Tuva and Mongolia: At the Nexus of Economics and Culture

Author(s): Matthew Kupfer
Editor(s): Stephen Aris, Matthias Neumann, Robert Orttung, Jeronim Perovic, Heiko Pleines, Hans-Henning Schröder, Aglaya Snetkov
Series: Russian Analytical Digest (RAD)
Issue: 161
Pages: 9-12
Publisher(s): Center for Security Studies (CSS), ETH Zurich; Research Centre for East European Studies, University of Bremen; Institute for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies, George Washington University
Publication Year: 2015

The past few years have brought an increase in economic ties between Mongolia and the Russian Federation's Republic of Tuva, with Mongolian entrepreneurs investing in several industrial projects across the border. Amid the collapse of relations with the West, Russia is seeking out new partners in Asia. Mongolia is certainly not China, but its growing economy and cultural commonalities with southern Siberia may create new opportunities for regional economic integration. Growing Tuvan-Mongolian relations provide anexample of how this process could occur in other border regions.

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