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Russian President Vladimir Putin, right, walks with Mongolian President Ukhnaagiin Khurelsukh, left, during a welcoming ceremony at Sukhbaatar Square in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, Tuesday, Sept. 3, 2024. (Kristina Kormilitsyna, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP, File)

International Criminal Court reports Mongolia to its oversight body for failing to arrest Putin

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Russian President Vladimir Putin, right, walks with Mongolian President Ukhnaagiin Khurelsukh, left, during welcoming ceremony at Sukhbaatar Square in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, Tuesday, Sept. 3, 2024. (Sofya Sandurskaya, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)

Russian President Putin visits Mongolia in defiance of arrest warrant for war crimes

By Andrew Salmon - The Washington Times

Russian President Vladimir Putin, left and Mongolian President Ukhnaagiin Khurelsukh shake hands as they pose for photos prior to the Russian-Mongolian talks at the Saaral Ordon Government Building in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, Tuesday, Sept. 3, 2024. (Kristina Kormilitsyna, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)

Russian leader Putin challenges international warrant for his arrest with visit to Mongolia

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Tourists enjoy horseback riding near the iconic Turtle Rock outcrop at the Terejl National Park outside Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia on July 3, 2024. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)

Mongolia is in the tourism spotlight and making it easier to visit. Reindeer sledding, anyone?

By Olivia Zhang and David Rising - Associated Press

A woman walks carrying an umbrella as it rains on Sukhbaatar Square in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, Thursday, June 27, 2024. A parliamentary election will be held in Mongolia on Friday, June 28, 2024 for the first time since the body was expanded to 126 seats, adding some uncertainty to a system that has been monopolized by two political parties and plagued by corruption. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)

Mongolia holds an election Friday. Its people see the government as benefiting the wealthy

By Ken Moritsugu - Associated Press

Chinese soldiers march in the venue for the upcoming Xiangshan Forum in Beijing, Sunday, Oct. 29, 2023. China and the United States appear to be restarting dialogue between their militaries, despite continuing disputes over Beijing's claims to Taiwan and the South China Sea. The U.S. says it will send Cynthia Carras, principal director for China, Taiwan and Mongolia to represent the Defense Department at the Xiangshan Forum in Beijing this month. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)

Pentagon fails to restart military talks, exchanges that China severed over Pelosi’s visit to Taiwan

By Bill Gertz - The Washington Times

CORRECTS NAME - Mongolia's Khandjar Myagmarjav competes during the women's pre-selection for breaking at the 19th Asian Games in Hangzhou, China, Friday, Oct. 6, 2023. (AP Photo/Louise Delmotte)

Mongolia, the land of Genghis Khan, goes modern with breakdancing, esports and 3x3 basketball

By Stephen Wade - Associated Press

Pope Francis is greeted by Cardinal Giorgio Marengo, left, Apostolic Prefect of Ulaanbaatar, and faithful gathered outside the Apostolic Prefecture in Ulaanbaatar's Kahn Uul district, Friday, Sept. 1, 2023. Pope Francis is traveling to Mongolia to encourage one of the world's smallest and newest Catholic communities. It's the first time a pope has visited the Asian country and comes at a time when the Vatican's relations with Mongolia's two powerful neighbors, Russia and China, are once again strained. (AP Photo/Louise Delmotte)

Pope arrives on first visit to Mongolia as Vatican relations with Russia and China remain strained

By Nicole Winfield And Saruul Enkhbold - Associated Press

Pope Francis attends a welcome ceremony, Saturday, Sept. 2, 2023, at the State Palace in Sukhbaatar Square in Ulaanbaatar. Pope Francis arrived in Mongolia on Friday morning for a four-day visit to encourage one of the world's smallest and newest Catholic communities. (AP Photo/Remo Casilli, pool)

Pope starts Mongolia visit by praising the country’s religious freedom dating back to Genghis Khan

By Nicole Winfield - Associated Press

A child runs past a mural showing Pope Francis with a depiction of nomadic daily life in Mongolian outside a church in Ulaanbaatar, Monday, Aug. 28, 2023. When Pope Francis travels to Mongolia this week, he will in some ways be completing a mission begun by the 13th century Pope Innocent IV, who dispatched emissaries east to ascertain the intentions of the rapidly expanding Mongol Empire and beseech its leaders to halt the bloodshed and convert. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)

Pope heads to Mongolia to minister to its few Catholics and complete centuries-old East-West mission

