Global Voices · Citizen media stories from 2007 March 16

16 March 2007

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Stories from 16 March 2007

Africa: Blogging business, investment, and entrepreneurship

Written by Benin Mwangi · Sub-Saharan Africa, Western Europe

In our first post on Africa's business bloggers we introduced you to the Africa bloggers focusing on business. In this second post, we are only going to focus on a...

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Nepal: Abdication talks and the provocative CD

Written by Ujjwal Acharya · South Asia

Prime Minister Girija Prasad Koirala’s suggestion that King Gyanendra and Crown Prince Paras should abdicate created the loudest buzz in Nepal. Amid talks of going into republic after the king...

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Egypt: Bloggers Arrested in Anti-Government Rally

Written by Amira Al Hussaini · Middle East & North Africa

Egypt is at it again and amid little or next to no coverage in the mainstream media, its dynamic bloggers are living up to their reputation of being true citizen...

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Questions about the Armenian economy

Written by Artur Papyan · Central Asia & Caucasus

There is some impressive growth in the Armenian economy, The Armenian Economist (of course!) says: […]Armenia’s economy has grown at double digit rates over the past five years. Construction activity...

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Electronic arts scene mingles with marginalized communities in Colombia

Written by Juliana Rincón Parra · Latin America

Take electronic media, a community with a violent history and music, and you have the necessary ingredients to make a Pixelazo. “Pixelazo is the new Colombian node in the Pixelache...

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Bahrain: A better literary life for civil servants?

Written by Ayesha Saldanha · Middle East & North Africa

We begin this week's review of Bahrain's blogs with Lulu's review of Bahrain's second annual Spring of Culture. Regarding the music/poetry/dance performance headlined by Marcel Khalife, and which caused controversy...

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Iranian Women Activists in Pain and Ahmadinejad's Trip to NY

Written by Fred Petrossian · Middle East & North Africa

Two of 32 women activists, Shadi Sadr (thanks to Kosoof,we can see her photo here) and Mahboobeh Abassgholizadeh, who were arrested during a peace demonstration in Tehran on 4th of...

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South Africa: Blog Awards Mashup: Blogging Is Dead, Where Art Thou Stormhoek?, Conflict Of Interest, and Elite Bloggers

Written by Ndesanjo Macha · Sub-Saharan Africa

South Africans are voting this month for the best South African weblogs in various categories. The final voting for The South African Weblog Awards - 2007 was open to the...

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Thai Water Festival Brought Forward to Reduce Smog

Written by Preetam Rai · East Asia

Malaysia and Singapore are usually the victims of the haze arising from the burning of vegetation in the neighboring island of Sumatra. During the worst hazy days some people who...

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Updates from 16 March 2007

Venezuela

Anticipating Chavez's upcoming visit to Haiti, Roody Edme writes [Fr]: “His arrival requires an apt diplomatic dance… The recent American decision to list the country as a nation that might possibly benefit from the ethanol project echoes Caracas' decision to make us benefit from the Petro-Caribe clause … While we want to avoid always hiding in “American skirts”, we also should not act like rebellious children. “

• Alice Backer

Poland

The beatroot writes about the Polish government's “de-communization zeal.” Among other things, bloggers might be affected by the new law as well: “All journalists – public or private - born before 1972, must now be vetted for communist era collaboration.” The post has generated 51 comment thus far.

• Veronica Khokhlova

Poland

The beatroot reports that “the Russian NGO Memorial has pledged to pursue all legal means to get Moscow to recognize Soviet responsibility for the deaths of over 20,000 Polish officers in the Katyn massacre of 1940.”

• Veronica Khokhlova

Latvia

Vilhelm Konnander writes about a documentary being made on Latvia's outgoing president Vaira Vike-Freiberga.

• Veronica Khokhlova

Russia

The Turkish Invasion experiences a blackout: “So another myth about Russia is busted…no reliable electricity.”

• Veronica Khokhlova

Russia

Andy of Siberian Light interviews Sean Guillory of Sean's Russia Blog.

• Veronica Khokhlova

Russia

Russia in the Media critiques Luke Harding's Guardian piece on Russia's poor; Russia Blog awards The Stranger's Annie Wagner with “the Shoe Award” for her review of the 9th Company movie.

• Veronica Khokhlova

Russia

Russian Kafe writes about Cold War films that could have caused “a child to write things like ‘I have been worrying about Russia and the United States getting into a nuclear war' and ‘I would like to know why you want to conquer the world or at least our country'.”

• Veronica Khokhlova

Kazakhstan

Tolkun Umaraliev agrees with the new Turkmen president's views on democracy — namely that it cannot simply be imported ready-made, but that it instead has to be adapted to local traditions and culture.

• Nathan Hamm

Russia

Russian bureaucrats force Darkness at Noon to live without his passport; at some point, it looks like the passport has been lost; but then the blogger hears this: “In Russia we don't lose things. We just take a long time looking for them!” - and, bingo, “this little saying puts the familiar (and tired) question of ‘who lost Russia?' in a new light: maybe Russia isn't lost after all - maybe we're just still looking for it…“

• Veronica Khokhlova

Russia: The RuNet's Top 10 Political Slang Words

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...