Global Voices Online

Profy cites a report by the Russian division of Microsoft, which claims that the company has lost $1 billion to Russian pirates, but has earned the same amount from legal sales.

Evgeny Morozov writes about “social media and social memory” - and a Facebook project involving a 22-year-old Lublin resident posing as a 7-year-old Jewish boy who was killed by the Nazis during WWII. Vaviblog (ENG) is a similar project, which “gives voice” to Russian scientist Nikolai Vavilov: “…if Vavilov were alive today, he’d be popping into the nearest internet café at every opportunity to share his discoveries with the world.” Another similar project is a pseudo-blog of Hava Volovich (RUS), who was born in 1916 in Ukraine, spent nearly 20 years in the Soviet labor camps and exile, and died in 2000.

Lesley from The Mija Chronicles writes in English about her difficulty to learn Spanish in her first 10 months living in Mexico. On parallel, Jennívora questions her yearning of Mexican rituals and festivities after living in Scotland [es] exercising her particular Spanish-pocho [es] writing style.

Robert Amsterdam's reports on the pre-trial detention center death of lawyer Sergei Magnitsky last month - here and here; also, a note on the murder of Ivan Khutorskoy, an anti-fascist activist. Oleg Kozlovsky - on a murder committed by drunk police officers in Moscow.

Engineering students from the Señor de Sipán University at Perú made a quick profit analysis of a raffle organized by the institution [es] after a ticket charge on their college monthly payments without prior notice.

Stories of some Ukrainian street children who have received assistance at ChildRescue's rehabilitation center - at Scenes from the Sidewalk. Stories of some adults who have received humanitarian aid from Hope Center - at Matty's Place.

More on the life of the late Serbian Patriarch Pavle: Again & Again; Anegdote; Belgraded - here and here.

Posts on the first round of the presidential election in Romania last month: Csíkszereda Musings - here, here, and here; and Power&Politics World - here.

Some of the posts that have appeared on Hungarian Spectrum in the past ten days: “corruption and the unfriendly attitude toward foreign investors“; the Hungarian opposition leader's meeting with the Russian PM and the future of the Russian-Hungarian relations - here and here; murder at the University of Pécs - here and here; scandals surrounding the public television company of Hungary, MTV; politics and the H1N1 vaccine.