Global Voices Online

Scraps of Moscow tries the Pulse of the Blogosphere, a new feature of the Russian Yandex portal and writes about some of the findings - here and here: “Consider this - the Russian blogosphere has consistently mentioned “porno” and “pornography” fewer times than it has mentioned Putin for most of the Putin era.”

Recent Links also in Eastern & Central Europe

Inspired by Obama's view that states serving its peoples, and not rulers serving their own interests, tend to survive and flourish in the long run, LJ user agitator mass posts [RUS] a poll with the question: “Do you want to live in such a country?”

Ukrainiana points out the basic flaw in Russian Premier Putin's pretensions of 17 million Russians living in Ukraine, by stating the fundamental difference between state- and nationhood, language and ethnicity in terms of citizenship.

The Reference Frame reports that Czech President Vaclac Klaus has vetoed a parliamentary anti-crisis bill and presents his own thoughts on the matter.