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February 10th, 2007
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Russia: Racist Attack on Journalist/Blogger
Channel One footage of the Feb. 10 news piece (RUS) on the subway attack on Aidar Buribayev, a reporter for Newsweek's Russian-language edition.
Four young men attacked Aidar Buribayev - LJ user aidar_b2, a 28-year-old reporter for Newsweek's Russian-language edition - on a Moscow subway train just after midnight Saturday. Buribayev is an ethnic Kazakh, who was born and raised in Moscow; his non-Slavic appearance was most likely the reason he got assaulted. Here's his account (RUS) of what happened:
So.
1. I'm in one piece. Injuries: left eye is swollen, nose is broken but no bone displacement, and a few insignificant scratches.
2. There were four attackers, young people. No, they weren't wearing any uniform. Just the black jackets, jeans and boots. Short hair, bum-looking, high school dropout type […]. I stood next to a non-working door at the car's end. A guy came up to me, he was hiding his face behind a scarf. He looked me over with disgust and then signalled to the company that stood at the other end of the car that I was on my own (he raised his index finger).
Two more guys approached. A small man standing near me understood what was going on and quickly vanished. The biggest guy asked: “What are you doing here? Russia is for the Russians, don't you know that?” I told him he was wrong. The big guy hit me in the face. I hit him back, and on it went…
A Week Goes by in Kuwait
Kuwait enjoyed nice weather this week. A lot of people grasped the opportunity and went out camping in the desert.
Engineeroo was no different. He joined the scores of people who erected tents and took with them their food and drinks to enjoy the beginning of spring. Not only this but he also captured a rainbow !
Yesterday when I was in our camp(المخيم) after the lovely rain … rainbow was shown a full half circle…. actually, it was two of them and I captured both…. :) here is one of them and you can See my shadow … ;)
Ugandan Blogosphere: Juba Peace Talks and Best of Blogs
If the activity in January and early February is a sign of things to come, 2007 promises to be a banner year for relevancy, engagement and quality of content in the Ugandan blogosphere.
The Juba Peace Talks between the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) and the Government of Uganda, whose wheels had been humming energetically as recently as October, have ground to a halt, with reports early this week of rebel movement towards the Central African Republic (CAR). However, Uganda-CAN, a leading policy advocacy organization has helped fill the void by creating an 8-part interactive blog series called ‘What's At Stake in the Juba Peace Talks.' Two highlights:
On Implementing Sudan's Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA):
The LRA rebels’ presence in southern Sudan is further weakening the CPA. They continue to destabilize the region, making it more difficult for the GOSS to rebuild institutions and communities. The NCP may also try to maintain its monopoly on political power and access to oil revenues by renewing its support for the LRA in an attempt to destabilize the south and prevent its secession. However, success in the Juba peace talks would help consolidate the gains towards peace and democracy in South Sudan initiated by the CPA over the past two years, which in turn are crucial to the hopes for the stabilization of Darfur.
The proliferation of arms in the region from conflicts in northern Uganda, southern Sudan, and Somalia has also fueled Karamajong cattle raids in the neighboring Iteso and Acholi regions of Uganda, undermining the Juba peace talks by making northern Uganda less secure and safe for IDPs to begin returning home. If the Juba peace talks succeed in bringing stability to northern Uganda despite this, the Ugandan government might be encouraged to seek a peaceful solution to the violence in Karamoja. However, a failure of the parties to the Juba talks to come to an agreement would greatly hamper efforts to address the arms proliferation, political tensions and humanitarian crisis in Karamoja.
Links for Sat, 2007-02
View from Iran writes I watched Khameini speak at the induction of new police officers (on television, not live). Thousands of blue-hatted men lifted their fists in the air and shouted “Down with America” like a bunch of automatons. Why do regimes always choose to portray themselves in the most despicable manner? Why do they goose step and raise their fists in the air? Why do they choose to set themselves against an enemy rather than for themselves?
Digital Kelachinkov says it seems Ahmadinejad is the only one,except a few of his friends,who does not worry about a USA military intervention in Iran.The blogger says besides Ahmadinejad's belief in divine interventions, maybe he simply thinks that nothing will be happened and USA and Iran will make a compromise [Fa].
Thanks to Shirin Ahmadnia's [Fa] blog I discovered Alriza Dezfoolian‘s art works in Australia.
“You like the hot new soca music you hear on the radio but where can you purchase it before Carnival?” asks the Caribbean Beat blog. The answer is “downtown” — or used to be, before the soca music download site Trinihits.com came on the scene.
The Evil Lankan does a tongue-in-cheek post about internet critics who obsess over grammar, spelling and punctuation. “All this harassment from us other perfect blogger brother and sister friends (Perfectly anonymous as well) reminded me of several incidents last year.”
United We Blog! has an update on the politics and turmoil in Nepal. Covering Maoists, the Terai region and the Army. “Suddenly, it appears, things are now returning to normalcy in Nepal. But everything is not rosy.”
Metroblogging Islamabad on a seminar on Ulema's views on family planning. “The research showed that many Ulema did not support family planning as it meant to them limiting the number of children one can have, which is not permissible in Islam. However, majority of them believed that Islam permits birth spacing. It was observed that high the level of formal education among Ulema, the greater was the perception that Islam approved family planning”
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