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Luke Distelhorst reports that Mongolia, a country without a single inch of ocean coastline, has come out as a supporter of whaling. Like many other countries with a newfound support for whaling, Mongolia receives aid from Japan.
Raffi, whose work has been victim to piracy, writes about Armenia's record industry.
James summarizes a Russian language post on the final humanitarian aid project of the European Comission in Tajikistan.
CXW says that blogging is increasingly popular in Kyrgyzstan and profiles the blog of the EKOIS project which provides loads of information on environmental issues in Kyrgyzstan.
Ani reports on the two celebrations of World No-Smoking Day in Armenia this year and discusses smoking in the country.
Bob Glass writes that unions in Costa Rica will take to the streets today, one day earlier than planned.
Both Sean and The Limey post photos sent in by readers of a cruise ship that ran aground off the coast of Bermuda. Christian Dunleavy suggests jokingly that the ship was piloted by Lt. Col. David Burch, and run aground in a effort to distract the public from a news story about Burch's being slammed by the Broadcasting Commission for an allegedly racist comment he made on radio.
Luís Afonso Assumpção and Justin Delacour have two very different views of Brazil's Landless Workers' Movement.
Larry Smith compares the immigration policies of the US and the Bahamas: “Although the Bush Administration can be blamed for many things, the immigration plan it rolled out two and a half years ago was a far-reaching reform that should become a model for our own efforts to deal with illegal Haitian immigration.”
A West Indian sports commentator's mimicry of an Indian cricket fan's commentary in Hindi is “not cricket”, says Barbadian blogger Titilayo.
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...