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23 October 2007

Daily archive · 4 posts

Stories from 23 October 2007

Russia: Bloggers Discuss James Watson

Written by Veronica Khokhlova · Eastern & Central Europe, Western Europe

James Watson, an American Nobel Prize-winning geneticist, provoked international outrage when The Sunday Times quoted him on race issues on Oct. 14. The news of the controversy produced a certain stir in the Russian-language blogosphere, too.

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Tunisia: Breaking Censorship

Written by Amira Al Hussaini · Middle East & North Africa

Tunisian blogger Sami ben Gharbia decides to beat the censors in their own game. He tells us how, in this post (Ar) I am translating from Arabic today.

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African Bloggers Pay Tribute To Lucky Dube

Written by Ndesanjo Macha · Sub-Saharan Africa

"Do you ever worry about your house being broken into / Do you ever worry about your car being taken away from you in broad daylight down Highway 54 / Do you ever worry about your wife becoming the woman in black / Do you ever worry about leaving home and coming back in a coffin, with a bullet through your head / So join us and fight this crime and corruption…."

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China: Heavy schooling fees and migrant workers

Written by Meng Zhang · East Asia

Yuan Guiren, Chinese Vice Education Minister, emphasized the equal education rights for the migrant workers’ children at the CPC press conference last Saturday. However, the tough reality makes some migrant parents worried if they can find an adequate school for their children next term.

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Updates from 23 October 2007

Slovenia

Sleeping With Pengovsky writes about recent developments in Slovenian media business.

• Veronica Khokhlova

Slovenia

The Glory of Carniola writes about Slovenian horses in American movies - and about a Slovenian video-sharing website, MojVideo.

• Veronica Khokhlova

Hungary

Lots of new content on TOL's Romantic, including a post on the official patron saint of Catholic Gypsies.

• Veronica Khokhlova

Poland

A few more links on the Polish election: the beatroot explains Kaczynski's defeat; Dr. Sean's Diary sums up the results and notes a “a complete slaughter of minor parties“; Edward Lucas declares that the “era of the ‘terrible twins' is over”; Yascha Mounk's general summary at Harvard International Review; Europhobia cheers Poland, but boos Switzerland; Jonathan Newton writes about the election and Poland's EU business.

• Veronica Khokhlova

Georgia

Kaukasus posts photographs of an annual cattle drive held in Tusheti.

• Onnik Krikorian

Georgia

Faced with the prospect of an opposition rally on 2 November in Tbilisi, Transitions Online's Steady State reports that the Russian media is speculating that Georgia will seek to “provoke an armed conflict with South Ossetia in order to undermine the mass demonstration.” Meanwhile, the same site asks whether Georgia and another breakaway region, Abkhazia, can engage in dialogue.

• Onnik Krikorian

Armenia

The Armenia 2008 Election Monitor comments on media reports that opposition activists are being detained just days before Friday's rally during which the first president of Armenia, Levon Ter Petrosian, is expected to appear prior to his likely nomination for the presidential election to be held early next year.

• Onnik Krikorian

India

Jabberwock on David Leavitt's The Indian Clerk - “In essence this is a fictionalised account of the real-life collaboration between G H Hardy and Srinivasa Ramanujan in the years 1913-1919, a collaboration that led to some of the most important mathematical advances of the century.”

• Neha Viswanathan