ULAANBAATAR (Reuters) - Tens of thousands of Mongolians took to the streets on Thursday to protest against corruption in the top echelons of politics, braving temperatures that dropped below minus 20 degrees Celsius in the capital, Ulaanbaatar.
The protesters - organisers estimated there were 25,000 of them - focussed their anger on Mongolia's parliamentary speaker, Enkhbold Miyegombo, and the two main ruling parties, the Mongolian People's Party and the Democratic Party.
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