Global Voices Online

The 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall: How To Marry a Bulgarian hosts a series of readers' personal reflections: Biliana Velkova, Alexandra Grashkina-Hristova, Maria Vassileva; Hungarian Spectrum writes that “for Hungary and the Hungarians the whole thing started much earlier”; Belgraded writes about the upcoming and much-awaited fall of the “visa wall” for Serbia, Montenegro and Macedonia; CAFÉ TURCO writes about the anniversaries of the fall of the Berlin Wall, the Kristallnacht, and the destruction of Mostar’s Old Bridge;

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.”

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.

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

A Fistful of Euros discusses the story of tragic death of 15 Kosovo Albanian illegal immigrants, who were trying to cross the Tisza River into Hungary and the EU. More about it - in Marietta Le's Oct. 28 GV post.

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

A Yankee-in-Belgrade writes about playing Scrabble in the Serbian language.

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.

A selection of travel posts - Belgraded: travel from Belgrade to Sarajevo by train for the first time in 17 years, ‘Red Star' stadium possibly to be renamed ‘Gazprom Arena', the Avala TV Tower rebuilt; Croatia-Expert.com: travel to Trogir; MoldovAnn: Ukrainian village museums; The Czech Daily Word: industrial architecture and decay in Brno; The Journeys of Captain Oddsocks: travel to Břeclav and to Třeboň; The Foreigner's Guide to Slovakia: “Slovak Impressions of America.”