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Mongolia is accepting Russian demands to refuse US government funding for a railroad project and will ask the United States to redirect the funding to another project, the country’s foreign minister said during a visit to Washington.

Under the Millennium Challenge Corporation aid program, which rewards countries that liberalize their political and economic systems, Mongolia is set to receive $188 million in US funding to modernize its aging rail infrastructure. Russia, however, has objected to Mongolia taking the funding.
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Written by Honheree
974 days ago
The Mongolian Railway Company is a joint venture between the Russian and Mongolian governments, and if the Russian side does not agree to something, the Mongolian side can’t force them to accept it, explained Batbold Sukhbaatar, Mongolia’s minister for foreign affairs and trade. Sukhbaatar spoke at an event June 8 at the Hudson Institute in Washington, "Mongolia’s Relations with Russia and China and its ’Third Neighbor’ Relations with the United States and Japan."

So, it seems Mr. Putin, like he is doing to all other former Soviet vassel states, is putting stranglehold on Mongolian government. If he wants Oyu Tolgoi or Tavan Tolgoi, since the railway is going to both deposits, all he has to do is refuse to ship copper concentrate and coal from these deposits to any place other than to or through Russia. Am I the only sane person to see what is happening, or are other Mongolians in too deep in vodka to notice or care.
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