134 Country Report: Information Network

Media publications are an important tool for individuals curious about Mongolia to better understand the space. The following list will compile various media sources to connect readers to information about Mongolia from a variety of perspectives.

Traditional Periodicals

Unen

According to Wikipedia, Unen is Mongolia’s oldest newspaper and has over 200,000 daily subscribers. However, the print version of the newspaper is inaccessible online, so international users must reference Unen’s website, instead. Unen’s website is updated weekly and contains articles on health, sports, entertainment, politics, economy, environment, society, and world news. At the time of writing, recent posts include information about the origins of International Women’s Day, ambassador activities, anti-corruption whistleblowing, local disasters, and crackdowns on illegal cedar nut harvesting, an ecologically-destructive activity. Wikipedia also reports that Unen is aligned with the Mongolian’s People Party.

The source provides interesting updates on Mongolian news, and as as it is the longest-standing newspaper in Mongolia and has a large user base, it can help users from outside Mongolia understand the type of media many Mongolians might be consuming. However, on each article’s comment section, there is a notice stating, “WARNING: unen.mn is not responsible for comments written by readers. Our site restricts some inappropriate words and phrases in accordance with the CRC regulations, so please respect the rights of others when writing comments. The administrator has the right to delete comments that violate the rules.” This indicates that the media on the site abides by censorship laws and thus might not be an accurate representation of reality. Additionally, the website is only accessible to non-Mongolian-speaking individuals when read while using translation software. Still, individuals interested in learning more about Mongolian media may be interested in visiting Unen’s website to view content written from a Mongolian lens that falls within the bounds of government censorship requirements.

The UB Post

According to its website, “The UB Post was first founded in 1996 and has since become Mongolia’s leading English-language news outlet.” The UB Post is a print newspaper with an online counterpart; PressReader has full scans of each physical edition of the newspaper, which are typically published tri-weekly on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays. Users without access to PressReader can access the accompanying website here. According to Media Ownership Monitor, the current owner of Mongol News Group, the parent organization of The UB Post, is a woman named Nandintushig Baldorj who is not politically affiliated with any party, and the newspaper is privately owned.

The newspaper is divided into seven sections apart from the front page: Politics, Business & Economics, Domestic, Feature, Prime Interview, “What’s On,” and Art. In the edition published on March 1st, 2023, the art section was titled “Mongolian Life in 1900s” and contained relevant historical images and facts. The “What’s On” section highlights regional happenings of interest: on March 6th, the section focused on International Women’s day, including information on local hackathons, information about “Women in Tech Mongolia,” and details about a “Women’s Walk.” The source seems to have a bold yet unbiased perspective, at times describing current events through a descriptive lens and at times highlighting either praises or criticisms of government activities.

The UB Post posts current news stories and highlights regional culture: the March 6th edition, for instance, used its Art section to report on the “Eagle Festival, Intangible Cultural Heritage of Mongolia,” drawing attention to a regional cultural festival. Despite these strengths, users without access to PressDisplay will not have access to all of the information shown in the print version of the newspaper, leading to informational gaps between physical and online readers. Additionally, the fact that The UB Post is written in English, not Mongolian, may lead readers to question whether the intended audience of the publication is domestic or international.

According to pressreference.com, “a 1998 poll [reported that] more than 68 percent of Mongolians favor newspapers as their favorite form of media.” Therefore, The UB Post may allow users to understand more of Mongolian newspaper publications and expose themselves to Mongolia’s newspaper industry without needing to understand the Mongolian language.

Udriin Sonin

Udriin Sonin is a Mongolian newspaper with an online counterpart.  Media Ownership Monitor Mongolia reported that Udriin Sonin was “the most widely read newspaper [in Mongolia] with a circulation of 10,000 copies per issue” in 2015; it is privately owned and was founded by Mr. J. Myagmarsuren, a journalist associated with the Democratic Party. In 2016, the newspaper was also reported to be influenced by politicians including the then-president Elbegdorj Ts. Articles are published in Mongolian and cover topics including politics, the economy, sports, art, and culture.

Despite its alleged pro-state bias, this source is valuable in its coverage of diverse and interesting news stories around the nation. For example, one recent article asks Mongolian citizens what they are happy about and upset about, and readers hear Mongolian perspectives on their unhappiness with debt, pensions, and political corruption. Another article includes an interview with child psychologist S. Hulan on the psychological ramifications of social media use, and this article provides insights on the role of social media and mobile phones in the daily lives of Mongolian people. However, the site is only published in Mongolian, and due to Google Translate’s poor capabilities in translating the Mongolian language, the information is relatively inaccessible to non-Mongolian speakers as a result.

