offenders were in breach of visa extension rules, in other words, they had overstayed the period set in their visas; some travellers, however, have been arrested for trying to enter Buyant-Ukhaa border zone located within Chinggis Khaan International Airport using fake visa approvals.

A remarkable fossil from the final age of the dinosaurs70 million years ago, smuggled from Mongolia is being studied in Belgium. It is of a creature which roamed Earth’s ancient wetlands and may have looked like a duck and hunted like a duck—but was really a dinosaur related to Velociraptor.

Kh. Battulga is not only President of Mongolia, he is also President of the Mongolian Judo Association and, like Vladimir Putin, himself a skilled judoka. Earlier this week, Mongolia’s head of state had a meeting with Mr Marius Vizer, President of the International Judo Federation.

The defence ministers of South Korea and Mongolia agreed on Thursday to work together to resolve the North Korean nuclear and missile issue in their talks which are currently taking place in Seoul.

N.Zoljargal, a former chief of Mongolia’s Central Bank or Mongol Bank has been released on bail. Ulaanbaatar’s Chingeltei District Criminal Court imposed a travel ban on N.Zoljargal but ruled that it was unnecessary to keep him in custody.

Earlier today, 7 December, the Mongolian State Great Khural (parliament) overruled the latest presidential veto on the 2017 budget amendment. A total of 82.4 percent of the MP’s present in the chamber backed the decision of the two standing committees to reject the veto.