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Wu Wei reads the Crimes/Accidents section of the Sakhalin Times: “All the usual stuff: bribery, corruption, prostitution, drugs, alcoholism, bombs on planes plus a few local issues: ‘Heavy Winds blow buses off highway' […], ‘4-year-old falls into manhole, escapes unharmed' […], ‘Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk resident found guilty of selling worm-infested candy.' Et cetera.

Recent Links also in Eastern & Central Europe

Robert Amsterdam's reports on the pre-trial detention center death of lawyer Sergei Magnitsky last month - here and here; also, a note on the murder of Ivan Khutorskoy, an anti-fascist activist. Oleg Kozlovsky - on a murder committed by drunk police officers in Moscow.

Stories of some Ukrainian street children who have received assistance at ChildRescue's rehabilitation center - at Scenes from the Sidewalk. Stories of some adults who have received humanitarian aid from Hope Center - at Matty's Place.

More on the life of the late Serbian Patriarch Pavle: Again & Again; Anegdote; Belgraded - here and here.