Global Voices · Citizen media stories from 2010 March 08

8 March 2010

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Stories from 8 March 2010

Russia: “Postal Cop” Gets Life Imprisonment

Written by Alexey Sidorenko · Eastern & Central Europe

Denis Yevsyukov, a 32-year-old Moscow policeman who killed two and injured seven people, was sentenced to life imprisonment on February 20, 2010. The verdict became the hot topic in the Russian blogosphere, igniting discussions about police corruption, modernization challenge and responsibility of the authorities.

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Russia: Bloggers Outraged About Pedophile Case

Written by Alexey Sidorenko · Eastern & Central Europe

The mild sentencing of a man who raped a little girl has caused an outcry among Russian bloggers and led to additional investigation of the judicial process.

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Russia: Rally Demands Overhaul of Corrupt Police Force

Written by Andrei Skvarsky · Eastern & Central Europe

Several hundred activists, at a rally in Moscow on March 6, demanded an overhaul of Russia's notoriously and increasingly corrupt police force, arguing that the reform of the service ordered by President Dmitry Medvedev in December and recent firings of senior police officials could not produce any serious effect.

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Iraq: Baghdad, Bombs and Ballots

Written by Salam Adil · Middle East & North Africa

Will the elections herald a new era of political stability for Iraq or will it be more of the same? Iraqi bloggers discuss their fears and hopes on the day of the national elections.

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Nigeria: After the President's return, bloggers question who's in charge

Written by Eremipagamo Amabebe · Sub-Saharan Africa

Only two weeks after Goodluck Jonathan's long-anticipated confirmation as Acting President, ailing President Yar'Adua was stealthily flown back to Abuja after more than two months abroad. For most observers, the President's return raised more questions than it answered.

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Armenia-Turkey: Response to U.S. Genocide Resolution

Written by Onnik Krikorian · Middle East & North Africa, Central Asia & Caucasus

Following last week's resolution urging the US government to recognize the 1915 massacre and deportation of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire as Genocide, reaction in the blogosphere appears to be muted. However, other alternative voices are making their voices heard.

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Puerto Rico, Haiti: International Women's Day Dedicated to Haitian Women

Written by Firuzeh Shokooh Valle · Caribbean, Latin America

This year, International Women's Day celebrates it 100th anniversary. In Puerto Rico, and in many countries in the region, the day will be dedicated to honor the resilience of Haitian women and the lives of three feminist Haitian activists who died during the January earthquake in Port-au-Prince.

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First Cambodian Women Web Portal

Written by Sopheap Chak · East Asia

Established in October 2007, the Women Web Portal is the first web portal in Khmer language in Cambodia that provides information about gender issues and women rights. GV author Sopheap Chak discusses the work and impact of this website

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SuperPower: BBC and Global Voices

Written by Ivan Sigal · Announcements

A joint project between Global Voices and BBC News as part of the BBC's SuperPower season begins today. For two weeks, we'll be adding citizen media links within BBC news stories, while sharing off-the-radar stories from our own newsroom with BBC editors and reporters.

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Indonesia: Bank bailout sparks political crisis

Written by Carolina Rumuat · East Asia

The decision of the Indonesian government to bail out Century Bank two years ago has sparked a political crisis after majority of Parliament members voted that the bail out was illegitimate. Here are the reactions of bloggers and twitterers

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Updates from 8 March 2010

Russia

Russian magazine Kommersant Money published an analytical investigation on plagiarism in online media. It suggests that the majority of media content in Russia is based on “copy-pasting” practice usually done by special software that substitutes original words with synonyms to pass the product as a different article.

• Gregory Asmolov

Russia

A historic wooden house in Moscow suburbs known as “Muromtsev Dacha” has been torn down by the authorities amid numerous protests from the residents. The photos of the demolition have been posted by different bloggers and gathered at LJ community photo-polygon.

• Vadim Isakov

Jamaica

Jamaica's Active Voice admits she's “quite fascinated by the goings on in Trinidad and Tobago over the last couple of days”, saying, “I'd like to see how the ruling party extricates itself from what appears to be damning evidence of guilt…”; Jumbie's Watch, meanwhile, has “perused the overall picture and realise[d] that this was only the beginning of the massive cleanout required.”

• Janine Mendes-Franco

Pakistan

Five Rupees reports that a suicidal car bomb has ripped through government buildings in Lahore today killing 12 people and injuring many.

• Rezwan

Ghana

Mac announces the first ever Twitter Festival dubbed: AccraTwestival2010: It is an event been co-organized by myself; MacJordaN & RodneyQuarcoo and a few volunteers based in Accra. It is scheduled to happen on Thursday March 25, 2010

• Ndesanjo Macha

Kenya

Rebecca's notes on the first day of ICANN meeting in Nairobi, Kenya. ICANN is the body that governs the assignment of domain names and IP addresses worldwide: “But I must say am impressed with the people that turned up, actually I thought it would have been a nice time to pass some controversial stuff because you would have lesser people but alas….many of them came.”

• Ndesanjo Macha