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The Dominican Republic's Environment Ministry launched a program that would provide compensation to farmers, landowners or communities who take active steps towards conservation and responsible management of the country's natural resources. Some bloggers normally would be skeptical, but see a value in the initiative.
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Global Voices is offering six bloggers based in Kenya the opportunity to attend the Global Voices Citizen Media Summit in Nairobi for free. ... More »
Via Veni Markovski, a link to a Bulgarian-language blog of Bojidar Antonov, who has recently finished a 30-day, 1,500-kilometer run across Bulgaria. (An intro in English is here.)
Srebrenica Genocide Blog writes about chemical weapons allegedly used against Srebrenica civilians and about the obscene graffiti left by the Dutch troops stationed at the UN base in Potocari.
Hans Stege of Kremlin, Inc is trying to figure out who's behind “a mysterious Austrian investment firm called Integrum Technologies [that is] involved in the controversial Vanco Black Sea offshore project.”
FP's Passport writes about the ongoing TNK-BP scandal and new charges against Mikhail Khodorkovsky.
Eternal Remont comments on the recent hackers' attack on 300 Lithuanian web sites that were defaced with Soviet symbols and anti-Lithuanian slogans.
Leopolis writes about Poland's refusal to host the U.S. missile defense shield: “According to Republican adviser and historian Edward Lutwak, ‘the government of the Republic of Poland by rejecting the US offer forfeited a valuable partner that would protect it against Russia. It is an elementary mistake.' Such talk will certainly convince Moscow that the shield is directed towards them, an even more elementary mistake.”
Darkness at Noon writes about change in Belarus - “the kind that the cashier gives back at the store.”
Copydude recommends Lara Vapnyar's fiction: “In ‘Broccoli and Other Tales of Food and Love‘ you can taste the lives and longings of Russian emigres in America. If you’ve ever lived abroad, you can relate to the theme easily.”
Yagoob asks why needy Bahraini families have not received the financial support they were promised six months ago that was aimed at protecting them against inflation.
Redbelt argues that Bahrainis always refuse to take responsibility for their problems, and prefer to blame external factors.
That's a great list. Now that Afrigator is no more, how do we get another list of such Top Ranked...
Quite interesting! Global Voices indeed has moved out-of-the-box, you're sure going places.
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