Timbo of The Hungary Years posts pictures of how Budapest is preparing for the flood. Pestiside.hu writes about disaster tourism and media attention: “The English-speaker of unidentified origin […] speculated that the Danube would have to rise another meter for the story to be big enough for the BBC.”
A new law “On Ensuring Access to Information about Activities of Government Bodies and Municipal Authorities” [RUS] will require, among other things, creating public Internet terminals all around Russia. But netizens question [RUS] the feasibility of the law.
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