Global Voices · Citizen media stories from 2008 July 27

27 July 2008

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Stories from 27 July 2008

Syria: Proud to be Backward and an Extremist

Written by Amira Al Hussaini · Middle East & North Africa

Syrian blog Mohammed Online [Ar] posts six pieces of advice on how to become “backward” and an “extremist.” He also goes on to tell us why he would be proud being one.

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Serbia: Demonstrators Attack Journalists in Belgrade

Written by Sinisa Boljanovic · Eastern & Central Europe

Starting with the night when Radovan Karadzic was arrested, nationalist group members and high-ranking officials of the Serbian Radical Party have been gathering in the streets of central Belgrade. Although there were police units nearby, on July 24 the protesters broke several store windows and brutally attacked journalists and cameramen of the "treacherous media." Below are some of the bloggers' responses and other public reactions, compiled and translated by Sinisa Boljanovic.

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Brazil: Controversial nuclear project is given green light

Written by Paula Góes · Latin America

Controversial Angra 3 reactor for Brazil's Nuclear Power Plant was given a pre-licence by the Brazilian Institute of Environment and Renewable Natural Resources (IBAMA) last July 23, not before a series of 60 environmental terms were imposed by Environment Minister Carlos Minc.

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Singapore: Should government legalize organ trade?

Written by Mong Palatino · East Asia

An important debate is raging in Singapore: Should government legalize organ trade? Health officials, medical specialists and bloggers are exchanging views about the issue.

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Bahrain: Missing India

Written by Ayesha Saldanha · Middle East & North Africa

Many Bahrainis study at universities and colleges in India, and one of them is blogger MuJtAbA AlMoAmEn. He recently wrote about his feelings of missing Bahrain when in India - and his desire to go back to India after a long break in Bahrain.

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D.R. Congo: Kinshasa's “baroque” style

Written by Jennifer Brea · Sub-Saharan Africa

From architecture to music, from dance to dress, in the throbbing capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo, excess is in style.

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Updates from 27 July 2008

Russia

Oleg Klimov posts photos - here and here - from Nashi's Seliger summer camp. (Text in Russian.)

• Veronica Khokhlova

Russia

The Turkish Invasion writes at length about the Soviet Afghan War and posts pictures from the memorial in Kyiv. Window on Eurasia writes that Russian Afghan War vets “want Moscow to celebrate their war too.”

• Veronica Khokhlova

Russia

Vilhelm Konnander writes about the results of two parallel competitions whose aim was to choose “Seven Wonders of Russia.”

• Veronica Khokhlova

Russia

Two-Zero writes about the cost of living in Moscow - for expats and for locals.

• Veronica Khokhlova

Iraq

Chernobyl and Eastern Europe writes that “three Texas Tech professors and their graduate students trained 27 Iraqi scientists about processes needed to clean up radioactive debris” this past June in Pripyat: “Well, that’s an interesting use of Pripyat - train Iraqis on radiation clean up techniques in a city that officials have failed to completely decontaminate over the last 23 years. If nothing else, the Iraqis learned what some of their cities may look like in the near future.”

• Veronica Khokhlova