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20 December 2009

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Stories from 20 December 2009

Chile: Presidential Election Runoff Scheduled for January

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Written by Nike Jung · Latin America

In Chile, a runoff election is scheduled for January 17, 2010 between the candidates Sebastián Piñera and Eduardo Frei and may mark the end of the 2 decade-long rule of the Concertación coalition.

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Lebanon: Fun(d)raising

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Written by Layal Al Khatib · Middle East & North Africa

A group of Lebanese bloggers decided to draw smiles on the faces of underprivileged kids by getting them toys for Christmas. Fun(d)raising is the name of their project and they're doing it the fun way.

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Russia: Popular Blogger Would Be Glad If Russian Authorities Restrict Internet

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Written by Gregory Asmolov · Eastern & Central Europe
RuNet Echo

Popular Russian blogger and activist Roman Dobrokhotov talks to GVO about the Internet and online activism in the country.

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Hungary: Bloggers Discuss the Corporate Use of Social Media

Written by Marietta Le · Eastern & Central Europe

T-Mobile Hungary experiences an outage, a Vodafone Hungary's employee tweets about it, then gets fired. Marietta Le writes about the controversy and reviews the ongoing online discussion of the corporate use of social media in Hungary.

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