Global Voices · Citizen media stories from 2007 December 03

3 December 2007

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Stories from 3 December 2007

Russia: More on the Duma Election

Written by Veronica Khokhlova · Eastern & Central Europe

The previous Global Voices post on the general elections in Russia was a translation of Russian bloggers' views; the post below deals with what some of the English-language Russia bloggers have been writing recently.

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Chogm Appraisal: The Round-Up from Ugandan Blogosphere

Written by Glenna Gordon · Sub-Saharan Africa

The Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (Chogm) took place recently in Kampala. Here is the round-up of interesting conversations and reactions in the Ugandan blogosphere about the meeting.

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The hazards of journalism in West Africa

Written by John Liebhardt · Sub-Saharan Africa

In a country whose name means “the land of upright people,” accounts of corruption will always find their way into Burkina Faso’s media. In this country with proud history of fighting kleptocracy, however, something now seems terribly wrong.

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China: Report from Hong Kong on sweatshop

Written by Bob Chen · East Asia

After long effort, the Hong Kong-based student organization SACOM (Students and Scholars Against Corporate Misbehavior大学师生监察无良企业行动) published a report on Dell Computer and its suppliers’ misconducts related to labor rights in mainland China. Here is a collection of voices and replies from domestic websites.

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Guatemala: A Tasteless Advertising Campaign

Written by Renata Avila · Latin America

A series of advertisements from a Guatemalan shoe company that depicted dead women wearing the fashionable shoes caused an uproar. In a country, where the murder of women happens at an alarming rate, these ads were especially deemed to be in poor taste. Guatemalan bloggers protest and announce boycotts of the shoe company.

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Kyrgyzstan: Political season gets hot

Written by Asel · Central Asia & Caucasus

Bloggers in Kyrgyzstan discuss the changes that the government is undergoing after the President Bakiev’s sudden dismissals and appointments of a whole bunch of key state figures. Newly appointed and...

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Updates from 3 December 2007

Romania

Transatlantic Politics writes about a Romanian documentary “about what Radio Free Europe meant for the listeners in the Communist block, especially Romanians”: “It was the only trustworthy medium in a sea of Communist propaganda. It was also highly risky to listen to it.”

• Veronica Khokhlova

La Russophobe posts translation of an article by Andrei Illarionov, former economic policy advisor to Vladimir Putin, in which he writes: “A year and a half ago, it was a question of premonitions of a catastrophe. One and a half months ago - prologue to a catastrophe. And now - its beginning.” At the New York Times Blog, La Russophobe's questions are among the 145 others posed so far to the newspaper's Moscow correspondents about “the meaning of the [Dec. 2] vote and the country’s political future.”