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Due to certain unprofessionalism and corruption in their ranks, traffic police feature prominently in jokes and contemporary urban folklore of the former Soviet states. Below are three actual stories and...
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Alejandra Noemi writes on El Rancahuaso, a citizen journalism site, that autos híbridos, or hybrid cars, have already hit the streets of Chile (ES).
The Golden Road to Samarqand writes that the silence of Kyrgyzstan's president on all the recent troubles in the country hardly inspires confidence.
At the Caribbean Beat Blog, Nicholas Laughlin solicits suggestions for inclusions in a West Indian literary canon.
Nessuna writes that the benefits of getting an American University of Armenia education go far beyond just improving one's English.
MediaCritic links to a “brutal historical account of Guyana”. An excerpt: “The present-day Republic of Guyana is an insignificant remnant of the old British Empire, the only possession Britain ever held on the mainland of South America, uneasily resting between Venezuela and Brazil and adjoining two other fragments of European colonial empires. . . . Guyana has no great economic or strategic value.”
The Limey links to a series of videos featuring humpback whales off Bermuda's south shore.
LEvko of Foreign Notes continues to watch Ukraine's seemingly endless coalition-building endeavor.
Michael of The Glory of Carniola reviews a number of lists featuring Ljubljana, the capital of Slovenia.
As they say here, Morsy is the first presidential candidate ever to run for presidency against his will, and people...
What the f***? A african man again...why people want to deleted on the worldwide Africans or Black mens?!... Really outrageous. France is maybe...
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I'm from Russia, use internet daily, and I didn't know half of these words. The other slang words are not...