Narratives of the Russian Federation’s Foreign Cultural Policy in Mongolia (2022–2024)

The aim of the study is to systematize institutional practices, narratives, and formats of Russia’s foreign cultural policy in Mongolia during 2022–2024, against the backdrop of increasing importance of the eastern vector of Russian foreign policy and pressure from Western states on both Russia and Mongolian political elites. The methodology combines an event-based approach for ranking types of actions and discourse analysis to identify dominant narratives of cultural policy. The results show that priority narratives include Russian art, the Russian language, and historical memory, while episodic ones encompass holidays and traditions, environmental issues, interfaith dialogue, etc. The novelty lies in empirically grounded identification of the narrative structure of Russia’s foreign cultural policy towards Mongolia. Findings can be applied when designing overseas cultural events and strategies for positioning Russia in bordering countries.