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October, 2010

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Stories from October, 2010

5 October 2010

Russia: Medvedev Addresses the People of Belarus via Video Blog

Written by Yelena Osipova · Eastern & Central Europe

Two weeks ago, Belarus' current leader and future presidential hopeful (yet again) bashed the Russian President's blog. Medvedev responded by sending a video blog message to the people of Belarus. Yelena Osipova looks at the details of this exchange.

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Morocco: Another Magazine Bites the Dust

Written by Jillian C. York · Middle East & North Africa

Morocco's only weekly magazine published in the local Arabic dialect, darija, Nichane is closing shop after a sustained advertising boycott. Bloggers lament the loss of a publication which filled a niche in Morocco's ever-growing publishing industry, covering topics from a point of view usually reserved for the country's many French-language publications.

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Dominican Republic: Digital TV in 2015

Written by Rocío Díaz · Translated by Andres Riveros · Latin America

September 24th 2015 is the set date by the Dominican Institute of Telecommunications (Indotel) to make the definitive transition to digital television.

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Kuwait: Let the Tomatoes Rot!

Written by Abdullatif AlOmar · Middle East & North Africa

Tomatoes are now eight times more expensive in Kuwait than they were a month ago - and netizens are not taking the change in prices in stride. They cannot find an explanation to why the cost of a box of tomatoes jumped from half a dinar ($1.70) to KD4 ($14) in just a few days.

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Brazil: Presidential elections go to second round, social media step in

Written by Marta Cooper · Latin America

A last-minute surge by Green Party candidate Marina Silva has pushed Brazil's presidential election into a second round with Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva's widely tipped successor, Dilma Rousseff, narrowly missing out on becoming the country’s first female leader.

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Venezuela: Analysis and Reactions to Legislative Election Results

Written by Patricia Acosta · Translated by Ela Stapley · Latin America

The results of the legislative elections of September 26 gave the opposition 65 seats in the National Assembly, even though they obtained the majority of the vote with 52%; while the ruling party with 48% of the vote, obtained 98 seats. The reactions to these results have been varied, and many citizens have turned to the Internet to voice their opinion and analysis through blogs and Twitter.

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Updates from October, 2010

24 October 2010

Maldives

“#tunaeffect is a Maldivian twitter directory and a platform for Maldivian twitter users to come together as a community,” informs Rhipha.

• Rezwan

Bangladesh

Sri Lankan photoblogger Chulie De Silva visits a Durga puja festival in Dhaka, Bangladesh and posts a photo essay.

• Rezwan

Angola

“Engaging Francophone/Anglophone divide in researching Africa” is a panel that invites contributions that attempt to map out specific areas of the Francophone-Anglophone polarisation in African studies as sites of knowledge production that create both opportunities and constraints for research in and on Africa.

• Ndesanjo Macha

Gambia

Sokari posts a press release by Coalition for Human Rights in the Gambia concerning the arrest of Dr. Isatou Touray, the Executive Director and Amie Bojang- Sissoho, Programme Coordinator for the Gambia Committee on Traditional Practices (GAMCOTRAP).

• Ndesanjo Macha

United Arab Emirates

Fake Plastic Souks, from the UAE, discusses taxi fares in the United Arab Emirates and how taxi drivers are faring.

• Amira Al Hussaini

United Arab Emirates

The United Arab Emirates has lifted a ban on photo sharing site Flickr, writes the UAE Community Blog. “According to a report in The National, the TRA has lifted the Flickr ban. Good news for UAE internet users and photographers. Apparently, it's been made possible by Yahoo utilising the same content filter that they are using for Singapore's Flickr access,” says nzm.

• Amira Al Hussaini

Armenia

A campaign represented as being organized by ‘Armenian bloggers' has been established to demand the return of the body of Manvel Sarinbekyan, an Armenian who reportedly hung himself while in detention after crossing the border with Azerbaijan.The campaign has been launched in both Russian and English. Meanwhile, and as the conflict between the two countries over the disputed territory of Nagorno Karabakh continues to claim lives despite a 1994 ceasefire, some Azerbaijanis are also demanding the return of the bodies of two dead soldiers held by the Armenian side. Campaigns and support groups demanding the return of one, Mübariz İbrahimov, are particularly present on social networking site Facebook as well as blogs and forums, but actual involvement by online users and bloggers in both countries appears to constitute a minority.

• Onnik Krikorian

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