Global Voices Online

Guido Verboom covers a war of words on Wikipedia over entries for Mongolian politicians.

Tim Newman of White Sun of the Desert reports that Russia is planning to provide financial aid to Hamas: “For the last few years, much of Russia’s foreign policy has been a two step process: 1) See what the US is doing. 2) Do the opposite.”

Snowsquare.com takes a look at Moscow's VIP market. Also noted is a special Orthodox Easter feature for cell phones.

Sean Guillory writes about Komsomol and its influence on today's political youth movements in Russia.

Megan Case takes a picture of a sexist beer ad in a St. Petersburg subway train - and gets fined for doing it. Konstantin Dlutskiy of Russian Marketing Blog comments on this ad.

Sergey Belyakov of Travel Russia! (formerly known as RUBLog) posts a note on the Russian LiveJournal world: ZheZhe, as it is known in Russian, is currently 274,763 users strong.

Petro Rondiak of Petro's Jotter writes about how he almost ended up bribing a traffic policeman during a family trip from Kyiv to Odesa.

Stefan of Dykun quotes a message from Oksana Kolodnytska, a 23-year-old Ukrainian school teacher from Pidhajtsi, on why Yulia Tymoshenko's Bloc has gotten so many votes in the March 26 parliamentary election.

LEvko of Foreign Notes comments on political battles in Ukraine and in its capital, Kyiv.