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Child of the Revolution and The Cuban Triangle blog about Fidel Castro's reaction to the South Ossetia crisis.
Musafirbek says that the president of Uzbekistan officially thanked the cotton-growers for gathering the harvest of this strategic product for Uzbekistan. However, those who sweat away, collecting this cotton (including children) were not mentioned in the president’s address.
Alexander Visotzky writes about the opening of a monument in Astana, the new capital of Kazakhstan, where the authorities uncovered a 15-foot high bronze statue of incumbent president Nursultan Nazarbayev.
Dafydd reports that the EU has lifted the arms embargo on Uzbekistan. Reasons given are abolishment of the death penalty and release of political prisoners.
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Cuba: Yoani Sanchez & Other Bloggers Seized
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Of course one totalitarian state (Cuba) is going to support another (Russia). Russia is flexing it’s muscles but not to fret as like anywhere else they invaded (Hungary, Czechoslovakia) the people eventually rise up against them and they will have to slink back to their homes in disgrace. Long live Freedom! Long live FREE GEORGIA!!!!courage in