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The U.P. ISSUES, an alternative weblog that looks at the “view from the other side that never sees print in UP's official website,” posts commentaries, statements, and news reports on the controversial issues hounding the University of the Philippines, the country's premier state university.
John Ryan Recabar of Going Against the Current blogs about his job as an instructor at the University of the Philippines.
Some 20% of the servers at Odessa-based Hosting.ua data center - one of the biggest in Ukraine - are reported to have been destroyed in a fire on March 27. UkrainianWatcher writes (UKR) that “tens of thousands of Ukrainian and a number of Russian sites are currently offline” and re-posts photos of the damaged building by an Odessa city forum user xcorwin. Habrahabr.ru user hosting reports (RUS) that “people are in panic, 10 hours have passed and there's no official info.” Twitter reactions (RUS, UKR) are here.
Sean Guillory of Sean's Russia Blog comments on the recent bribes/coke/girls video scandal: “Also, catching them bribing cops is hardly scandalous. If they offered the cops bribes and the cops refused now that would be scandalous! Anyway, isn’t the more important issue not Yashin, Oreshkin, and Fishman giving bribes, but the cops taking them?”
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==> As Africans we need to let go of our victimhood, inferiority complex & acceptance...