Global Voices · Citizen media stories from 2006 April 07

7 April 2006

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Stories from 7 April 2006

Voices from Central Asia and the Caucasus

Written by Ben Paarmann · Central Asia & Caucasus

(c) Christopher Herwig - Impressions from Turkmenistan - reproduced with permission Welcome to the latest roundup of the Central Asian and Caucasian blogosphere, brought to you bi-weekly by neweurasia. As...

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Protests Against Violence in Venezuela

Written by David Sasaki · Latin America

Today marks the third straight day that Venezuelans have taken to the streets to protest the murders of three, young Canadian-Venezuelan brothers and their chauffeur who were kidnapped on February...

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Belarus: Flash-Mobbing in Minsk

Written by Veronica Khokhlova · Eastern & Central Europe

White Boats - by Andrei Hrachou On April 4, a small group of young people gathered at the Svisloch River embankment in Minsk, folded origami paper boats, let them out...

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Pulse of the Saudi Blogosphere

Written by Ahmed Al-Omran · Middle East & North Africa

It's another eventful week in the Saudi blogosphere, so let's get started with our weekly roundup… Providing a proper work environment for Saudi women was one of the major goals...

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China: Great firewall undermined

Written by John Kennedy · East Asia

The end to China's Cultural Revolution thirty years ago took with it the need to censor one's self in order to survive. While people in China can now speak freely—a...

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Ethiopia's bloggers tackle bomb blasts and fasting

Written by Andrew Heavens · Ethiopia

Ethiopia's bloggers turned reporters and detectives as a series of mysterious blasts rocked the country's capital Addis Ababa. No one was injured in a small explosion outside a coffee processing...

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Updates from 7 April 2006

Mongolia

Luke Distelhorst has another update on the protests in Mongolia, including the news that some of the protesters are now on hunger strike.

• Nathan Hamm

Colombia

Adam Isacson has an informative ten-point review of the last week in Colombia.

• David Sasaki

Argentina

Expat Argentina cites a new survey which calls President Nestor Kirchner the most popular leader of the Americas. “I think it is safe to say that, barring a very major scandal, Kirchner is going to be re-elected in a landslide.” Bob Row has posted a cartoon, which suggests that Peronism's anti-democratic characteristics led to the 1976 military coup.

• David Sasaki

Ukraine

Oleksandr of Messages From Canada writes on Ukraine's unique position between Russia and the EU: “Located between new EU members with increased production costs and Russia with strong ambitions to expand to new markets, Ukraine could become another economic wonder or business paradise: for EU - to outsource/shift the production facilities to Ukraine with cheaper labor force and less stringent environmental regulations and for Russia - to exploit the favorable relations between Ukraine and EU for its own benefit and use Ukraine as platform for expanding to the West.”

• Veronica Khokhlova