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A new interactive online game by human rights organization Breakthrough uses video to illustrate the injustices many documented and undocumented immigrants face in detention centers across the United States. In "Homeland Guantanamo", players assume the role of a journalist trying to get more information on real life detainee who has died in custody.
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Moscow Through Brown Eyes writes about the impact of the economic crisis on Russia's Central Asian migrant workers.
FP's Passport writes about the inadequate domestic coverage of the financial crisis in Russia: “When TV channels have mentioned the crisis, it has been in the context of American and European financial woes […].” Oleg Kozlovsky has more on the Russian media reaction to the crisis.
Eternal Remont reports that the EU has temporarily suspended a travel ban on Belarusian president Aleksandr Lukashenko.
Photos from St. Petersburg, Vyborg, Nizhny Novgorod, and Kazan and Ulyanovsk - at Eagle and the Bear.
Chernobyl and Eastern Europe posts a Stern.de's 2006 video from inside the Chernobyl Sarcophagus.
Chernobyl and Eastern Europe writes about plans to keep Lithuania's nuclear reactor open, despite an agreement with the EU to shut it down in 2009: “The reactor currently supplies 70% of Lithuania’s electricity, as well as power to Latvia and Estonia. Many Lithuanian leaders and citizens want to renege on the agreement, fearing the closure will cause a problematic reliance on Russia for the country’s electricity needs.”
Pictures from bike rides in the Carpathians, at Velokrayina (”BikeLand”) project blog (UKR) - here, here and here.
Dr. Sean's Diary comments on Lithuania's parliamentary elections and the tendency towards populism in Baltic politics, whereas The 8th Cricle adds a discussion on the concurrent referendum, approving a prolongation of the Ignalina nuclear power plant. Lituanica posts the full results of both the parliamentary elections and the referendum.
Polandian writes about the tendency to put up an increasing number of statues to deceased Pope John Paul II in Poland.
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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