online magazine, issue no.1
						Where do Mongolians live? By Kh.Nyambuu, etnographer Today, there are over six million Mongolians in the world. They mainly live in three neighboring countries: two million in Mongolia, 3.5 million in China, and half a million in Russia     Taiga Law By Munkhijn Amagalan   Taiga forest has its own laws. People there speak rarely and in low voice. Though they do not welcome outsiders, they do not chase them away   Who are the Tsaatan - Forest People? High ranges of Sayan Mountains covered by thick forests, river valleys of Shishged, Tengis, Bus, Jams on northern border of Mongolia - these are places where the few remaining families of Tsaatan tribe, known from ancient times as Forest People, are living     Mongolian Women As Seen by Munkhtsetseg   Her style is very distinctive especially when the latest fad is for modernism or extreme nationalism. "I paint as I see" she says   Fishing Paradise   Mongolia is a true paradise for fishermen with more than 3,000 rivers and lakes filled up with fish and very few fishermen around. Traditionally, Mongols do not eat fish considering it to be inferior to meat, a "real" food, thus allowing fish to multiply as freely as they could for centuries   Gone Fishin' By Leah Kohlenberg When Mongolians fish for taimen, a gigantic river fish indigenous to neighboring Siberia, they often forgo regular bait and toss a mouse or ground squirrel in the water instead. "I have a friend who uses his child's teddy bear," says Jeff Liebert, who has run fishing tours in Mongolia since 1994     Naadam Festival or Three Manly Games   Naadam (naa-dm) that is how Mongols call one of two largest national holidays. The name of the festival means competition, sports. Indeed, it is a true test of manhood in such traditional games as horse racing, archery and wrestling     Wisdom of Nomads   From times immortal Mongols developed rich traditions of oral literature as the nomadic lifestyle did not allow to preserve heavy books. These proverbs contain the wisdom of nomads accumulated over the millenia and probably came from the times of Huns       Foreigners about Mongolia   Nizovtsev B.E., Russian scholar, 1966 William Douglas, Deputy Judge of the Supreme Court, USA, 1962 Owen Lattimore, an American Sinologist who visited Mongolia in 1969 Roy Chapman Andrews, 1933 Kozlov P.K. A Russian explorer of Central Asia, 1907 Kimura Ayako, a Japanese researcher who lived a decade in Mongolia, 1999 Paul Theroux, from his book Riding The Iron Rooster,1987
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