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13 June 2010

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Stories from 13 June 2010

Macedonia: Gender Aspects of the Football World Cup

Written by Filip Stojanovski · Sub-Saharan Africa, Eastern & Central Europe

Young Macedonian blogger and writer thinks that focus on defense combined with propagation of gender stereotypes make the Football World Cup unattractive.

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Russia: From “Sovereign Democracy” to “Sovereign Internet”?

Written by Gregory Asmolov · Eastern & Central Europe

Gregory Asmolov analyzes some of the recent Internet-related initiatives of the Russian government and explains what RuNet may possibly evolve into in the future.

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Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan: Initial Coverage of the “Osh Massacre”

Written by Alexey Sidorenko · Central Asia & Caucasus

On June 10, 2010, local clashes between the ethnic Kyrgyz and Uzbek population in the Kyrgyz part of the Ferghana valley turned into a full-blown massacre and further exodus of the Kyrgyzstan-based Uzbeks. It seems that the conflict had been incited by the Kyrgyz organized criminal gangs in order to destabilize the region and might be connected with the revolutionary events in Kyrgyzstan two months earlier. The post summarizes initial coverage of the event by local bloggers.

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Iran: Protesters Clash with Security Forces on Anniversary of Election

Written by Fred Petrossian · Middle East & North Africa

Witnesses in Tehran said scattered clashes erupted on Saturday between Iran's security forces and demonstrators gathering at key sites to mark the first anniversary of a contested presidential election.

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Updates from 13 June 2010

Gabon

Bobigny, in the Paris suburbs, is hosting a different kind of world cup, namely the 4th Poetry Slam World Cup (the quarter finals), on June 12th and 13th. Bondy Blog interviews [Fr] two finalists: Le Wise, from Gabon, and Philipp Sharri, from Germany.

• Suzanne Lehn

Iran

BlogNews reports [fa] that WordPress got filtered in Iran on Sunday.BlogNews adds that it seems a mistake happened because all blogs using WordPress got filtered.

• Fred Petrossian

Development

Lisa Kays, writing for GlobalGoodness, tackles the role of playing soccer/football in promoting social change in Africa.

• Kevin Rennie

Fiji

Just a week after Fiji's Ratu Kadavulevu School was closed by the health department because its kitchen wasn't up to code, the country's largest boarding school dedicated a new chapel at the cost of about US $500,000. Wendy, writing in the blog Babasiga, asked why the school kitchen wasn't fixed earlier in the year.

• Michael Hartsell

India

There is a lively discussion going on in Death Ends Fun Blog on the issue of denial of Canadian visa to an ex- Indian Boder security Force (BSF) member because the force has a record of violence.

• Rezwan

Kyrgyzstan

English-language coverage of the situation in Kyrgyzstan - at neweurasia.net. Kyrgyz blogger writes: “Call it whatever you want, but I name it a massacre of Uzbeks in Osh and Jalalabad (Kyrgyzstan), which is, at the moment, still going on and the Interim government headed by Rosa Otunbaeva cannot do anything to prevent it.”

• Veronica Khokhlova