17 January 2006
Mongolia Govertment Crisis update
Posted by khuushuur under: mongolia .
What happened today?
- Enkhbold was put forward by the MPRP as new prime minister
- groups of protesters for democracy, against the former communist party, protested by singing a song from the communist revolution in 1921, while one of the major groups announced it will now hold protests until Tsagaan Sar (January 29th)
- MPRP announced Mongolia will keep its forces in Iraq and Afghanistan
- I saw the vodka drinking olifants, their eyes looked a little red, but they did their tricks alright
- There is an angry proffesor in New York
UPDATE:
Interesting posts in blogworld
- Yan has the translation of an olloo survey on the current political situation among 600 people.
- Chris thinks “The foreign accounts of the situation tend to be much more dramatic and negative “
- again from Yan the following thought:
the whole mess still looks more like a power struggle than a struggle between democracy vs. authoritarianism (as implied by the democrats) or competent managers vs. incompetent dreamers (as implied by the MPRP), or corruption vs. honesty (as implied by both).
UPDATE 2:
The Vodka Drinking Elephants performing
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technorati: mongolia
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