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9 April 2009

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Stories from 9 April 2009

Peru: Ex-President Fujimori Sentenced to 25 Years in Prison

Written by Juan Arellano · Latin America

Former Peruvian president Alberto Fujimori received his sentence: 25 years in prison convicted for crimes against humanity during his 1990-2000 administration. He was found to be guilty in his role of 25 murders during the operations against the Shining Path terrorist insurgency that gripped the nation. Peruvian bloggers react to the decision.

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Macedonia: Facebook Removes Ministry of the Interior's Personal Profile

Written by Filip Stojanovski · Eastern & Central Europe

Creation and subsequent removal of the Facebook personal profile of the Ministry for Internal Affairs of Republic of Macedonia (MOI) attracted significant attention of the Macedonian public. Filip Stojanovski provides background and reviews bloggers' and media reactions to the incident.

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Brunei: Creating Environmental Awareness

Written by Senor Pablo · East Asia

The Earth Hour event highlighted the need for continued awareness on the need to preserve the fragile environment. Many bloggers in Brunei supported the Earth Hour event. But there are also those who believe that it was an insufficient action to preserve the environment.

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India Elections ‘09: Bloggers on the Varun Gandhi controversy

Written by Aparna Ray · South Asia

Election campaigning is in full swing in India and amidst all the frenzy, the Pilbhit constituency in Uttar Pradesh, has come under the scanner after one of its young BJP...

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Fiji: Court rules military government illegal

Written by John Liebhardt · Oceania

Fiji’s bloggers are reacting to a recent court ruling that deems the country’s military-backed government illegally came to power in December 2006. The court asks Fiji’s President to appoint a caretaker government to rule in its place until elections can be held.

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Georgia: Opposition protests in Tbilisi (Updated)

Written by Onnik Krikorian · Central Asia & Caucasus

Twenty years after clashes with Soviet troops outside the main government building in Tbilisi left 20 dead, the Georgian capital today braced itself for possible problems as the country's opposition staged its first major rally since the August war with Russia. Bloggers are posting from the ground.

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Updates from 9 April 2009

Moldova

Ethan Zuckerman writes about the social media and other aspects of the protests in Moldova: “I posted the following to Twitter: ‘NYTimes argues Twitter leads to Moldova riots. Moldovan gov’t blames Romania. Romania = Twitter? […]' I got two interesting responses almost immediately. Dinu Popa noted: ‘[…] moldovan government blames everybody: the West, Romania, Jesus, even Russia(!). The real cause is fraudulent elections'.”

• Veronica Khokhlova

Ukraine

Leopolis writes about the prospects of Arseny Yatsenyuk - “a glimmer of hope shines for many in Ukraine who are fed up.”

• Veronica Khokhlova

Moldova

MoldovAnn posts an update on Moldova, including notes on “a ‘Romanian' flavor to the demonstrations” - and this on reports “that internet was cut off”: “Sasha said that external internet traffic had been shut down (ie Facebook, vKontakte, etc), but internal traffic had been and continues to be “on”, although overloaded by excessive demand. I’ve exchanged emails the last couple of days with friends in Moldova, so apparently not all external traffic was cut off- maybe just access to websites but it doesn’t seem like email was affected.”

• Veronica Khokhlova