Global Voices · Citizen media stories from 2010 February 13

13 February 2010

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Stories from 13 February 2010

Darfur: Youth Keep Crisis in the Spotlight

Though the major conflict has ceased in Darfur, in western Sudan, the continuing instability and ongoing attacks have been particularly harmful for the region's young people. But youth both within and outside of Sudan have been vital in raising awareness and funds and trying to bring change to Darfur.

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Kazakhstan: About children and president's speech

Written by Adil Nurmakov · Central Asia & Caucasus

The bloggers of Kazakhstan were talking about children and the President Nazarbayev's annual address to the nation. The kids topic, probably, aroused from the news about the death of Casey...

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Uzbekistan: President Karimov's thoughts about media

Written by Mansurhon · Central Asia & Caucasus

Recently President Karimov again mentioned about leading role of mass-media in Uzbekistan. Considering sensitivity of this issue and increasing cases of pressure on independent journalists (i.e. thos who don’t work...

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U.S.A., Cuba: Cuban-American Congressman Announces Resignation

Written by Susannah Vila · North America, Latin America

Bloggers in Miami and Cuba are buzzing over the news that US Representative Lincoln Diaz-Balart will not run for reelection in the fall. Diaz-Balart, a Republican, is a staunch supporter of the trade embargo against Cuba, and he took his resignation speech as an opportunity to highlight his role in codifying the embargo.

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Updates from 13 February 2010

Russia

The Russian Telecommunications Agency is about to propose a new anti-plagiarism law that will require all Web sites to provide hyperlinks to the original source of the information that they use, newspaper Vedomosti reported [RUS]. Experts argue that the law will be hard to enforce.

• Alexey Sidorenko

Russia

Another two popular Russian journalists started to blog recently, a contemporary artist Dmitri Vrubel reports [RUS]. The prominent reporters for the major Russian newspaper “Kommersant” Andrei Kolesnikov [RUS] and Valery Panyushkin [RUS] joined the community of bloggers.

• Alexey Sidorenko

China

The Chinese government encourages people to send positive message through SMS after banning dirty joke. DANWEI translated Southern Weekly's story on “Red snippets”.

• Oiwan Lam

Tajikistan

Alpharabius reports on a border incident between Uzbek border guards and Tajik servicemen, which almost led to a gunfire, and wonders could an alleged attempt to steal a cow provoke an armed conflict.

• Adil Nurmakov

Turkmenistan

“Turkmenistan’s leadership has been insisting that the country was not affected by the global financial', Annasoltan says and comments on how could this be.

• Adil Nurmakov

Uzbekistan

Kyrgyz blogger writes about Uzbekistan's resitriction to Kyrgyz citizen to visit Uzbekistan more than once in three months.

• Adil Nurmakov

Afghanistan

Peter Marton reports on a cheese factory in Afghanistan. It was started 30 years ago, destroyed in the 1980s and re-launched again in 2006.

• Adil Nurmakov

Macedonia

Macedonia-based Metamorphosis: Foundation for Sustainable ICT Solutions has issued a statement “on the role of the state in the process of protecting children from the risks of using new technologies, by applying internet content filtering systems and systems for categorization of computer games.”

• Veronica Khokhlova