Global Voices Online

Dr. Sean's Diary writes about Václav Klaus' multiple views of Czechoslovakia’s first president T.G. Masaryk.

Natalia Antonova writes about Ukrainian prostitutes and Ukrainian feminism.

Petro of Petro's Jotter writes about car crashes that he sees regularly during his morning commutes in Kyiv.

Elections approach both in Russia and Ukraine, and politicians start “fiddling” with the numbers of registered voters' - or accusing their opponents of doing so. Window on Eurasia reports that “members of the entourage of Kaliningrad Governor Georgiy Boos are thinking about combining his district with the Adygei Republic or with Russian citizens resident abroad.” In Ukraine, Foreign Notes reports, various forces keep finding “pseudo-persons” on the voters' lists.

nanopolitan on the faith-based attacks on science and the reluctance of the Indian scientific to comment.

Nepali Netbook on regional politics, and how India's aspiring relationship with China affects the one with Nepal.

E-Bangladesh on whether Bangladesh's government is blocking access to Google.

Siddhartha Shome on new social movements that “claim to represent the “people” – the downtrodden Indian masses, without, however, subjecting this claim to the test of democratic elections”

The 23-year old Russian blogger, Dmitry Shirinkin, who wrote a fiction story on his blog inspired by the Virginia Tech shooting, could face up to three years in prison. In an interview with Russia Today (watch the video on GV Advocacy), Shirinkin said “I didn’t expect that a short writing piece could provoke such reaction from the security services. They interrogated me asking where my gun was, but I’d never had one.”