Mongolyn Medee

Mongolyn Medee is a newspaper operating in Mongolia with an online version available here. The newspaper and its online counterpart are written in Mongolian, and the source is updated daily. According to Media Ownership Monitor, the newspaper is owned by S. Gantogoo, the former president of the Mongolian Daily Newspapers Association, and reportedly has an unbiased perspective due to its private ownership and lack of political affiliation. The paper’s website contains sections including politics, opinions, society, entertainment, and horoscope.

The source is limited in its usefulness to non-Mongolian speakers due to its lack of an English translation. However, it is included here due to its small market share of 4.5%–unlike Unen, the UB Post, and Udriin Sonin, very few Mongolians read this particular newspaper, and this may intrigue researchers interested in exploring media outlets that are diverse in their numbers of readers.

New Media

Montsame: Mongolian News Agency

Montsame is a state-owned news agency founded in 1921 and headquartered in Ulaanbaatar, as reported by Wikipedia. It operates online with several language options available, including Mongolian, English, Russian, Chinese, and Japanese. Its homepage contains information about weather conditions in Mongolia and current exchange rates, and it reports news on topics including politics, the economy, society, the environment, development projects, and Mongolia’s “One Billion Trees” campaign. At the time of writing, recent articles have highlighted pioneering women in STEM, damages to health and the environment from air pollution in Ulaanbaatar, and an upcoming Netflix film made by Mongolian filmmakers.

While the website is strong in its ability to provide daily news updates, it is limited in its comprehensive representation of diverse perspectives, as it is a state-owned organization, with article authors having .gov.mn email suffixes. Potentially due to this fact, many articles seem to have a pro-state lens–for example, in articles on development projects, like “Mongolia Opens Third Rail Line to China,” the text appears to only include a state perspective on the benefits of the rail line, leaving readers unsure if that perspective has any counters among the Mongolian people or not.

State-owned and influenced media may be viewed as unreliable, but that doesn’t negate its existence and impact. People looking to learn more about Mongolia may choose to reference Montsame to learn more about Mongolia as it is presented by state-owned organizations, potentially comparing and contrasting the information gleaned there to information shared elsewhere.

News.mn

News.mn is a Mongolian news website headquartered in Ulaanbaatar with articles available in both Mongolian and English. The website is updated daily with articles about politics, economics, social news, entertainment, world happenings, and sport.

The political articles that I read seemed to have an unbiased and descriptive writing style. For example, the article “Israel and Mongolia Celebrates Thirty Years of Diplomatic Relations” only contained descriptive information about an event between the embassies of Israel and Mongolia without offering opinions on the matter. In the entertainment section, some articles seemed to have a pro-Mongolia stance, with one article describing Mongolia as a place with “friendly nomadic people” that “has to be experienced to believed” and inviting tourists to “stay the night under the stars” while visiting the nation. However, the site also contains articles commenting on negative aspects of life in Mongolia, like the articles titled “Mongolia has the World’s Highest Rate of Cancer Mortality” and “Mongolia Falls Six Places in the Corruption Index.”

Overall, this source offers objective coverage of happenings relevant to Mongolia. Additionally, the site allows for audience interaction through reactions and comments, giving users the opportunity to see other perspectives on the information shared. However, the source seems to have few authors and does not provide information on reporters. Every English article I found was posted by the same reporter, “Ankhtuya”; therefore, there is the potential that the articles available in English are filtered through one person’s individual lens or translation style. Additionally, the English and Mongolian sites are formatted differently, so it is unclear if the English site can comprehensively cover all of the information shared on news.mn. Many articles are also quite short, often just 3-5 short paragraphs. With these strengths and weaknesses in mind, News.mn is an intriguing source of information for users interested in Mongolia who wish to learn about current events without having access to physical newspapers.

Mongolia Media Watch

Mongolian Media Watch is a newsletter hosted on Substack which contains information about Mongolia’s media environment. The blog is hosted by Duuya Baatar, a woman from Mongolia who runs the Nest Center for Journalism Innovation and Development NGO and the Mongolian Fact-Checking Center. According to the first edition of the newsletter, Baatar created the newsletter for the Entrepreneurial Journalism Creators Project at the City University of New York with the goal of promoting journalism and media entrepreneurship.

