Entitled ‘Thousands of Horses of the Steppe’, is an annual winter festival which takes place in Altanbulag soum, 50km from Ulaanbaatar on 18-19th of February.

The ‘Ulaanbaatar Winter Festival-2017’, a family event, promoting physical exercise and winter sports will take place at the National Park on 11-12th of February.

Ahead of the Mongolian national celebration ‘Tsagaan Sar’ (White Moon), a traditional music festival entitled ‘Mongolia’ takes place annually.

J.Batsuuri, Minister of Education, Culture and Sciences received S.V.Chepurnoi, Ambassador of Belarus to Mongolia on 6th of February.

Mongolian members of parliament competed in a chess competition entitled “Tsetsen Tushee” (literal meaning: “Wise Official”), which was held at the State House on 6th of February.

A farewell ceremony for Mongolian-born ’komusubi’ Tokitenku, who died on January 31st, has taken place in Tokyo. Tokitenku Khuchitbaatar died aged 37 of malignant lymphoma.

In 2015, Ch.Saikhanbileg, former Prime Minister of Mongolia signed a memorandum of understanding with China to build a new power plant in the Baganuur district.

Mongolian police dog Molly has received a medal for sniffing out a large number of crimes; its handler O.Tumenjargal was awarded a cash payment.

On 3rd of February, P.Sergelen, Minister of Food, Agriculture and Light Industrial had a meeting with Russian Ambassador Iskander K.Azizov.

Following the new amendments to the Law on Value Added Tax, for the first time, 461,865 individual VAT payers have received a reimbursement of up to 20 percent, totalling MNT33.8 billion.