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30 June 2006

Daily archive · 7 posts

Stories from 30 June 2006

Ukraine: World Cup Wishful Thinking

Written by Veronica Khokhlova · Eastern & Central Europe

“We've got three victories! and there are three more left… Go, Ukraine!” - by LJ user lokizzz A popular joke about Ukraine's spectacular - and totally unforeseen - World Cup...

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Immigration, Exile and Motherland!

Written by Fred Petrossian · Middle East & North Africa

Since the 1979 revolution millions of Iranian for various reasons have left Iran and started a new life somewhere else on this planet. Several university educated bloggers share their reasons...

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Arabisc: Arabic Bloggers Ken, War and Women Rights

Written by Haitham Sabbah · Middle East & North Africa

Summer holidays, women rights, war in Iraq and war in Palestine. These are some of the permanent scene in the Arabic language blogsphere these days. Here is some of what...

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Landing at the Iraqi Blogodrome

Written by Salam Adil · Middle East & North Africa

Its been a fascinating week - with so much to read I don't know where to begin. So here is my best effort. Read how the a mainstream media company...

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Plants & Hippos

Written by Sokari Ekine · Sub-Saharan Africa

Some hippos are beautiful And plants are weird! They grow out of hippos bellies! By kikuyumoja on maisha

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Rapping in USA - First impressions

Written by Sokari Ekine · Sub-Saharan Africa

K'Naan: Rapping about war He describes his first impression of America as “strange”, recalling the time his family first landed in New York. “I remember asking my father, 'so this...

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Voices from Central Asia and the Caucasus

Written by Ben Paarmann · Central Asia & Caucasus

Standing at the edge of the abyss close to Kyrgyzstan's Pik Lenin, let's not waste any time to present you the highlights from two weeks of online conversation from Central...

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Updates from 30 June 2006

Eric Fruteau, a member of the General Council of St-Andre, a town in La Reunion, complains (Fr) about the lack of transparency and accountability in the subsidies budget distributed by the town to local associations: “It is abnormal that 5 (…) associations (…) receive 35% of (…) the budget. (…) Especially when there exist 150 associations in Saint-Andre potentially eligible for the subsidies!”

• Alice Backer

Updates

Puerto Rican blogger Eugenio Martínez Rodríguez contemplates (ES) the potential influence of the Wikipedia on the Spanish language.

• Georgia Popplewell

Jamaica

Francis Wade examines the feelings invoked by the sight of bra-less women in Jamaica and tries to figure out the rationale behind the eschweing of foundation garments.

• Georgia Popplewell

Kenya

Says Senegalese blogger Seckasysteme (Fr): “African football is not up to par and its presence in the World Cup is mostly symbolic. Too bad that the numerous individual African talents could not orchestrate a comeback. (…) Why couldn't such talented African football players achieve the same performance in their national teams as they did in their respective clubs?”

• Alice Backer

Jamaica

Jamaican Francis Wade addresses the “remarkable inner journey” one embarks upon on returning to one's homeland, and discusses some of the tools that have helped him along the way.

• Georgia Popplewell

Antigua and Barbuda

Simone Champagnie announces the inaugural Caribbean Literary Festival, set to take place in Antigua in November 2006.

• Georgia Popplewell

Aruba

“Unless there is a drastic, drastic change in Aruba's economy and politics, we are simply not ready to go about it our own,” writes ArubaGirl, in a post prompted by a Bermudian blogger's musings on the subject of independence.

• Georgia Popplewell

Togo

France-based Togolese bloggerKangni Alem writes (Fr): “Even though modesty is not Brazilian singer Caetano Veloso's forte, he has great talent as an agitator. He also exhibits phenomenal memory in the intellectual autobiography that was prompted by the New York Times to recount the birth of the artistic and musical movement of tropicalismo, the hybrid and revolutionary pop to which his and (…) Gilberto Gil's names remain attached.”

• Alice Backer

Russia

Konstantin Dlutskiy of Russian Marketing Blog writes about the cartoon character Cheburashka, its creator Eduard Uspenskiy and a new finding that claims that Cheburashka “actually did exist in reality.”

• Veronica Khokhlova

Russia

Sean Guillory discusses (and recommends) an article by Anne Neistat, a researcher for Human Rights Watch, on her recent trip to Chechnya's capital Grozny.

• Veronica Khokhlova