Mongolian Media Watch takes on a perspective which is critical of government censorship and fact oriented. Its contents are available in English, whereas information posted on the Mongolian Fact-Checking Center’s website is posted in Mongolian. Thus, Mongolian Media Watch may be a good alternative for researchers interested in Baatar’s work who do not speak Mongolian. The source was emergency launched earlier than planned after a censorship law was proposed in Mongolia, and Baatar created four publications on the debacle. Baatar stated that after covering the law, she would focus on Central Asian reporters and their intiviatives in “building sustainable and viable newsrooms.”

While the source has been enormously important in covering the censorship law and its surrounding developments, it is weak in its lack of consistency in updates: the source has not been updated every two weeks as originally stated, and posts have ceased since the fourth update on the censorship law. It is unclear why the source has not been updated. Viewers interested in exploring a pioneering Mongolian fact-checkers work in combatting governmental censorship should visit the Substack to learn more.

The Asia Foundation’s InAsia Blog

According to its website, The Asia Foundation is a “nonprofit international development organization committed to improving lives and expanding opportunities across Asia and the Pacific.” The organization is based in San Francisco and Washington D.C. and has 18 offices across Asia. While not a traditional news outlet, its website does contain a blog titled InAsia which includes several articles written about Mongolia. These articles cover topics like Mongolia’s Law to Combat Domestic Violence and the rapid urbanization of Ulaanbaatar. The blog is updated several times per month, although articles are not only about Mongolia.

While InAsia is strong in its quantity of articles written about the digitally underrepresented country of Mongolia, its weaknesses are numerous. Firstly, the articles center The Asia Foundation’s work in their contents: for example, in the article on the Law to Combat Domestic Violence, the author discusses The Asia Foundation’s work in supporting policing initiatives against domestic violence. Therefore, viewers should be aware that the content included about Mongolia on the website might skew towards phenomena in which the foundation is involved.

Secondly, the perspective of the source is Western in origin and seems to promote U.S. development ideals. According to Wikipedia, The Asia Foundation was originally created by the CIA in the 1950s and was only nominally an NGO. Among its founders were CEOs and presidents of large corporations including what is now known as the Chevron Corporation. After whistleblowers exposed the CIA’s involvement with several organizations including The Asia Foundation, the organization reorganized to become a true NGO and refocused its goals away from spreading democracy and towards promoting more generalized development in Asia. Researchers interested in the InAsia blog should be informed of the origins of the source and critically evaluate whether the viewpoints in the blog are subjective or objective and whether they are representative of an indigenous Mongolian perspective.

Still, understanding Mongolia may also entail understanding how Mongolian development is influenced by foreign-based NGOs, so readers may be interested in reading InAsia’s articles about Mongolia.

Social Media

r/Mongolia

Reddit is a social media website which hosts topic-specific forums for users to engage in; among these forums is r/Mongolia. The forum was created in 2008, and while the anonymous nature of Reddit makes it difficult to verify the national origins of its founders, at least one forum moderator has indicated that they are originally from Mongolia. This forum is crowd-sourced, being updated each time a user makes a new post or responds to a post with a comment. At the time of writing, there are over 42,000 subscribers, meaning that the forum captures a wide range of perspectives.

Most of the posts are in English, and the post contents range from memes to current events in Mongolia to tourism questions asked by non-Mongolian users. Because of the breadth of perspectives captured on the forum, it is difficult to narrow down the biases present in the contents, but many posts seem to lean towards anti-colonialism, anti-Imperialism, anti-West, and anti-Kazakh nationalism viewpoints.

Users looking to learn about Mongolia through r/Mongolia must be cautioned that there is no way to verify whether posters are from Mongolia or not and that at times, content can be disturbing or inappropriate (while browsing, I was suddenly exposed to an image of a corpse). However, the source does succeed in connecting users to unofficial and impromptu texts documenting many perspectives on Mongolia. One post which represents this duality of strength and weakness is titled “8 Things I Hate About Mongolia or Being a Mongolian,” a post whose contents contain criticism of phenomena including nationalism, materialism, and exploitation that the user claims exists in Mongolia. The post is not linked here due to its inclusion of offensive slurs and crass language, but the writer does offer readers a look into their personal view of Mongolia–one that might not be accurate, agreeable, or appropriate, but highlights one (supposedly) Mongolian person’s perspective on their nation, a perspective which would likely never be presented as-is by a more official media outlet. The comment section of that post includes other users’ perspectives; some corroborate the post while others denounce the statements. Due to the anonymous and unverified nature of Reddit posts, I recommend that readers avoid looking to r/Mongolia as a primary source of knowledge about the country, but instead choose to view the posts as a means through which they can explore the landscape of Mongolia-related social media.

