Global Voices · Veronica Khokhlova

Contributor profile · 7424 posts · joined 21 January 2006

Regional Editor for Central and Eastern Europe

I'm a Kyiv native; divide my time between Kyiv, Moscow, Istanbul and the Croatian island of Vis; lived in St. Petersburg in 2003-2005; attended Rutgers University and the University of Iowa in the 1990s. I blog at Neeka's Backlog; tweet @smetanka; my photos from 2006 up to now are at Flickr; my Global Voices translations are stored on Work Log; some of my pre-blog/non-blog work has been “filed away” here.

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10 April 2013

Macedonia's Media Law Lacks Media's Input

The Association of Journalists of Macedonia (AJM) explains [en] why Macedonian journalists are demanding an open debate “on the scope and the contents” of the draft Law on the Media (via @Macedonia_en):

[...] It was prepared, in its entirety, by the Government and is offered today to the public to give its comments and suggestions as a final and closed concept. [...] we do need changes in the legislation to incorporate the EU Audiovisual Media Services Directive and we need improved and strengthened implementation of the existing legislation. Any expansion of the scope of the regulation needs to be preceded by a serious debate on the very need to introduce new regulation. [...]

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30 March 2013

VIDEO: Ukrainian Power Plant Ablaze, Town's Future Uncertain

Written by Veronica Khokhlova · Eastern & Central Europe

At least one person was killed and five injured on March 29 in a major fire at the Vuhlehirska Thermal Power Plant in the Ukrainian town of Svitlodarsk, whose survival is now at stake.

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25 March 2013

INFOGRAPHIC: More Money for Ukraine's Bloated Police Force

Written by Veronica Khokhlova · Eastern & Central Europe

The infographics on Ukraine's law enforcement that many Ukrainian Facebook users have been sharing this month tells us that the country's police force is a bit too numerous and has been receiving more and more state funding over the past few years.

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23 March 2013

RIP Nora Šitum, “Brave Little Lion” Who United Croatia

Written by Veronica Khokhlova · Eastern & Central Europe

In early February, thousands of Croatian citizens managed to raise enough money in just over a week to make it possible for Nora Šitum, a 5-year-old Croatian girl, to travel to the United States to receive treatment for acute lymphoblastic leukemia. Nora passed away a month and a half later, on March 20, 2013.

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20 March 2013

“Suitcase Mood”: Why Ukrainians Are Moving Abroad

Written by Veronica Khokhlova · Eastern & Central Europe

Some 6.5 million of Ukrainians, or 14.4 percent of the population, are emigrants. The theme of leaving Ukraine temporarily or for good comes up regularly in conversations that Ukrainians are having online.

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16 March 2013

The Old Woman and a Potato: Ukraine's Poverty Story Goes Viral

Written by Veronica Khokhlova · Eastern & Central Europe

Journalist Olena Danko wrote a short post about her supermarket encounter with an old woman who had just enough money to buy a single potato. A heartbreaking story, typical for Ukraine, with nothing in it that could surprise anyone who has lived in the country. Yet, within hours, it went viral.

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13 March 2013

“Ten Years Without Zoran Djindjic”: Serbia Honors Slain Politician

Written by Veronica Khokhlova · Eastern & Central Europe

Zoran Djindjic, the first democratically elected Serbian Prime Minister, was shot to death on March 12, 2003. On the tenth anniversary of his assassination, thousands of people marched in Belgrade to honor his memory.

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11 March 2013

Video: Ukrainian Lawmaker Flouts Law, Berates Airport Employee

Written by Veronica Khokhlova · Eastern & Central Europe

Vadym Kolesnichenko, a Ukrainian ruling party MP, set off a small-scale online campaign when he lashed out at an airport employee who was just doing her job.

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