Global Voices · Citizen media stories from December 2009

December, 2009

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Stories from December, 2009

20 December 2009

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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19 December 2009

Russia: Yegor Gaidar, Russia's Economic Reformer, Dies at 53

Written by Veronica Khokhlova · Eastern & Central Europe

Yegor Gaidar, a Russian economist and politician who initiated the 1992 "shock therapy" reforms, died in Moscow on Dec. 16 at the age of 53. Russian bloggers' responses serve as a vivid reflection of how divided people still are on Gaidar's legacy and on the direction the country has taken since the demise of the Soviet Union.

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Colombia: Twenty Years After Assassination of Luis Carlos Galán

Written by Catalina Restrepo · Latin America

Twenty years after the assassination of former Colombian presidential candidate Luis Carlos Galán, a documentary is filmed where the son of Pablo Escobar meets the children of his victims, which includes Galán.

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American Petitioner in China

Written by Andy Yee · East Asia, North America

Julie Harms, an American and a Harvard graduate, hit the news as she becomes one of the few, or perhaps the first, foreign petitioner in China. Her case was a...

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Podcast: Interview with Sudanese Drima

Written by David Sasaki · Middle East & North Africa, Sub-Saharan Africa

Sudanese Drima is the pseudonym for Global Voices' Malaysia-based Sudanese author. In this ten-minute interview we discuss how social media is affecting Islam, the Darfur conflict, and issues of Afro-Arab identity in South East Asia.

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Russian Rock Star Talks About His Social Network

Written by Gregory Asmolov · Russia

Ikra.tv is a pioneer of music social networks in Russia. It currently consists of about 6,500 members and offers various forms of communications for fans including blogs, forums and different options to share music, pictures and videos.

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Updates from December, 2009

29 December 2009

Uruguay

There are too many governmental employees in Uruguay, which only adds to the overall budget writes the blogger at Qué Pasa Uruguay? [es], adding, “Who will pay for all this? We will as usual.”

• Eduardo Avila

Russia

St Petersblurb describes a recent misadventure at the Russian-Polish border and explains that “the criminalisation of tourists is just another huge nail in the coffin of Russia’s tourist industry.”

• Veronica Khokhlova

28 December 2009