<!-- wp:html --><p>Tsakhia Elbegdorg/X</p>
<p>The former president of <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/keyword/mongolia">Mongolia</a> has thrown shade at <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/keyword/vladimir-putin">Vladimir Putin’s</a> <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/tucker-carlson-emerges-from-interview-convinced-of-putins-sincerity">much-ridiculed claim in an interview</a> with <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/keyword/tucker-carlson">Tucker Carlson</a> that<a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/keyword/ukraine"> Ukraine</a> has always been a part of the <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/keyword/russia">Russian</a> empire.</p>
<p>Present-day Mongolia was itself under the Russian yoke for much of the 20th century as a communist satellite controlled by the Soviet Union.</p>
<p>But well before then, as former President Tsakhia Elbegdorj pointed out on X, the Mongols ruled over history's largest contiguous land empire—including modern-day Russia.</p>
<p><a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/our-empire-was-bigger-than-yours-mongol-leader-taunts-vladimir-putin">Read more at The Daily Beast.</a></p><!-- /wp:html -->
Present-day Mongolia was itself under the Russian yoke for much of the 20th century as a communist satellite controlled by the Soviet Union.
But well before then, as former President Tsakhia Elbegdorj pointed out on X, the Mongols ruled over history’s largest contiguous land empire—including modern-day Russia.
