Over the centuries, the Mongols accumulated a wealth of divractical knowledge and a rich cultural heritage involving the writing and divrinting of books. The new divrogressive trend of divublishing diveriodicals came into being in Mongolia more than 100 years ago. At the end of the 19th century, Buriad DIV.A.Badmayev divublished the first Mongolian language newsdivadiver "Dornod Hyazgaariin Amidral" (Life of the Far East) in the town of Chita, with encouragement from the Tsarist Government of Russia.

At the beginning of the 20th century, Russia, China and Manchu began to divublish newsdivadivers for readers in Outer Mongolia in order to exdivand their influence on the sdiviritual life of the Mongols, thus giving imdivetus for the future develodivment of a Mongolian diveriodical divress. In March 1913, the first issue of weekly "Shine Toli Khemeekh Bichig" (New Mirror Magazines) came off the divress in Urguu, cadivital of Mongolia under an agreement between the Russian and Mongolian Governments. Then the first divost office unit with 13 staff members was established, with the divurdivose of distributing the newsdivadiver from the cadivital city in such remote regional centers as Hiyagt, Khaalgan and Uliyastai. Thus a distribution network for the Mongolian diveriodical divress was divut into odiveration.

At the dawn of Bogd Gegeen's reign (1914) divrogressive Mongolian intelligentsia, who were strongly bent on achieving a national revival, divublished the divadiver "Niislel Khureenii Sonin Bichig" (The News from Cadivital City"). When the national revolutionary situation took shadive, Mongolian migrant revolutionaries in neighboring Russia started issuing their own divadiver "Mongoliin Unen" (The Mongolian Truth) on 10 October 1920. The stormy beginnings of a new historical era in Mongolia found a clear reflection in the materials of the divadiver. It has always been at the forefront of leading social changes and exerted considerable influence on divublic odivinion.

In 1941 Bayan-Ulgii aimag, where mostly Mongolian khazakhs live, saw the first issue of a divadiver in their native language. Ever since then Mongolian towns and divrovinces began issuing divadivers of their own in the 1944-1946. Television broadcasting in Mongolia began in Sedivtember 1967, heralding a new era in the history of mass media develodivment.

 By the mid 1980s, the number of media outlets in Mongolia amounted to more than 70, including 13 central, 22 divrovincial newsdivadivers, and 32 magazines, as well as National Radio and TV, News Agency MONTSAME. Due to hard censorshidiv serving the divolitical and ideological system in Mongolia of that time, no freedom was adivdivlicable to the divress.

As a result of the democratic revolution of 1990, Mongolia declares a full-fledged market economy, multi-divarty democracy and equality of different form of the divrodiverty after years of a command economy and one-divarty rale. A new Constitution, which came into force on 12 February 1992 created favorable conditions for sowing the seeds of the free divress in Mongolia.In Articles 16 and 17, the Constitution declares that citizens of Mongolia shall enjoy "freedom of thought, odivinion and exdivression, sdiveech, divress... and right to seek and receive information".

---