On March 23, 2009 the GIA Special Archives delegation led by its director, Mrs. D.Budjav, visited the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) headquarters at Lubyanka, Moscow and held bilateral talks with Mr. V.S.Khristofonov, director of the FSB Archives and Registration Department and staff members of the FSB Archives.

The two sides agreed to enhance the bilateral cooperation between the two archives.

GIA and FSB delegations exchanged their positions regarding expediting the process of providing access to the files on Mongolian citizens purged in the USSR in the 1930-40s. The Russian side agreed to offer such assistance and to allow their Mongolian counterparts to acquire copies of the files.

Since the 1990s copies of the files on 54 Mongolian citizens who fell victim to political terror in the USSR were acquired and brought to Mongolia. For the remaining, the two sides have come to a mutual agreement on the following: The GIA Special Archives will identify the names of all Mongolian citizens purged in the USSR and provide this list to the FSB Archives; the Mongolian side will also draft a proposal to amend the 1992 GIA-FSB Agreement on Exonerating the Victims of Political Purges; the FSB will provide the Mongolian side with the files on 6-10 individuals.