Global Voices Online

Ben Paarmann translates a story from German that tells how Volga Germans who were exiled to Kazakhstan are returning to Germany.

Onnik Krikorian uses the dismissal of a Reuters freelance photographer in Lebanon for manipulating photos as a springboard to discuss photojournalists' ethics and photo manipulation in Armenian media.

Registan.net reports that the daughter of Uzbekistan's president has launched a pop music career and speculates on how it will impact pop music in Uzbekistan.

Manuel Amador is collecting posts (ES) by bloggers who share his conviction that the popular Digg-like aggregation site Menéame (ES) is worthless.

El Blog Diablogico runs into a film crew in Antigua only to discover what will be the first full-length feature to be shot entirely in Guatemala since Green Jade back in 1935

David Sheern writes a letter to Albania, advising it “on how to become a better nation.”

Dan McMinn of Orange Ukraine posts a reaction on Ukraine's new government headed by Victor Yanukovych.

David, who continues to ride his bike along the Venezuelan coast, reminds readers of the deadly floods that claimed an estimated 30,000 victims in 1999.

LEvko of Foreign Notes reports on Yulia Tymoshenko's most recent radio interview, in which she talks, among other things, about Victor Yushchenko's broken promises.