By Nicole Winfield - Associated Press

Pope Francis meets with pilgrims from Concesio and Sotto il Monte on the 60th anniversary of the death of Pope John XXIII and the election of Paul VI in St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican, Saturday, June 3, 2023. Pope Francis warned the Vatican's missionary fundraisers on Saturday to not allow financial corruption to creep into their work, insisting that spirituality and spreading the Gospel must drive their operations, not mere entrepreneurship. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)

Pope to visit Mongolia at end of summer in visit rich in geopolitical significance

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Sri Lankan Buddhist monks wait for the arrival of President Mahinda Rajapaksa at the Mattala Rajapaksa International Air Port in Mattala, Sri Lanka, Monday, March 18, 2013. The Chinese-funded airport built in the president’s hometown away from most of the country’s population is so barely used that elephants have been spotted wandering on its tarmac. (AP Photo/Sanka Gayashan, File)

China’s loans pushing world’s poorest countries to brink of collapse

By Bernard Condon - Associated Press

A group of Russians smile at the border crossing Verkhny Lars between Georgia and Russia on Friday, Sept. 23, 2022. Long lines of vehicles have formed at a border crossing between Russia's North Ossetia region and Georgia after Moscow announced a partial military mobilization. A day after President Vladimir Putin ordered a partial mobilization to bolster his troops in Ukraine, many Russians are leaving their homes. (AP Photo/Shakh Aivazov, File)

Putin’s call-up fuels Russians’ anger, protests and violence

By Dasha Litvinova - Associated Press

Southampton's Takumi Minamino controls the ball during an English Premier League soccer match between Southampton and Brighton at the St Mary's Stadium in Southampton, England, Sunday March 14, 2021. (Mike Hewitt/Pool via AP)

World Cup qualifying set to resume in Asia after 16 months

By JOHN DUERDEN - Associated Press

In this photo released by Xinhua News Agency, Mongolian Prime Minister Ukhnaa Khurelsukh at left prepare to cast his vote at a polling station in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, on Wednesday, June 24, 2020. Mongolians were voting in parliamentary elections Wednesday across the vast, lightly populated country, a U.S. ally squeezed between authoritarian governments in China and Russia. The polls are being held amid considerable success in the country's fight against the coronavirus, with just 215 cases of COVID-19 recorded. All of them have been imported and no one has died. (Chadraabal/Xinhua via AP)

Mongolian PM quits in COVID-19 hospital treatment scandal

By GANBAT NAMJILSANGARAV - Associated Press

Map of Yuan Dynasty empire The Washington Times

China’s war against the Mongolian language

By Jianli Yang and Lianchao Han

People gather for the cremation ceremony for Japanese war dead in World War II, in Papua province, Indonesia, March, 2013. Seventy-five years after the end of World War II, more than 1 million Japanese war dead are scattered throughout Asia, where the legacy of Japanese aggression still hampers recovery efforts. The missing Japanese make up about half of the 2.4 million soldiers who died overseas during Japan’s military rampage across Asia in the early 20th century. (Kyodo News via AP)

75 years later, 1 million Japanese war dead still missing

By MARI YAMAGUCHI - Associated Press

A resident in traditional costumes puts on plastic gloves as he arrives to vote at a polling station in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia on Wednesday, June 24, 2020. Mongolians were voting in parliamentary elections Wednesday across the vast, lightly populated country, a U.S. ally squeezed between authoritarian governments in China and Russia. (AP Photo/Khurelkhuu Enkhjargal)

Mongolian People’s Party retains strong parliament majority

By GANBAT NAMJILSANGARAV - Associated Press

Campaign workers and supporters of &quot;Right person-Electorate&quot; coalition led by National Labor Party parade with posters of their candidates and coalition symbols on the downtown street of Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, Monday, June 22, 2020. Mongolia holds parliamentary elections on Wednesday, continuing a nearly 30-year democratic system in a vast but lightly populated country sandwiched between authoritarian regimes in Russia and China and beset by economic problems. (AP Photo/Ganbat Namjilsangarav)

Economic concerns high as Mongolia holds national elections

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U.S. Defense Secretary Mark Esper, left, poses for a photo with horse “Marshall,&quot; named after Gen. George Marshall, after being presented to him in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, Thursday, Aug. 8, 2019. With one hand resting on the mane of a sturdy Mongolian horse, Esper invoked the name of one of America’s great soldiers as he sought to strengthen the military bonds between the U.S. and this landlocked democracy sandwiched between Russia and China. (AP Photo/Lolita Baldor)

Pentagon chief visits Mongolia to strengthen military bonds

By LOLITA C. BALDOR - Associated Press