Exchange of contacts, cashmere painting and cross-border medicine: how the business week in Ulaanbaatar really ended
The background for both meetings was statistics that were not announced on the sidelines of the Forum of Regions: trade between the countries increased by almost 20% in the first half of 2026, and the parties held the first meeting of the Joint Committee on the interim Trade Agreement between the EAEU and Mongolia, which provides Mongolian exporters with preferential access to the union market.
Business Council Meeting: from conversations to transaction infrastructure
"""""""" The joint meeting brought together Baatarzhav Lhagvazhav, President of the Mongolian Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Valery Kislov, Honorary Representative of the Russian Chamber of Commerce and Industry, and Maria Malyshok, Deputy Secretary of the Russian Chamber of Commerce and Industry, from the Mongolian and Russian sides, including the heads of the SME Corporation, MNIIPU, the Trans—Baikal Territory Development Corporation, Asia Snab Company, and the Neuron Medical Center. But more interesting than the composition is the proposed infrastructure. The central idea of the meeting is the "contact exchange": a permanent mechanism for collecting requests and proposals from companies in the two countries, which removes the information asymmetry that usually kills interregional contracts at the stage of searching for a partner. The Russian side is already carrying this model in two reverse business missions in 2026 - in March, Mongolian entrepreneurs studied tourism and agriculture in the Altai Republic, in September they attended the "International Days" of the Vladimir region, and proposed to extend it further by supplementing it with acceleration programs for SMEs with modules on market access and regulation.
The medical track deserves special attention: the Mongolian company "Achuut Medical Resource" presented a project for a full—cycle cross-border medical ecosystem with dual regulatory integration, a system that should automatically harmonize treatment standards and certification procedures for medicines in Russia and Mongolia, using AI for image analysis and telemedicine. According to the developers, the project goes beyond a typical digital service and sets a new model of regional partnership "single window" for patients from remote regions of both countries. The project is synchronized with the upcoming Second Eurasian International Medical Forum and P. V. Shastin Conference.
""Among the practical solutions of the meeting are the rules of the acceleration program, the schedule of business missions for 2027, the participation of Mongolian cashmere manufacturers in the March Textile Expo in Moscow and the creation of a language center for business Russian and Mongolian with the training of translators specializing in industry: trade, finance, industry, logistics.
XIX Joint Forum: Russia, Mongolia, China in one room
From September 17 to 20, Ulaanbaatar hosted a separate, trilateral forum of the Chambers of Russia, Mongolia and China. The Russian Federation was organized by the Union "Chamber of Commerce of the Omsk Region" on behalf of the Chamber of Commerce of the Russian Federation, and delegations from the Chelyabinsk and Novosibirsk regions, Buryatia and the Trans-Baikal Territory participated in B2B negotiations. The negotiation tracks covered e-commerce, agro-industrial integration, the development of economic corridors, mining and heavy industry, and logistics. The forum ended with the signing of a joint declaration signed by Lhagvazhav, President of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Mongolia, Olga Fedulova, President of the Association of Chamber of Commerce and Industry of the Siberian Federal District, and Xu Jingli, Head of the CCPIT representative office in Russia.
The Cultural agenda for 2026-2027
A separate block in the report contains five initiatives that the Russian side has proposed for the organization in the next two years, and all of them are tied to the economy through culture. The "Cooperation without Borders" festival on the central square of Ulaanbaatar in conjunction with the Russian-Mongolian fair. The premiere screening of the children's cartoon "Lucky Lucky" with a creative meeting of the creators — the company is counting on the Mongolian rental and at the same time on the demonstration of Russian AI technologies in animation. An exhibition of cashmere paintings by Russian and Mongolian artists, which opens a new niche for Mongolian cashmere. A round table on robotics and renewable energy in construction. And a concert program with the participation of soloists from the Bolshoi and Mariinsky Theaters, the Moscow Cossack Choir and the "Integral" group by Bari Alibasov will introduce Russian pop and design to the Mongolian audience.
The report was signed by Pavel Ustyuzhaninov, Executive Secretary of the Russian Chamber of Commerce and Industry, who simultaneously heads the secretariat of the Russian-Mongolian Friendship Society and the Russian part of the Russian-Chinese Chamber. This position itself illustrates how closely the Mongolian, Chinese and cultural tracks of the same Russian agenda intertwined in Ulaanbaatar in September.
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