Global Voices Online

An ongoing initiative (RUS) to compile a list of “those who died in the war of 2008, whose names are found on the web” - by LJ user hunu: “The list is incomplete, of course. […] I've placed the names of the dead on the same page - of civilians as well as of the armed participants of the war from all three sides. Some people may not like it, but I don't see any other way of doing it.”

Posted by Veronica Khokhlova

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Recent Links also in Eastern & Central Europe

Hungarian Spectrum writes about a documentary on “the devastating effects of Hungarian political divisiveness on families and friendships.”

Hungarian Spectrum is wondering how it is possible that “growing marijuana plants seems to deserve as harsh a sentence as murder” in Hungary.

Chernobyl and Eastern Europe Blog posts an interview with a former Chernobyl liquidator - part 1 and part 2 - who now lives in the US and has written a novel in Russian about his experience.