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Visiting a woman dying of cancer, Guyana-Gyal learns a few lessons about life and love.
“I have to admit that I find myself wondering what took them so long,” says Karen Walrond, discussing the US government's designation of June 2006 as Caribbean Heritage Month.
Amerindian issues blog The CAC Review publishes a press release announcing that the Garifuna American Heritage Foundation United will be holding a protest against the World Premiere of Disney film “Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest” on Saturday 24 June in Anaheim, California.
Medicina Cubana reproduces a news agency article stating that foreign medical students at the Morón School of Medical Science have had no internet access for the past several weeks. The article also notes that “in general, Cubans are not allowed access to the Internet.”
Living Guyana links to a music video showing scenes of the Guyanese landscape, both rural and urban.
Citing a Wired article about Rupert Murdoch and Barbados' status as one of the Caribbean territories with the highest internet penetration, Barbados Free Press predicts that “the internet, citizen journalism, online networking and the Barbados Free Press” will play a key role in the country's upcoming general election.
Viktor of Belgrade Blog writes about Serbia's image abroad. He also links to the text on a concert by a “Serbian war-criminal,” written by the Serbian writer Jasmina Tesanovic for BoingBoing: “There is no excuse for going to Ceca's concert (”Ideally Bad”) but I found one: I took a foreigner with me. […] The most famous turbo folk star in the region, Ceca is an eighteen-year veteran, highly popular even in the neighboring areas where her husband and his paramilitary troops looted and killed her listeners.”
Andrei Khrapavitski writes about the third anniversary of writer Vasil Bykau's death: “The famous writer was nominated for the Nobel Prize in literature, was one of the founders of the Belarusian Popular Front, and is one of the most respected Belarusian authors, a moral authority revered by both seniors and youngsters. […] Bykau has been hated by the regime for his unequivocal opposition to the current government. Lukashenko did not show up at his burial but stated in an interview that he respected Bykau and grew up on his poetry. Little did he know – Bykau had not written poems. Embarrassing isn’t it?”
Dan McMinn of Orange Ukraine writes about Ukraine's World Cup victory over Saudi Arabia - and a no less important event: the “re-formation” of the “orange coalition.”
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...