Countries in Central and Eastern Europe and Eurasia have a lower gender gap than the global average but only Latvian women have equal legal standing with men.
PM says he wants to see emergence of a “vibrant domestic space industry”.
Campaigners want compatriots law that would apply to peoples of Russia’s Buddhist republics and minorities with Mongolic origins the world over.
Politicians in the Moldovan separatist republic of Transnistria called on Russia and the international community for help, accused Chisinau of "economic strangulation".
Severe form of weather used to occur every eight to 12 years. Climate crisis means it now impacts country at least every other year.
Mineral-rich country posts highest GDP growth rate in five years, thanks mainly to coal sales that topped 66mn tonnes.
Government puts country on high alert after extreme cold causes crisis in animal husbandry sector.
Mongolia leverages unique heritage of armed forces to build bridges with nations as far away as US and India.
Livestock losses rise from 49,000 to around 285,000 in less than three months. Towards 20,000 herder families on the move looking for pasture.
Three firefighters among dead. Shocked city dwellers ask how it is that such vehicles carrying dangerous loads are permitted to travel into a residential neighbourhood, containing many schools.
Mongolia’s deep and untapped uranium reserves are generating global interest, allowing the landlocked nation to richly diversify its diplomacy.