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tokyodo-2005[jp] has reposted a cartoon by Hashimoto Masaru. “People are not concerned even when the government violates human rights. This probably means that people who live in Japan in fact are very unhappy. Because they are unhappy, when other people's human rights are violated, they don't consider these to be violations…”
Srebrenica Genocide Blog writes about the breakdown of those killed and missing in the Srebrenica region.
Balkan Anarchist writes at length about Croatian Serbs and their war experiences: “If someone were to ask me how I felt about what my Serbs, the Croatian Serbs, went through during the first half of the 1990s, I would answer them by saying, “heartbroken”. Heartbroken that those leaders who led my people have, thanks to their politics, contributed to the current situation my people are in, i.e. not by their centuries-old “hearths” as we call our lands, but in Serbia and other parts of the world.”
Belgrade 2.0 posts a wonderful selection of the wonderful video stories by Dusan Saponja and Dusan Cavic: “For short episodes such as these you just saw, it’s not really necessary to understand Serbian. However, most of the real masterpieces, award-winning shows, are subtitled. You see, besides humorous short clips, Dushan and Dushan are really the best when it comes to exploring not-so-popular subjects of the sometimes not-so-cheerful Serbian reality […].”
Belgrade 2.0 writes about “Kosovo is Serbia” campaign and other elements of the current Kosovo-related “tension.”
TOL's Balkanizer wonders whether Bosnia is going to recognize Kosovo's independence, once it is declared.
Scraps of Moscow writes about “a Nashi-sponsored fashion-show-cum-rally,” Russian politics and feminism: “The young lady - or at least part of her - is proclaiming, ‘VOVA! I am with you!'”
Jordanian blogger Ohod discusses the “crisis of public spaces in Jordan.”
Yulia Tymoshenko got 225 votes instead of the needed 226 to become Ukraine's PM today, and Ukrainiana wonders if Arseniy Yatsenyuk is ready to deliver on his promise to resign as speaker due to that: “Yatsenyuk got the job only as a condition of the Orange Coalition agreement between BYuT and NUNS. If he choses to keep the job as a condition of a Grand Coalition agreement, he, along with the entire NUNS, will follow in Moroz’s footsteps.”
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Hello Kasnar, I regret to say that those type of programmes are very common all over Brazil, both on local and...
Wow!!. I'm an American and I do not speak Portuguese well if at all. I did find it strange...