Global Voices Online

Call that fusion or copying, A Bengali in T.O. informs that the tune of a popular Bangla classic song (written by Radha Romon Dutta in the year 1870!) was used by Liviu Mititelu for a Romanian song.

At Th!nk About It, a climate change blogging competition, Adela reports on the construction of a highway in Romania, which will go through a national park, endangering “the only virgin forest on our good old continent”, and also writes about the Recicleta project in Bucharest, and one Romanian man's roof garden; Sinisa Boljanovic writes on what a difference it would make if Serbia switched from 100W light bulbs to “environmental friendly bulbs of 20W”; Eamonn Fitzgerald posts a note on “a free ride Russia gets from environmentalists.”

Information Policy links to a BusinessWeek/TOL article on social networks and the media in Central and Eastern Europe.

At Th!nk About It - here and here - Adela writes about Critical Mass in Romania.

At Th!nk About It, Adela writes about International Black Sea Action Day.

Dumping Grounds for People is a blog devoted to the results “of a four-months long journalistic investigation, conducted mostly undercover in ten institutions for adults with intellectual disabilities or mental illnesses in Bulgaria, Romania and Serbia.” A Flickr photo set, by Yana Buhrer Tavanier, is here, along with this note: “Bulgaria and Romania, both EU members since 2007, and Serbia, which seeks the same status, have a grim track record when it comes to institutional care. This investigation suggests that they are still failing to meet international standards.”

Hungarian Spectrum writes about “a recurrent theme in Hungarian politics”: dual citizenship.

Csíkszereda Musings writes about “5 places that tourists to Romania often visit but shouldn't really bother with.”

Csíkszereda Musings writes about some of Romania's tourist attractions.