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New President Mongolia - billionaire, judoka, artist and with a Russian wife
Khaltmaagiin Battulga is the new President of Mongolia. Artist, athlete, entrepreneur, former minister, politician He is also an exemplary father and son. Kh. Battulga is considered one of richest people Mongolia, is the owner of the Zhenko corporation. Speaks Russian and English, reports the ARD portal.
The candidate from the opposition Democratic Party of Mongolia, Khaltmaagiin Battulga, won the presidential election. 1 million 207 thousand 787 voters took part in the second round of voting, the voter turnout was 60.67%, the election results were recognized as valid. According to the results, Battulga received 610,451 votes (50.61%).
Khaltmaagiin Battulga was born on March 3, 1963 in Ulaanbaatar. His father is a native of Bayantsagaan soum, from Bayankhongor aimag, and his mother is from Galuut soum. His parents have long been residents of the capital. Battulga has a younger brother and an older sister.
He studied at high school No. 34 of the city of Ulaanbaatar. After graduation, he entered the School of Fine Arts, where he studied “monumental art.” Since 1982, Battulga began working in the Association of Artists.
Once, when he was still studying at the school of fine arts, he sold his painting to tourists near the Bayangol hotel. Now the Bayangol Hotel is owned by Battulga.
One of his hobbies is martial arts. When he became the world champion in sambo, he was awarded an apartment in Ulaanbaatar. Battulga participated in the World Championship three times and won a full set of medals - gold, silver and bronze. In 1989, he took 1st place at the World Sambo Cup and received a 4-room apartment, which, by his own admission, he had been waiting for so long.
His activities in sports were highly appreciated by the state and he was awarded the title of Honored Athlete of Mongolia. In September 2006, he became president of the Mongolian Judo Federation. Since then, he has supported Mongolian judo at his own expense and donated more than 1 billion tugriks ($419 thousand) for the development of this sport.
Battulga started his small business in 1990. At that time, fabrics produced in Mongolia were very cheap, from which Battulga sewed children's clothing. I sold it in Hungary and then in Singapore. From Singapore he brought several video cameras to Mongolia, which he bought for $600, and in Mongolia he sold them for $1,200. This is how today's billionaire began to earn his capital.
His political career began in 2002. In Bayankhongor aimak there was a very difficult winter, which in Mongolia such winters are called “dzud”. His parents, natives of Bayankhongor aimag, asked him to help local shepherds who had lost their livestock as a result of this natural disaster. Then Battulga saw up close the harsh life of the common people. And, according to him, he finally decided to engage in politics.
He was elected as a deputy, served as Minister of Transport, and then as Minister of Industry of Mongolia.
His first wife, Ts. Enkhtuyaa, is the director of the Nudelchin company.
His current wife is Angelica Davain, who is Russian by origin. The couple have two twins. Photos of the current wife in the press and open sources No.
Battulga used the image of Vladimir Putin in his election race.
Election poster with inscription "The President is like Putin"
New President of Mongolia Khaltmaagiin Battulga On Monday, he officially took office as the President of Mongolia, the Montsame agency reports.
The inauguration ceremony took place at the State Residence in the presence of deputies, the head of the Constitutional Court, other candidates who participated in the 2017 presidential elections, and foreign diplomats.
In his speech, the new president promised, in particular, to pay attention to the development of foreign relations and the expansion of friendly relations with China and Russia in all directions.
Battulga, candidate of the minority Democratic Party in parliament, On July 7 he won in the second round of the presidential elections in Mongolia. According to preliminary calculations, Battulga scored 50.6% of the vote, turnout was 60.9%.
Battulga is a young, charismatic politician, successful businessman, artist and athlete. He is considered one of the richest people in Mongolia and is the owner of the Zhenko corporation. Speaks Russian and English, reports the ARD portal.
