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Episode Synopsis
Nomadic life and climate change, air pollution and endemic corruption - Mongolia’s economy has tripled in size since becoming a democracy thirty years ago and the sudden growth has brought many challenges. It is a nation of sweeping grassland pastures and an ever-growing Gobi desert, sealed between Russia to its north and China to its south. Such large autocratic neighbours bring a sense of threat to this fledgling democratic nation. All those issues and more are raised by the public and debated by a panel of politicians at the moment a new coalition government is being formed. Presented by Jonny Dymond at the Chinggis Khaan Museum in the Mongolian capital, Ulaanbaatar.The panel:
Bulgantuya Khurelbaatar: Deputy Speaker of the State Great Hural (Parliament), MP for the Mongolian People’s Party and former Minister for Labour and Social Protection
Jargalan Batbayar: Chairwoman of the Democratic Women's Union and MP for the Democratic Party
Munkhnaran Bayarlkhagva: Independent Analyst, formerly of the National Security Council of Mongolia
Munkhdul Badral Bontoi: Citizens' Representative of Sukhbaatar District Council and former Parliamentary Candidate for the HUN PartyProducer: Charlie Taylor
Bulgantuya Khurelbaatar: Deputy Speaker of the State Great Hural (Parliament), MP for the Mongolian People’s Party and former Minister for Labour and Social Protection
Jargalan Batbayar: Chairwoman of the Democratic Women's Union and MP for the Democratic Party
Munkhnaran Bayarlkhagva: Independent Analyst, formerly of the National Security Council of Mongolia
Munkhdul Badral Bontoi: Citizens' Representative of Sukhbaatar District Council and former Parliamentary Candidate for the HUN PartyProducer: Charlie Taylor
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