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TiToto says of President of Guadeloupean Regional Council Victorin Lurel (Fr): “Suffering from “poll-o-philiac opinionmania,” Lurel often attempts a real personalization of public opinion, a creation of a fictitious political and social image which claims to represent the Guadeloupean people. … He says “Guadeloupeans have said x” everytime he seeks to justify one of his demented actions.”
Collectif Haiti de Provence recently posted (Fr) a slideshow of important Haitian personalities and events of 2006.
Tim Muth has an entertaining link to photos of “the biggest pupusa in the world” from Olocuilta, El Salvador.
A breaking news update from Jim Shultz in Cochabamba: “As I write this the Center of Cochabamba has just become a war zone. Crowds of hundreds of, mostly young men, armed with heavy sticks, are in open conflict on the block below our office and throughout the Center of Cochabamba. Flying rocks fill the air. Several have come flying through our windows.”
Stay in Buenos Aires has a primer on the upcoming Buenos Aires Tango Festival.
Orange Ukraine writes on the situation with land and real estate in Kyiv and the rest of the country.
Foreign Notes reports on the tariffs war fallout in Lugansk and other problems clogging Ukrainian politics.
White Sun of the Desert writes about Yuzhno-Sakhalinks dogs - and posts a photo of a pack of strays living in his backyard.
In a country that has just switched to a different currency - Slovenia - money seems to have become a really relative notion, writes The L Files.
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...