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9 July 2009

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Stories from 9 July 2009

USA: One Step Closer to Lifting HIV Travel Ban

Last week the U.S. government initiated the final steps required to lift long-standing travel and immigration restrictions imposed on HIV-positive foreigners.

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US-Russia: Rewinding the Russia reset

Written by Vilhelm Konnander · Eastern & Central Europe, North America

Two new presidents, two great powers, and three world leaders. That was the stage set as US President Obama earlier this week travelled to Moscow to meet Russia's President Medvedev and Premier Putin. With shared and conflicting legacies of idealism versus realism, the meeting held the promise of a new start in the two countries' relations. Still, as we rewind the "reset summary" for US-Russian relations, this was not exactly the outcome of the visit, at least when seen through the eyes of the Russian blogosphere.

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Arab World: Swine Flu Fever Continues

Written by Amira Al Hussaini · Middle East & North Africa

Swine flu or H1N1 is still making headlines across the Arab world as new cases continue to be discovered by health authorities and announced in the Press on a daily basis. Here's a preview of what bloggers in Bahrain, Jordan, Egypt and Syria are talking about.

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Updates from 9 July 2009

Russia

English Russia tells the story of how the vodka issue was dealt with by political leaders during the soviet era.

• Vilhelm Konnander

Russia

LJ user supehero gives his very own explanation [RUS] to why President Medvedev looked so drowsy at the G8 summit in Italy.

• Vilhelm Konnander

Belarus

Sergei Makedonov at OpenDemocracy discerns an increasing foreign policy split between Russia and Belarus and explains why.

• Vilhelm Konnander

Bosnia Herzegovina

Srebrenica Genocide Blog reports about the opening of a mass grave exhibhition at the Sarajevo museum.

• Vilhelm Konnander

Grenada

Repeating Islands marks the occasion of “the King of Calypso Mighty Sparrow’s 74th birthday.”

• Janine Mendes-Franco

Bermuda

The Bermudian Premier has announced that Public Access To Information legislation “will be one of the first topics on the parliamentary schedule in November” - Vexed Bermoothes thinks that “the complete law must be exposed to the public in an advance consultation, and advice solicited from outside experts in freedom of information.”

• Janine Mendes-Franco

Jamaica

In the context of the West Indies Cricket Team's strike, Jamaica's Girl With a Purpose humbly suggests that “the West Indies Cricket Board needs to include at least three women, who are prudent, business and financially savvy, with guts, and who can get things done.”

• Janine Mendes-Franco

Ghana

Erik discusses Obama's new media strategies for his trip to Ghana: We’re launching an SMS platform to allow citizens to submit questions, comments and words of welcome (in English and in French) . Using a local SMS short code in Ghana (1731) , Nigeria (32969) , South Africa (31958) and Kenya (5683), as well as a long code across the rest of the world*

• Ndesanjo Macha

Japan

With “Love Japan“, Rakuten Inc. has enabled personal donations to politicians via credit card, a first in Japan. Hit Okano [ja] ponders about the relationship between the amount of donated money and its influence on politicians, while blogger Satotaku [ja] refers to U.S. President Obama's success with online contributions and expects other services to follow.

• Tomomi Sasaki