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A Mongolian child in a traditional costume arrives at the Naadam Festival in Ulan Bator, Mongolia, July 11, 2012. Andy Wong/AP
Mongolia's honor guards march during a rehearsal for a military parade during the Naadam Festival on the Sukhbaatar Square in Ulan Bator, Mongolia, July 9, 2012. Andy Wong/AP
A Mongolian child plays on faceless Buddha cutouts set up for tourist souvenir pictures at the Choijin Lama Temple Museum in Ulan Bator, Mongolia, July 8, 2012. Andy Wong/AP
Mongolians in traditional costume perform during the Naadam Festival opening ceremony in Ulan Bator, Mongolia, July 11, 2012. Andy Wong/AP
Mongolian children jockeys compete in a horse racing competition during the Naadam Festival in Khui Doloon Khudag on the outskirts of Ulan Bator, Mongolia, July 10, 2012. Andy Wong/AP
A nomad voter arrives at a yurt temporarily serving as a polling station in Hovt, western Mongolia, June 28, 2012. Kyodo News/AP
Mongolia's Olympic freestyle wrestler Mandakhnaran Ganzorig warms up with a partner at a wrestling gym in Ulan Bator, October 27, 2011. Ganzorig trains alongside children playing basketball in an old, tired gym with paint peeling from the walls. Kieran Doherty/Reuters
Members of a herder family look out from their tent in Gachuurt, east of Ulan Bator, Mongolia, on June 27, 2004. About half the 2.7 million people in Mongolia are nomadic, traveling with livestock over the vast meadows that cover nearly four-fifths of the country. Guang Niu/Reuters
Houses and shops can be seen in a small town located on grasslands southwest of Ulan Bator, Mongolia, April 4, 2012. David Gray/Reuters
Tourists take a break as they are seen through traditional Tibetan prayer flags at the Dazhao Temple in Hohhot, north China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, April 3, 2012. Zhang Fan/Xinhua/AP
Children play near a statue of Damdin Sukhbaatar, leader of Mongolia's 1921 revolution at Sukhbaatar Square in Ulan Bator, Mongolia, July 2, 2011. Andy Wong/AP
Horses graze on grasslands located southwest of Ulan Bator, Mongolia, April 4, 2012. David Gray/Reuters
Dead trees lie in the desert in Ejina, in north China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, Oct. 6, 2004. Green areas in Ejina have shrunk by 54 percent in the past 30 years due to overgrazing. AP
A Buddhist pagoda is seen in a pasture in Erdenet, northwest of the Mongolian capital city of Ulan Bator, on July 2, 2004. Guang Niu/Reuters
A village is seen at the base of hills located on the outskirts of Ulan Bator, Mongolia, April 3, 2012. David Gray/Reuters
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