Social media is a medium through which people learn about others, but often, algorithms restrict viewers to content made in spaces similar to theirs. r/Mongolia allows international audiences to view unfiltered opinions about Mongolia, either from local or international voices, and viewers may consider comparing inaccurate or harmful information found there to inaccurate or harmful information found in digital spaces local to them. r/Mongolia also has the potential ability to connect Mongolian people to other users of their nationality and communicate information to them that is pertinent to their geospatial positionality, as well as the potential ability to introduce international users to topics regarding Mongolia that they may not have heard of, encouraging them to conduct follow-up research on those topics using more reliable media sources.

@USAmbMongolia on Twitter

For a more official social media medium of information relating to Mongolia, researchers can reference the Twitter account of Ambassador Richard Buangan, the U.S. Ambassador to Mongolia. The source contains tweets about ambassadorial activity in Mongolia, and the page is updated several times each month. The tweets are posted in either Mongolian or English, and recent posts include updates on meetings that the ambassador has had, including a meeting with JCI Mongolia, an organization that appears to focus on young Mongolian leaders.

The source is strong in its consistent updates and its relevancy to researchers seeking information in Mongolia from the perspective of an ambassador in the nation. However, its strength is limited by the short nature of Twitter posts, and not all posts are relevant to Mongolia–one recent post centered around a San Diego State basketball game. Ultimately, the source is useful in documenting an official US perspective on happenings in Mongolia and can also be utilized to inform researchers on organizations that are doing work with the US Embassy in Mongolia.

Facebook

Facebook is reportedly the most popular social media website in Mongolia, accounting for almost 90% of the social media market in the country, so users may be interested in exploring pages based in Mongolia to understand the country’s most popular form of social media communications. Similarly to Reddit, it is difficult to verify the national origins or potential biases of Facebook users and their pages, so viewers should consume content on the site with critical curiosity.

Some pages which users may find interesting include the Autism Association of Mongolia page, a page created by an NGO of the same name which is based in Mongolia and contains content written in the Mongolian language, or the Mongolia Ulaanbaatar Mission group, a group which seems to serve Mormon missionaries living in Ulaanbaatar and contains posts written in both Mongolian and English. The difference in the themes between these two pages alone may convey the diversity of Mongolia-related content available on the platform, and this is both a strength and a weakness: a strength due to the platform’s ability to demonstrate the variety of digital communications occurring within or about Mongolia and a weakness due to the inconsistency in perspective of posts published on the website.

As Reddit shares similar strengths and weaknesses to Facebook but only makes up around .1% of the social media market in Mongolia, users may prefer to reference Facebook pages pertaining to Mongolia due to their greater relevancy to the country’s media landscape.

Mongolian Language \ Nomiin Ger School

Mongolian Language \ Nomiin Ger School is the title of a YouTube channel run by a Mongolian woman who has been teaching Mongolian for 12 years. The channel provides viewers with lessons on the Mongolian language, combining culture, grammar, and vocabulary in a way that is accessible to English speakers. According to the channel’s description, it was created “to reach out to those interested in the Mongolian language and culture worldwide” and “to help everybody learn the Mongolian language and keep up to date with the rapid, exciting, cultural, and developmental changes that modern Mongolia is experiencing.” The channel is based in Mongolia and has been in existence since 2014; the channel is updated with new videos around twice a month.

The channel owner explains that she is originally from the steppe and infuses her rural perspective in videos. Therefore, some videos tend to focus on traditional aspects of Mongolian culture, like this video on traditional Mongolian games played with the ankle bones of livestock. This channel provides researchers with a means of introducing themselves to the language which can be used for both personal enrichment and a potential ability to begin to engage with Mongolian media not translated to English.

