Global Voices · Citizen media stories from 2008 January 24

24 January 2008

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Stories from 24 January 2008

Peru: Introduction to Bloggers from Iquitos

Written by Juan Arellano · Latin America

The Iquitos or Loreto blogsphere is comprised mostly by young people, with some notable exceptions. Some blog about politics in the Amazon town, while many more write about their own personal lives. Here is an introduction to some of these bloggers.

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Brazilian Football Star Remembered on 25th Death Anniversary

Written by Juliana Rincón Parra · Latin America

It is through video online that many Brazilians and football fans from around the world have found a way to pay homage to one of the best dribblers in football history, Manuel Francisco dos Santos, best known as Garrincha.

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Kenyan Bloggers back to “almost” normal life

Written by Rebecca Wanjiku · Sub-Saharan Africa

After the unfortunate crisis following the presidential election in Kenya, Kenyan bloggers are back to normal business writing about a variety of non-political subjects.

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Afghanistan: Death Sentence for Distributing Blog Article

Written by Fred Petrossian · Central Asia & Caucasus

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South Africa: Good start for Bafana?

Written by Ndesanjo Macha · Sub-Saharan Africa

South Africa Rocks writes about the South African national team at the Africa Cup of Nations: “Not a bad start in the Group Of Death (GOD - strange that). All...

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Armenia: Political Blogging Intensifies

Written by Artur Papyan · Central Asia & Caucasus

The past week was eventful, and while the traditional media in Armenia were pondering their adequate response so as to avoid “unnecessary complications”, the Armenian Internet community were discussing the...

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Morocco: Censorship Update

Written by Jillian C. York · Middle East & North Africa

2006 was a rough year for Moroccan internet freedoms, with several sites being blocked; 2007 wasn't much better with sites that were previously open becoming only sporadically accessible. Moi, dans...

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Ukraine: A Porous Border

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

Ukrainian news site Korrespondent.net posted a translation of a Sunday Times story on Ukraine's porous borders and illegal migration. The English-language original has received 16 reader comments so far, the Russian translation - 88 comments. While many readers admitted that the problem of illegal migration existed in Ukraine and that corruption among officials contributed to it, most did not seem happy about the Sunday Times' story.

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Environment: Global roundup of Enviroblogs.

Written by Juliana Rotich · Sub-Saharan Africa

Environmental blogs around the world are addressing a myriad issues specific to their region, but of global concern. In DRC the Gorilla Protection blog is pondering what a peace deal would mean for Gorillas. From China Dialogue, a look at what is next after the Bali climate change conference, and from South Africa, we have reactions to the recent power shortages and an eco-car competition.

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Touring Libyan Blogs: broken hearts country

Written by Fozia Mohamed · Middle East & North Africa

If I were superstitious, I would have said that the evil eye has hit the Libyan bloggers. A month before Valentine's Day, a larger than usual number has caught the heartbreak bug, and the bigger than life problems' caravan. It's a bullet train sweeping everything in its path, men and women being equally affected, writes Fozia Mohamed.

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Updates from 24 January 2008

Lithuania

Viola in Vilnius writes about Lithuanian flautist Vytautas Sriubikis - and briefly mentions the Hill of Crosses, quite an extraordinary place near the town of Siauliai, which “not surprisingly is a hill covered in crosses, and a bit of a place of pilgrimage.”

• Veronica Khokhlova

Albania

Albanian Blogger writes about Eda Zari, an Albanian singer who has recently given up her Albanian citizenship.

• Veronica Khokhlova

United Kingdom

Greater Surbiton writes on leftist interpretations of fascism - and of Serbian politics.

• Veronica Khokhlova

Hungary

Pestiside.hu responds to an LA reader who is afraid of going to Budapest.

• Veronica Khokhlova

Poland

Our Man in Gdansk writes about Poland's eastern border, the non-Schengen, closely guarded one: “A lorry driver died in the 20-mile queue at the Ukrainian-Polish border crossing at Dorohusk. Warsaw sat up and noticed: Poland has an eastern border.”

• Veronica Khokhlova

Saudi Arabia

Window on Eurasia writes about hajj quotas and how it relates to Russia's Muslims.

• Veronica Khokhlova

Russia

De Rebus Antiquis Et Novis writes about the history of Decossackization in Russia and recommends a book on the subject, written by Gregory Tschebotarioff, a former Cossack officer, now a professor at Princeton University.

• Veronica Khokhlova

Bosnia Herzegovina

Sleeping with Pengovsky posts a copy of the Beatles' ‘Yesterday' - spelled phonetically by Croatian musicians: “… For all of you native speakers out there - if you ever wondered how English sounds to people from the Balkans - take a look at the above picture. It just doesn’t get any better than this.”

• Veronica Khokhlova

Russia

MoldovAnn asks readers to vote “for Kyiv to become one of the 22 cities of the world to be included in the new Monopoly World Edition game board.” Robert Amsterdam writes about real-life Monopoly being played in Russia by the Kremlin.

• Veronica Khokhlova