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Wu Wei writes about the process of adopting EU legislation and other developments in Ukraine: “There is a whole change of culture needed in Ukraine. New laws are regarded as little more than bits of paper if they get in the way of businessmen and the government, so they aren't really important.”

Novala, Europa reports: “Austrian Airlines offer a new feature: Air Mail. Sounds kind of natural, but not quite since they offer the service in the lunch/dinner boxes. The lid of the card board box is a postcard. You can tear it off, write it and hand it over to the cabin crew. It will post it for you. The service is for free. I sent mine to Sarajevo.”

Europhobia posts a comparative roundup of Ukrainian politics.

Neretva River writes about anti-Roma bias on Slovenian TV.

Itching for Eestimaa explains why he disagrees with the new Estonian “law banning the use of Nazi and Soviet symbols in public places.”

Itching for Eestimaa writes about Litvinenko's murder, the image of Russia and the meaning of the recent developments for Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania.

Belarusian opposition leader got detained recently, and - surprise, surprise - his detention was justified: he went to Latvia on his son's passport. More on the implications of such absent-mindedness at TOL's Belarus Blog.

“‘Belgazeta', ‘Salidarnasc', BDG ('Belorusskaya Delovaya Gazeta'), naviny.by - all of them publications with critical and objective approach - ran a piece in the past months describing blogs as the new alternative information source, as a major trend in mass media, or speaking about their vulnerability to desinformation.” Read more on what Belarusian mainstream media write about blogs at TOL's Belarus Blog.

Cuckoo's Call on making sanitary napkins for women more affordable. “The key challenge is to design an appropriate product and define the manufacturing technology and business model. I would prefer localised production across the country, with poor women in villages and urban slums securing gainful employment from this.”