Data

National Statistics Office

The National Statistics Office (NSO) of Mongolia publishes statistical data on Mongolia on their website. According to social protection.org, “the NSO of Mongolia is not an agency of the government, it is an independent agency under the supervision of the Parliament,” and “the chairman of the National Statistical Office is appointed by the State Great Hural with the tenure of 6 years” and “is accountable and report on his/ her activities to the State Great Hural.” The site is available in both Mongolian and English, and it publishes data on a range of subjects, including population, inflation, GDP, unemployment, education, industry, and wages.

The NSO’s data is robust, and the site is well-organized. Additionally, the NSO’s data publications appear to be unbiased and strictly descriptive, although its connection to the parliament does raise questions about its true perspective. The website is slow to load, and some posts are confusingly labeled in the English version of the site: one post about “Industrial Producer Price Index, in February of 2023” is found through a link titled “dsdf.” Furthermore, the website’s SEO is lacking, as its Google metadata simply says “Web site created using create-react app.” Still, the source is valuable in its ability to connect users with statistical information on various facets of Mongolia, aiding both Mongolian and international users in their Mongolia-related research endeavors.

The Press Institute of Mongolia

The Press Institute of Mongolia is self-reportedly a “professional knowledge institute that aims to create a responsible, credible and transparent information environment in Mongolian society.” According to the Global Investigative Journalism Network, it is a non-profit NGO founded in 1996. The organization is partnered with organizations including The Asia Foundation, UNESCO, the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation SDC, Unicef, USAID, and the United States of America Embassy, and this might influence the perspective of the data presented by the organization. The institute’s website contains much information relating to research publications on Mongolia’s media landscape, including data on information disseminated during elections and media monitoring reports.

Despite the plethora of research and data discussed on the site, it is unclear how users can access or download the data for reference. This is in part due to poor user interface of the website and broken links. Therefore, while the Press Institute of Mongolia has the potential to serve as a helpful outlet of data relevant to researchers interested in Mongolia’s website, it is limited by its inaccessibility.

However, beyond the primary website of the Press Institute of Mongolia, users can access data from the institution on Media Ownership Monitor Mongolia 2016, a project of the Press Institute of Mongolia made in collaboration with Reporters without Borders. The project is based in the Sukhbaatar region of Mongolia and publishes data on media usage in Mongolia, media ownership in Mongolia, and biases associated with Mongolian media outlets. This website’s data is exceedingly useful for researchers interested in understanding Mongolia’s information environment and may also be used to explore Mongolian media sources beyond those which are covered in this document.

Reporters Without Borders

Reporters without Borders (RSF) is a non-profit NGO headquartered in Paris focused on promoting the right to information. The organization “has consultative status with the United Nations, UNESCO, the Council of Europe and the International Organization of Francophonie,” and it works with correspondents around the world. Its perspective may be shaped by its Western positionality, and it has previously been accused of having a politically biased perspective. Nonetheless, RSF’s page on Mongolia is a useful source of data on Mongolia’s information landscape.

The data on RSF’s page regarding Mongolia includes its World Press Freedom Index, an index which takes into account political, economic, legislative, social, and security indicators press freedom. In addition to this numerical data, the site also contains textual information on Mongolia, including information on its media landscape and sociocultural context. RSF’s page is limited in its usefulness by the scope of the data available—as opposed to the NSO, which reported a broad variety of Mongolian data, RSF’s data on Mongolia is specific to the country’s press freedom. However, RSF’s index is quite useful for researchers seeking to understand Mongolia’s media as it relates to other nations, as the nature of the World Press Freedom Index allows for one nation’s score to be compared to another’s.

The World Factbook

The CIA’s World Factbook is a dataset which provides data on countries and territories. The World Factbook’s entry on Mongolia includes data and information on a variety of topics pertaining to Mongolia, including its geography, population, environment, government. The data on the page has been updated as recently as 2023 and is written in English.

The CIA is an institution of the United States’ government, and as a result, the data on Mongolia is presented from an American perspective: this is made clear when the page describes Mongolia’s area using US states as reference, describing the country as “slightly smaller than Alaska; more than twice the size of Texas.” Therefore, researchers searching for data published by Mongolian organizations or from a Mongolian perspective will prefer other datasets. Still, this data is useful for researchers seeking to introduce themselves to general information about Mongolia using data that is easily accessible for English speakers.

