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A WWII veteran in Kyiv, Ukraine - by Veronica Khokhlova On May 9, former Soviet states marked the 61st anniversary of the defeat of Nazi Germany in WWII. Veterans and...
We begin this roundup with a very cute video by the GV Swahili bridge-blogger Ndesanjo, he shares this video in his post on video blogging. It is of a young...
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Nessuna reports on a lecture on democracy and the future of the South Caucasus.
Zarchka writes about all the tasks involved with uborka, Armenian spring cleaning, and all the “oofs” that come with it.
Luke Distelhorst writes about “tuts,” Mongolian kiosks, weighing their positives and negatives.
According to Yadashthaye Adabi, Farhad Darya, a famous Afghan singer, performed among street kids to attract government's attention to children's misery in Afghanistan (Persian).
Ed of Balkan Baby is happy to be back in Moldova: he has escaped “the breakaway nightmare republic of Transdnistria.”
Following Dick Cheney's recent speech in Vilnius, TOL's Belarus Blog writes that “the U.S. and Western Europe are becoming more and more aware of Belarusan situation.”
Amid ethnic and racial tensions, Moscow experiences something different for a change: a group of “Africans from over twenty countries (Congo and Ethiopia included), Iranians, and Iraqis [were] all raking leaves as part of a subbotnik organized by Opora, a Moscow NGO run by Ethiopian Dr. Gezahgn Wordofa. This was Opora's way of saying thanks to Moscow for letting this city be home for them,” reports Raffi Aftandelian of maaskva: nashimi glazami.
Jane Keeler of From Russia With Blog begins a series of posts about her trip to Siberia and back - Siberian Adventure Part 1: The Trans-Siberian Railroad.
Russia Blog posts Victory Day stills from one of Russia's state-controlled TV channels, RTR.
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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In my opinion, the only slang from this list which is falling out of vogue is the nickname of Medvedev...
I'm from Russia, use internet daily, and I didn't know half of these words. The other slang words are not...