As political scientists point out, he makes the main bet in his policy on the development of economic cooperation with Russia - " We have many unrealized opportunities in relations with Russia." Battulga considers it necessary to review a number of conditions put forward by the IMF on the state loan and oblige foreign companies mining companies in Mongolia conduct transactions through Mongolian banks. The new president also intends to diversify foreign trade, reducing dependence on China.
Khaltmaagiin Battulga was born on March 3, 1963 in Ulaanbaatar. One of his hobbies is martial arts. Battulga participated in the World Sambo Championship three times and won a full set of medals - gold, silver and bronze.
In 1989, he took 1st place at the World Sambo Cup, for which he received from the state a four-room apartment, which, by his own admission, he had been waiting for so long. Awarded the title of Honored Athlete of Mongolia.
In September 2006, he became president of the Mongolian Judo Federation. Since then, he has supported Mongolian judo at his own expense and donated more than 1 billion tugriks ($419 thousand) for the development of this sport.
He was elected as a deputy, served as Minister of Transport, and then as Minister of Industry of Mongolia. His first wife Ts. Enkhtuyaa - Director of the Nudelchin company. His current wife Angelica Davain
Russian by origin (according to Mongolian sources, she is not a citizen of Russia, but was born in Khentii aimag). The couple have two twin children.
Donald Trump is a big fan of golf, Vladimir Putin is into judo and hockey, and his Turkish colleague Recep Erdogan is into football. The President of Mongolia Khaltmaagiin Battulga also achieved great success in politics and sports. He trained in sambo and sumo wrestling and has been going to the gym since a young age.
For his pumped up muscles and excellent fitness, the British publication Metro called 56-year-old Battulga not a politician, but a real superman.
From sport to business In his younger years, the president practiced judo, sumo and sambo, in which he became the world champion in 1983. This victory brought the guy fame in his native Mongolia. However, he did not limit himself to sports. Khaltmaagiin Battulga famous artist
, studied art at the university and is an active member of the Mongolian Artists Association.
After retiring from sports, Khaltmaagiin Battulga went into business. At first he sold jeans at the market, transported video cameras from Singapore, and then opened the Genco company, which decades later became a large holding. The corporation is engaged in the production and sale of food products, mining, finance, design, information technology
In 2008, Khaltmaagiin Battulga, near Ulaanbaatar, the capital of Mongolia, built a 40-meter statue of Genghis Khan. The monument cost more than four million dollars.
In 2004, Khaltmaagiin Battulga became a member of the Mongolian parliament. He later served as Minister of Transport, Industry, Agriculture. In 2017, Battulga was nominated by the Democratic Party for the presidency, and won the election.
New President
The current Mongolian president is one of the richest people in the country, but he refused to live in the highly guarded presidential residence. Instead, Battulga settled in the center of Ulaanbaatar in small house.
Despite his busy schedule, the President of Mongolia spends several hours a day playing sports gym. Khaltmaagiin personally supervises the preparation of Mongolian athletes for competitions and promises rewards for victories.
The President walks to work, thereby showing officials that it is time to become simpler and give up luxury. When the president's motorcade does travel through the city, its cars stop at crossings and allow pedestrians to pass.
A descendant of the steppe rich people, Battulga is now married for the second time to a Russian. His wife, Angelika (Olesya) Battulga, is Russian by nationality, a citizen of Mongolia.
President Khaltmaagiin Battulga considers his main task to be attracting investment and tourists to the country. To do this, he began the fight against the Mongolian oligarchs and is improving the environmental situation in the capital Ulaanbaatar.
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Battulga used the image of Vladimir Putin in his election race.
Election poster with the inscription "President like Putin"
Presidential candidate from the opposition Democratic Party Khaltmaagiin Battulga won the second round of the presidential elections in Mongolia.
Khaltmaagiin Battulga received 610.54 thousand votes (50.6%). The representative of the ruling Mongolian People's Party, Speaker of Parliament Miyegombyn Enkhbold received 496.84 thousand votes (41.2%). The remaining 8.14% of ballots were thrown into the ballot boxes empty. The final election results will be announced after all votes have been counted.
