Global Voices · Citizen media stories from 2008 January 15

15 January 2008

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Stories from 15 January 2008

Russia: New Year's in Grozny

Written by Veronica Khokhlova · Eastern & Central Europe

LJ user timur-aliev has posted three New Year's snapshots taken in Grozny, the capital of Chechnya, which the United Nations called "the most destroyed city on earth" in 2003. Below is the Chechen blogger's brief account of the festivities - and a couple of clarifications from the comments section.

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China: This week's mass incidents

Written by John Kennedy · East Asia

Still several months to go until the Olympics, yet just the past few days have seen a number of unrelated mass incidents take place around the country, from the large...

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Kenya: Cyberactivism in the aftermath of political violence

Written by Ndesanjo Macha · Sub-Saharan Africa

Kenyan citizen journalists and activists are increasingly turning to popular Web 2.0 tools and applications such as wikis, blogs, Facebook, Flickr, Twitter and mashups to organize and share news and information about the post election crisis, chronicle violence, share crisis photos and raise funds to help the needy.

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India: The Political Dynasties

Written by Javits Rajendran · South Asia

Is democracy alive? That's one persistent question in the sub-continent's political gamble on hereditary. We had our kings, our queens and we stilling can't stop rooting for our neo-political emperors,...

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Ecuador: The Eruption of Tungurahua

Written by Milton Ramirez · Latin America

The Tungurahua Volcano in Ecuador has experienced a jump in activity in recent weeks. Since 1999, this activity has affected residents of the surrounding areas, especially farmers and those in the tourism industry. Some Ecuadoran bloggers are following these events, as well as other news around the country.

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Russia: Xenophobia Blogging

Written by Veronica Khokhlova · Eastern & Central Europe, Central Asia & Caucasus

There seems to be more and more posts on xenophobia in the Russian blogosphere. Many are written by xenophobes, while some are written about them. Below are two recent examples of xenophobia blogging.

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Updates from 15 January 2008

Ukraine

Ukrainiana writes about the connection between alcoholism in Ukraine and the country's richest man.

• Veronica Khokhlova

Slovenia

Even though problems seem to loom ahead, “the EU is still there, despite the fact that every multinational entity Slovenia has ever been a part of disintegrated in bloodshed,” Sleeping With Pengovsky reports.

• Veronica Khokhlova

Russia

Window on Eurasia reports on a new political trend emerging in one of Russia's North Caucasus republics: “Daghestan, the most multi-national republic in the Russian Federation, no longer has any ethno-parties which express the interests and will of particular ethnic groups. Instead, the major all-Russian parties there increasingly include representatives of a wide variety of nationalities.”

• Veronica Khokhlova

TOL Georgia examines the circumstances surrounding last November's clashes between opposition supporters and riot police, the declaration of a state of emergency, and the controversy surrounding last week's early presidential election. The blog provides a comprehensive overview of a mess that has yet to be cleared up in the former Soviet republic.

• Onnik Krikorian