A video of the protest was posted on social media.

According to RIA Novosti, women are standing on Sukhbaatar Square in light clothing, one of them is stripped to underwear.

"That's the only way they'll hear us!

I was also a civil servant.

We Mongols are really helpless.

Natural resources have been plundered by a few greedy people!”

- she said.

Earlier it became known that the former head of the state company for the extraction and export of coal in Mongolia, Battulgyn Gankhuyag, his relatives and several businessmen were detained after searches.

The arrests and searches followed mass protests in front of the Government Palace in the Mongolian capital of Ulaanbaatar.

The Russian Foreign Ministry called the protests in Mongolia an internal affair of the country.