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16 February 2007

Daily archive · 3 posts

Stories from 16 February 2007

Ukraine: Corruption

Written by Veronica Khokhlova · Eastern & Central Europe

Ukrainian journalist Yuri Zushchik spent this Valentine's Day in the company of his wife and her close friend, Sveta, who is dating a “mid-level employee” of the National Bank of...

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China: Sexologist shuts up

Written by John Kennedy · East Asia

Renowned Chinese sociologist Li Yinhe announced last week that she had been told in no uncertain terms, by people whose identity she declined to identify, to shut up. A longtime...

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Malawian bloggers on nature, health, technology, politics and corruption

Written by Steve Sharra · Sub-Saharan Africa, Western Europe

The newest Malawian kid on the blog is journalist Kondwani Kamiyala, of The Nation newspaper, one of Malawi’s two daily papers. Since launching his blog on January 17, Kondwani has...

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Updates from 16 February 2007

China

Toadi from interlocals.net has translated a recent report from Huaxia Times(zh) on the operation of a blood collection station in Shanxi where blood plamas is extracted from rural pleasants like a factory to supply a pharmaceutical manufacturer in Beijing.

• Oiwan Lam

Russia

Siberian Light runs an interview with La Russophobe.

• Veronica Khokhlova

Estonia

Vilhelm Konnander writes about Tallinn's Bronze Soldier monument: “Why is it that a WW II-monument repeatedly sparks bilateral crises between Estonia and Russia?”

• Veronica Khokhlova

Russia

Sean's Russia Blog publishes a reader's comment on the torturous registration process
in Russia.

• Veronica Khokhlova

Russia

Scraps of Moscow translates a recent Vladimir Vladimirovich™ episode: “Once upon a time, Vladimir Vladimirovich™ Putin was sitting in his Kremlin office and waxing his Presidential skis.”

• Veronica Khokhlova

Russia

Copydude writes on “why Russian women don’t marry Russian men.”

• Veronica Khokhlova

Lithuania

Photos of the long-forgotten Soviet soda machines, at Russian Kafe.

• Veronica Khokhlova

Egypt

The Arabist highlights what it describes as the “latest Israel Lobby initiative to sully the image of Middle Easterners” in the US here.

• Amira Al Hussaini

Egypt

Egyptian-born actor Omar Al Sharif, 74, is a bully, writes Issandr El Amrani following news reports that Sharif, who starred in Doctor Zhivago and Lawrence of Arabia, punched a Guatemalan immigrant and called him a “stupid Mexican” in Beverly Hills.

• Amira Al Hussaini

Egypt

Algerian blogger Lameen Souag reports that an ancient Semitic scribe containing a spell against snakes was finally deciphered. The spell was found in the Pyramids in Egypt.

• Amira Al Hussaini

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