Visual and Audio Based Sources

Modern Mongolia

Modern Mongolia is a podcast created by Mongolian cultural anthropologist Dono. The podcast is in English and is available to stream on podcast streaming services like Spotify. The podcast began in December of 2020, and its most recent episode was published on March 6th, 2023. Its episodes cover a variety of topics, including the authors “reverse culture shock” when returning to Mongolia from abroad, interviews with people who have immigrated to Mongolia, COVID lockdown information, fun facts about Mongolia, Lunar New Year traditions, government decisions (like prohibiting alcohol during the COVID lockdown to reduce high rates of domestic violence), Mongolian art, and shamanism.

Dono states that her podcast is meant to focus on modern Mongolia’s “society, culture, people, issues, music, [and] art.” Her work offers listeners exposure to an authentic voice speaking on the nation, and she even pauses some podcast episodes to play the music of local artists. However, the podcast is rarely updated: since 2020, there have only been 8 episodes published. Despite this, the Modern Mongolia podcast is an enjoyable and informative method for individuals to learn more about Mongolia through an audio-based medium, especially if they are interested in personal accounts of experiences in Mongolia.

Real Mongolia

Real Mongolia is a YouTube channel whose description reads, “Mongolia through a Mongolian’s perspective.” The channel is comprised of visual media which offer viewers a glimpse into Mongolian life. The account is run by a man from Mongolia named Bayaraa who states that the channel’s goal is to provide viewers with “information about Mongolia without censorship and filtering of mainstream media.” The account owner speaks English, and when he interviews speakers of Mongolian, he includes translated subtitles.

The channel is updated with new videos around two to three times per month. The subjects of these videos vary from formal interviews, street interviews, first-person videos of the account owner walking and driving in various areas around the country, and videos of events including cultural celebrations, political protests, and music festivals. The source offers viewers an unbiased perspective on events by providing videos of scenery without any commentary, and it covers both rural and urban perspectives, showing uninhabited spaces and underrepresented cities in addition to Ulaanbaatar.

The channel is less official than other more formal or traditional media outlets, but this may be intriguing to some users. For instance, those interested in an unedited and unbiased view into Mongolian life may appreciate the video showing a non-narrated New Year’s Eve celebration in Ulaanbaatar, and those interested in hearing authentic Mongolian perspectives may appreciate the channel’s street interviews, like that which is titled “What do Mongolians Think of America?”

MNB World

MNB World is a YouTube channel serving as an English-language online version of the Mongolia National Broadcaster’s publications. According to Wikipedia, the Mongolia National Broadcaster (MNB) is a public service broadcaster founded in 1931 which is state-funded, based in Ulaanbaatar, and owned by the President of Mongolia. As MNB is reportedly able to be accessed in over 90% of Mongolian households, researchers interested in exploring the official media source without understanding Mongolian may be intrigued by MNB World’s videos, which are published multiple times each day. The MNB World Youtube channel is operated by the Mongolian government, and its governmental perspective is disclaimed by YouTube on each video.

One strength of the source is its ability to provide viewers to learn more about Mongolian current events in a visual medium: one recent video informs viewers on the Mongolian Cyrillic alphabet and its history, while another reports that pneumonia has become the leading cause of death in the country. Additionally, it continues to inform viewers on state-sanctioned media, and can provide an interesting counterpart to unofficial reporting like Mongolia Media Watch and Real Mongolia. However, the source may be slightly difficult for English speakers to understand due to unnaturally translated titles and a lack of subtitles. Additionally, not all videos are relevant to Mongolia, as one recent video is titled “Facts About Mongolia – Teeth” but only discusses teeth without mentioning Mongolia.

Mongolian Queer Podcast

The Mongolian Queer Podcast is a podcast hosted on streaming services including Spotify. The show is produced by the LGBT Center of Mongolia and conducted in Mongolian from a queer perspective. Episodes are posted sporadically, but the podcast appears to be currently maintained at the time of writing. According to the LGBT Centre’s Instagram page, a recent episode included an interview with two transwomen who won a 2022 beauty pageant.

While the podcast is not in English, I felt that it was important to include due to the podcast’s queer perspective.  According to an interview with a queer 19-year old woman published in a Global Voices article, Mongolia’s LGBT Centre, which is based in Ulaanbaatar, is underreported and underfunded, but it is “trying to get its voice heard.” LGBTQ+ individuals are allegedly erased from Mongolian society often; the Mongolian Queer Podcast exists as a tangible living artifact of resistance to this erasure.