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Ghana: Ghana highlights part I

Ndesanjo Macha — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 19:45:14 +0000

Gayle's first part of Ghana highlights: In Ghana, every region has something to offer. Culture, history, beaches, flora and fauna, you can sample it all over the country, from the tropical jungles of the south to the savannah plains of the north. If you’re a beach or history lover, you’ll enjoy this tour along the coast.

India: Old Time Photos

Rezwan — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 13:24:13 +0000

Piyal Kundu from Naihati, West Bengal, India posts some vintage Indian photos in his blog “Old Indian Photos” and some of them date back to the 1850s.

Serbia: Sinisa Boljanovic Wins Climate Change Blogging Contest

Veronica Khokhlova — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 01:10:54 +0000

Sinisa Boljanovic, a GV author and Lingua Serbian editor, became one of the winners of Round 1 of TH!NK2: CLIMATE CHANGE blogging contest; here's Sinisa's winning entry: Black Point of the Danube Basin.

Hungary: Genetic Research on the Origin of Hungarians

Veronica Khokhlova — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 00:57:52 +0000

Hungarian Spectrum writes about genetic research on the origin of the Hungarian people.

Ukraine: New Documentary on Holodomor

Veronica Khokhlova — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 23:46:30 +0000

Nash Holos writes about Yury Luhovy's new documentary on the Ukrainian famine of 1932-33.

CEE: “20 Years After the Fall of the Berlin Wall” - a Poll

Veronica Khokhlova — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 23:42:17 +0000

Foreign Policy Association's Russia blog writes about the results of a Pew Research Center's poll on poverty, wealth and attitudes in Central and Eastern Europe “20 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall.”

Barbados: Whipping Boy

Janine Mendes-Franco — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 16:21:02 +0000

“We seem determined to deny our history, rather than learn from it. Why else would we, who have been so wounded by the whip, venerate it?” B.C. Pires puts in his two cents' worth on the recent flogging of schoolchildren in Barbados.

Bosnia & Herzegovina: Banja Luka

Veronica Khokhlova — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 09:10:25 +0000

Bosnia Blog writes about travel to Banja Luka.

The Balkans: Danilo Kiš

Veronica Khokhlova — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 01:51:27 +0000

Belatedly, a tribute to Yugoslav writer Danilo Kiš (1935-1989) - at Balkans via Bohemia.

Russia: Potential for Rebellion in Toliatti

Veronica Khokhlova — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 01:34:07 +0000

Window on Eurasia reports that “Russian government plans to lay off 50,000 autoworkers in Toliatti […] have sparked rumors that Moscow plans to introduce interior ministry troops to keep order and that at least some of the workers plan to use arms to defend their jobs.”

Russia: The Cossack Factor

Veronica Khokhlova — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 01:30:28 +0000

Window on Eurasia writes that “articles in the Russian blogosphere suggest both that an increasing number of Cossacks view themselves as victims and are prepared to act as an independent force and that the Russian government is increasingly concerned about that possibility, something that could undermine Moscow’s control of the North Caucasus and other parts of the Russian periphery.”

Europe: The Berlin Wall

Veronica Khokhlova — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 01:26:08 +0000

Leopolis celebrates the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall.

U.S.: Blogger Invited to Reception at Czech Embassy

Veronica Khokhlova — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 01:12:11 +0000

Czechmatediary has been invited to a reception with Vaclav Klaus, the president of the Czech Republic, at the Czech Embassy in Washington, D.C.: “The reception is held in honor of not only the Czech president himself but also because of the celebration of the National Czech Day as well as the 20th Anniversary of the Velvet Revolution. […] I will be taking my laptop with me and updating you frequently on this exciting journey.”

Russia: 1999 Chechen Diary, Parts 2 & 3

Veronica Khokhlova — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 00:37:48 +0000

Part 2 and Part 3 of the translation of Polina Zherebtsova’s 1999 Chechen Diary - at Sundry Translations and Other Tangentialia (links to intro, Part 1 and the Russian-language original are here).

The Balkans: The Past, the Present, and the Future

Veronica Khokhlova — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 00:29:36 +0000

Thoughts on Radovan Karadzic's trial and Biljana Plavsic's release from prison - in a post titled “Bosnia now: the past and the future facing each other” at CAFÉ TURCO. Thoughts on “history that offends people” - at Balkan Anarchist.