The elected President of Mongolia is one of the richest people in Mongolia (he heads the Zhenko Corporation). He was a member of the country's parliament and the Minister of Transport and Infrastructure of Mongolia. From 1985 to 1989 he was a member of the Mongolia national sambo team. In 1989 he became the world champion in this sport. Since 2006, he has headed the Mongolian Judo Federation. His second wife, Angelica Davain, is Russian by origin, and gave birth to four twin boys.
Bright, rich and dangerous - this is how the Mongols describe him.
Artist, athlete, entrepreneur, former minister, politician. An exemplary son and father. ARD mentioned him more than once on a variety of occasions. His ideas are usually grandiose, he is considered one of the richest people in Mongolia, and is the owner of the Zhenko corporation. A few years ago, ARD also published an interview with him.
The personality of Khaltmaagiin Battulga and his activities have always caused mixed assessments.
In March 2016, ARD reported that Mongolian security forces detained G. Tuvshinjargal, former assistant to “Zhenko” Kh. Battulgi and his secretary Sh. Erdenetuya, who has been working with the deputy for more than ten years.
“I myself willingly testified and long ago provided the security forces with all the relevant documents and evidence. My guys were detained illegally, their rights were violated. Apparently, they couldn’t “break” the guys, so they took on the women, one of whom had a baby. What do they hope to find from secretaries? And all this because our guys and I fought to prevent foreigners from taking over Tavan Tolgoi for 60, or even 100 years.”
In addition, last summer the newspaper “Unoodor” reported that he was “involved as a defendant in the matter of abuse of official position and causing damage to the state on an especially large scale.”
The Department for Combating Economic Crime of the Criminal Police, together with the Investigation Department of the Anti-Corruption Directorate, has created a working group that is conducting an investigation into the issue of providing the South Korean company Samsung C&T with the title of “agreement on the transfer of rights to carry out creative work on the railway branch in the direction of Wuhaa.” Khudag-Gashuun Sukhait with a length of 267 km” without announcing a tender, as well as abuse of official position and causing damage to the state on an especially large scale as part of the implementation of the project to carry out creative work “New Railway”.
Another scandal in which the name of the deputy appeared was related to plans for the construction of roads and railways in Mongolia. According to the Ministry of Labor, in Mongolia there are currently almost 180 thousand unemployed and not studying citizens under 29 years of age. 90 thousand of them are men. There is always a shortage of labor for the construction of roads and railways, so foreign workers have to be hired.
To solve this problem, Mongolia plans to use military service, that is, to mobilize 10 thousand guys into the railway troops, and thus solve the issue of labor shortage for the construction of the railway and highway, noted the speaker of the VGH Zandaahugiin Enkhbold. One of the initiators of this project is the controversial MP of the Supreme State Assembly Kh. Battulga. On this occasion, the mayor of the city of Ulaanbaatar, Mr. E. Bat-Uul, said the following:
“As I believe, Battulga will resurrect the spirit of Hitler and Stalin. He was a communist junta, but I didn’t know.”
Thus, the mayor hinted that MP Kh. Battulga wants to use forced labor of military personnel in this project. He even compared the future railway troops of Mongolia with Russian prisoners of war who built the autobahn and railway for Nazi Germany. And he added that the railway through Mongolia and China was built by the Vlasovites on the orders of Stalin.
In fact, this project will be jointly implemented by the Ministry of Defense and the Ministry of Labor of Mongolia. On 3 directions railway There are 10 thousand jobs in Gashuun Sukhait, Sainshand and Bichigt border post. This is where these railway troops will work. And as the speaker of the Military Civil Aviation Z. Enkhbold said, all military personnel will receive a salary. Whether Mr. Mayor knew about this, or deliberately said so, no one knows. And other people, for example, a major businessman of Mongolia, director of the Gatsuurt company L. Chinbat, expressed dissatisfaction with the mayor’s words. He wrote on his Twitter:
“Is Bat-Ul a mental patient or something? These are the words of a man who has never worked. In our country, which is 50 years behind in development, work will definitely not be unnecessary for anyone - everyone who can should work. And it doesn’t matter who he is, a soldier or not. We must mobilize all the forces of the country. People who give money to foreigners and speculate are doing good only for themselves.”
