Veronica Khokhlova
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Regional Editor for Central and Eastern EuropeI'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.
Latest posts by Veronica Khokhlova
14 January 2012
Czech Republic
Slovak netizens are discussing the overpriced new website of the Slovak National Gallery [sk, en]: SME.sk reports [sk] that the “minimally designed” [en] site cost Slovak taxpayers some 25,000 euro (allegedly, 20 times the price of the website of the Czech National Gallery in Prague [cz]); SME.sk blogger Martin Palšovič has already sent an inquiry to the Slovak audit/control office [sk] (links via Tibor Blazko).
11 January 2012
Bulgaria
An anti-discrimination Roma flash mob/dance duel in Bucharest (video - here), and a report by Bulgarian Roma students on media coverage of Roma-related issues - at TOL's Roma Transitions blog. Education for the Roma children in the UK, the Czech Republic and Slovakia - at the Economist's Eastern Approaches blog. (Update: TOL's East of Center also has a post on “the Czech Republic’s segregated education policy” for the Roma students.)
Russia
AskYakutia answers a Swedish 12-year-old's questions about winter clothes, animals and school kids in Yakutia (where it is currently -52°C/-59.8°F).
9 January 2012
Turkey
Trici Venola's wonderful Istanbul drawings and reflections - at her Drawing On Istanbul blog: “Plein Air drawing in Turkey: blogging about the site and the process.” More drawings by Trici are here.
8 January 2012
Bulgaria
Spotted by Locals: Experience cities like a local features a few dozen locations, including CEE cities of Belgrade, Bucharest, Budapest, Krakow, Ljubljana, Prague, Riga, Sofia, Tallinn, Vilnius, Warsaw, and Zagreb. A random sample post from Zagreb, Croatia: Hrelić Flea Market – The Aleph of Zagreb; from Bucharest, Romania: The Haunted House – Armenian Neighbourhood; from Sofia, Bulgaria: Nissim – A True Old-School Bookstore.
7 January 2012
Russia
Bolot of eYakutia writes about and posts a selection of photos and video of the Yakutian ethno-rock band “103″ (their Facebook page [ru] is here).
I have just had some news about Iaiá, from Alcinéia. She did another jump at...