Global Voices · Citizen media stories from 2006 February 27

27 February 2006

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Stories from 27 February 2006

Afghan Whispers

Written by Fred Petrossian · Eastern & Central Europe

Afghan Reality encourages foreign forces such as Canadian soldiers stay in Afghanistan. The blogger says “Security. Security. Security. This is a persistent call for international assistance from the Afghan government,...

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Iraq in Crisis - The Optimists Strike Back

Written by Salam Adil · Middle East & North Africa

As the crisis in Iraq rumbles on bloggers are divided on the whether there is civil war and how bad things really are. For the sake of balance here is...

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What Salvadoran bloggers are saying - politics and nostalgia

Written by Tim Muth · Latin America

El Salvador is in the midst of a very spirited campaign season leading to the election of mayors and National Assembly deputies on March 12. The campaigning has produced a...

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Voices from Central Asia and the Caucasus

Written by Ben Paarmann · Central Asia & Caucasus

Cows by Lake Issyk Kul in Kyrgyzstan Welcome to the latest roundup from the Central Asian and Caucasian blogosphere brought to you bi-weekly by neweurasia. As usual, we take you...

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Polish Blogosphere Update

Written by Jordan & Maria Seidel · Eastern & Central Europe

Upon news of the arrest of 17 pedophiles in Poland, part of a worldwide Internet child porn sting started in Spain, Peter Gentle of the beatroot ponders whether looking at...

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The week in Kenyan Blogs

Written by Juliana Rotich · Sub-Saharan Africa

Image courtesy of White African This week has Kenyan bloggers writing about very diverse topics, let us start with sports White African reminisces about rugby in Kenyan High schools ,...

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Updates from 27 February 2006

Venezuela

Oil Wars remembers the tragic massacre which took place 17 years ago today when “the government of Carlos Andres Perez sent the army into the streets to put down, with bullets, the huge popular protests against his stringent economic package which involved increasing fuel and transport prices.”

• David Sasaki

Uruguay

SaltShaker weighs in with some hidden World War II history between Uruguay and France and how it contributed to Uruguayan Cognac.

• David Sasaki

Argentina

Fernando Casale has more free tracks for indie music lovers. Check out Calostro from Chile and Argentine, Sebastián Kramer.

• David Sasaki

Mexico

Michelle Dion links to resources in English on the soon-to-be released official report of abuses by the PRI regime in Mexico's Dirty War of the late 60's and 70's. RegioBlogs and Olganza have more information in Spanish.

• David Sasaki

Russia

Snowsquare.com and Two-Zero visit the more remote Moscow neighborhoods - Konkovo and Tyoplyi Stan - and take pictures. Jane Keeler of From Russia With Blog has lots of stories and photos from her sightseeing trip to Moscow, too.

• Veronica Khokhlova

Russia

Snowsquare.com writes about Moscow's central street, Tverskaya: the unique way of lighting it at night, and the final days of Hotel Minsk (22 Tverskaya), built in 1964.

• Veronica Khokhlova

Russia

W. Shedd of The Accidental Russophile writes about Maslyanitsa, a part-pagan, part-Christian holiday, celebrating the arrival of spring and the approach of the pre-Easter fast, and how it is marked in Russia nowadays.

• Veronica Khokhlova

Russia

Marina Litvinovich links (RUS) to photos from Feb. 23 rallies and marches that took place in Moscow: here, here, here, here, here, and here. The majority of the photos are from the rally in front of Russia's Defense Ministry, where people gathered to demand the army's reform and resignation of the defense minister.