It is obvious that the businessman clearly supports the railway troops project.
And about the positive
Now we will simply go through those points that reveal his personality from a new side. And, perhaps, they gradually tell you what is the reason for Mr. Battulga’s great success.
1. VGH deputy, candidate for President of Mongolia, Mr. Khaltmaagiin Battulga was born on March 3, 1963 in Ulaanbaatar. His first wife, Ts. Enkhtuyaa, is the director of the Nudelchin company. The second, current, wife is Russian. Her name is Angelica Davain. Apparently, Mr. Battulga is protecting her from the “evil eye,” because her photos practically never appear in the press. They only say that Angelica gave him twins.
2. His father is a native of Bayantsagaan soum of Bayankhongor aimag, and his mother is from Galuut somon of the same aimag. But his parents had long ago become residents of the capital. Battulga also has a younger brother and an older sister.
3. He studied at secondary school No. 34 in Ulaanbaatar. After graduation, he entered the School of Fine Arts. There he studied "monumental art". Since 1982, Battulga began working in the Association of Artists.
4. When he was studying at the school of fine arts, he once sold his painting to tourists near the Bayangol hotel, then he was just studying English language. Now the Bayangol Hotel is owned by Battulga.
5. Another of his crafts was martial arts. When he became the world champion in sambo, he was awarded an apartment in Ulaanbaatar. Battulga participated in the World Championship three times and won a full set of medals - gold, silver and bronze.
6. Finally, in 1989, he took 1st place at the World Sambo Cup and received a 4-room apartment, which, by his own admission, he had been waiting for so long.
7. His activities in sports were highly appreciated by the state and he was awarded the title of Honored Athlete of Mongolia. In September 2006, he became president of the Mongolian Judo Association. Since then, at his own expense, he has supported Mongolian judo in every possible way and donated more than one billion tugriks for the development of this sport.
8. He is one of Mongolia's billionaires.
9. Battulga started his small business in 1990. At that time, fabrics produced in Mongolia were very cheap. And Battulga sewed children's clothes. I sold it in Hungary, and then in Singapore. From there he brought several video cameras to Mongolia. The fact is that in Singapore a video camera then cost 600 US dollars. And in Mongolia he sold them for $1,200. This is how today's billionaire earned his first serious capital.
10. Battulga was the first in Mongolia to launch the Millionaire lottery. Here again he made a lot of money.
11. When suddenly yellow taxis appeared on the streets of Ulaanbaatar, the first “city taxi” service in Mongolia, Mr. Kh. Battulga was also behind this. Also with his light hand The first yellow mini-supermarkets appeared in Mongolia. During his life, he did a lot of things and undertook to earn money. He is rightly considered a hard worker, and also, when compared with other deputies of the VGH, his business qualities and “openness” are highly valued.
12. He once said that he never drank alcohol in the presence of his father. It turned out that he is generally a non-drinker, like his father and brother
13. There is a whole story about how he took his first step into politics. In 2002, there was a very difficult winter in Bayankhongor aimag. In Mongolia, such winters are called “Dzud”. His parents, natives of Bayankhongor aimak, asked him to help the local shepherds who had lost their livestock as a result of this natural disaster. Then he saw up close the harsh life of the common people. And, according to him, he finally decided to engage in politics.
14. Battulga is known to ARD readers for such projects as the “City of the Future Maidar Eco City” with the tallest statue of the Future Buddha in the center. Of the already implemented projects initiated by the politician, this is the tallest equestrian statue of Genghis Khan in the world.
15. Battulga also tried himself as a TV presenter - in the spring of 2013, the then Minister of Industry and Agriculture of Mongolia agreed to host one episode of the TV project “Mongol Tulgatny 100 Erham” together with the presenter P. Anuzhin.
