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1 February 2006

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Stories from 1 February 2006

The Week That Was - Bolivian Blogs

Written by Eduardo Avila · Latin America

Few knew quite what to expect during President Evo Morales’ first week in office. After the worldwide attention of the inauguration had settled, proposed policy decisions would draw the attention...

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From the African Union Summit to Darfur—Musings about Sudan

Written by Chippla Vandu · Sub-Saharan Africa

The 6th African Union (AU) summit took place in the Sudanese capital of Khartoum from 16-24 January 2004. Key on the agenda was who should succeed the Nigerian president as...

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Laicity and Football deception in the Moroccan Blogs

Written by Farah Kinani · Middle East & North Africa

Last Monday was the first day of the new Hegire year 1427 and the Moroccan Blogsphere wished Muslims all over the world a happy new year (French). Soumiaz author of...

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Updates from 1 February 2006

Kazakhstan

Ben Paarmann explains how Kazakhstan can take advantage of European fears about the reliability of Russia as an energy supplier.

• Nathan Hamm

Turkmenistan

neweurasia discusses reports of panic spreading across Turkmenistan following the announcement of drastic pension and disability cuts.

• Nathan Hamm

Russia

Russian Marketing Blog says that the every kind of juice imaginable is available in Russia, and that juice makers are still coming up with strange combinations for customers.

• Nathan Hamm

Fernando Casale reviews the album (ES), “Eleven Songs Written in the Bathroom” by Argentine singer, Esteban Gómez whose project, Madreocéano (Mother Ocean) has its own weblog and website where the the entire Creative Commons-licensed album is freely available for download. Sebas leaves a comment on Casale's review lamenting the fact that so many Latin American musicians are now singing and composing in English.

• David Sasaki