Greetings, gentle Registanis.  I spotted a couple interesting stories with similar themes.  The theme might best be titled, to borrow from the Daily Show, Clusterf@#$ to the Poor House [Central Asian Edition]  More after the jump. Bailouts Kazakhstan’s President Nazarbaev increased the grow...

Mongolia saw some violence after a group of apparently drunk activists disputed the election and ransacked the headquarters of the Mongolian People’s Revolutionary Party and an adjacent art gallery. In response, the government banned alcohol sales as Prime Minister Sanjaagiin Bayar urged calm....

Posted by Mr. Batjargal , Director General of Fiscal Policies and Coordination Department, Mongolian Ministry of Finance (supported by M. Napodano and S. Erdermchimeg) In the post below, Mr. Batjargal, head of the Mongolian Budget Office presents his views on......

Going into the final day of this year's Osaka Grand Sumo Tournament, the two Mongolian yokozunas, Asashoryu and Hakuho, are tied for the lead with 2 losses each and will meet each other for the deciding match. Right behind them are two mid-level maegashira, the Georgian Kokkai and Estonian Baruto, w...

LiveJournal Brain Trust, A friend of mine in Mongolia is a student there and her dream is to come to the US. She recently earned a scholarship for a program to live and work in the US for her summer vacation put together by the Center for Youth Educational Cultural Exchange. They help arrange a J1 v...

So, this is my second to last instalment of Mongolia photos and reminiscing. I think I'm going to print my photos when I get home. I'm gonna have to go through them all and decide which ones to print, because I certainly can't print them all. This was actually in Erdenet, which is the second biggest...

So continuing with the "letters from Mongolia" theme, I got the one we were required to write to ourselves at the end of the semester in the mail today. It was hilarious (okay, hilarious might be an exaggeration, but it was amusing at the very least). I was in an odd mood when I was writing it, beca...

So, I posted a few pictures of Mongolia a while back, while I was still there... But not many because it was a huge pain in the ass to upload pictures on a dialup connection.  I got a letter from my host family's daughter who lived in UB (the family from Khovsgol), and I feel awful because I ha...

I'm in an internet cafe writing my paper now, and since this is how I do work... aka write in livejournal and check facebook 80,000,000 times I'm going to joyfully post a list of food that I really, REALLY miss. I expect to eat all of this within a week of getting home. I made this list while in Kho...

a lot has happened since i last posted, some of you may have heard in my mass email, but i'm not going to rehash it all here since it actually isn't all that interesting, or would be better shared in person. i dont want to get home and have wasted all my stories... but, last week i was in sukhbaatar...