Mongolia is a sovereign country in eastern Asia. It borders Russia to the north and East Turkestan, the PRC and Manchuria to the south.
History[]
Mongolia had regained its independence in 1911, but it later became a target of the Soviet Union. Instead of annexing Mongolia, it became a satellite state.
During the years of Perestroika, Mongolia decided to become a capitalist state unsuccessfully. It did, however, have to face the consequences of the Tiananmen Square protests and paved way to a new, larger Mongolia. The Seoul Partition of 1989 gave Inner Mongolia to Mongolia rather than seceding the territory. Mongolia requested that Inner Mongolia would be theirs rather than being a part of a foreign country.
On October 1, 1989, the effects of the Seoul Partition in Mongolia started to show. The country had a population of two million, however the population levels increased sharply to reach around twenty million. Initially there were plans to move the capital to Hohhot, but these were eventually proven fruitless. Initially Mongolia remained a Soviet satellite until the USSR fell in 1991. Mongolia then became a capitalist country, with democratic elections being held. However, as it turned out, even Mongolia was still stuck in the past, with some Communist measures still taking place. They were repealed around 1994.
Culture[]
Languages[]
Until 2012, Mongolia had one official language: Mongolian. The influence of its neighbors has given way to further rectifications of the "official languages" section of the Mongolian constitution. Due to sizeable numbers of people speaking Mandarin, especially coming from the former Chinese Inner Mongolia, Mandarin had to be adopted as an official language. Russian was later added, followed by Tuva, Buryat and Manchu.
Media[]
The main television broadcasters are the Mongolian National Broadcaster (MNB), which operates six nationwide television channels (four in Mongolian and two in other Mongolic languages), Nei Mongol Television (NMTV), a Mandarin broadcaster from the former Chinese Inner Mongolia and commercial broadcasters, the most noteworthy being UBS, TV5, TV9, C1 and Edutainment TV.
One of the more notable commercial television stations was Eagle TV, which was famous for being a "real alternative" to the local television channels due to it being funded by Americans, and was also notable for it being an oddity in the region, a Christian television station in the middle of Asia. Its political and religious views have been the target of countless shutdowns and has since been sold to a Mongolian company, MongolMassMedia LLC, and dropped religious programming.