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Global Voices Online Saturday, October 29, 2011 In September 2008, Ukraine seemed headed towards signing an Association Agreement with the European Union the following year, in 2009. Three years later, in 2011, the Agreement has still not been concluded. The latest obstacle to finalizing the process is the Oct. 11 sentencing of former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko. A resolution passed by the

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Global Voices Online Thursday, August 11, 2011 Pasha Kyshtymov, a lifelong patient of a psycho-neurological internat on the border of Krasnoyarsk and Irkutsk regions of Siberia, cannot communicate through speech, but had no problems learning to express himself through photography. Russian photographer Oleg Klimov, who visited the internat with colleagues earlier this summer and took some

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Global Voices Online Sunday, May 29, 2011 The May 28 Moscow Pride event - banned by the city authorities on May 17 - did not go smoothly: according to news reports, at least 18 gay rights activists and 14 of their opponents were detained by the police, at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier on Manezhnaya Square and, later, in front of the Mayor's Office on Tverskaya Street. This was the sixth

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Global Voices Online Thursday, April 28, 2011 Moscow-based LJ user av-strannik (Aleksandr Strannik) arrived at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in mid-August of 1986, some four months after the April 26 blast at Reactor #4, to assist in the clean-up effort as a ventilation engineer. By that time, "all the most dangerous work had been done by the [liquidators]," he wrote [ru] on his blog on

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Global Voices Online Thursday, January 27, 2011 In the aftermath of the Jan. 24 suicide bombing at Moscow's Domodedovo Airport, which killed at least 35 people and left over 100 wounded, some Russophone bloggers are once again discussing the ominous patterns that grow more and more obvious with each new major terror attack in Russia. LJ user dolboeb posed two questions (RUS) to his readers on

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Global Voices Online Sunday, December 19, 2010 December 19, the 2010 presidential election day in Belarus, ended in mass protests, arrests and violent clashes with the riot police in Minsk, the capital of Belarus. Aleksandr Lukashenko, who has served as the President of Belarus since July 1994, ran against nine opposition candidates, some of whom are now reported to have been attacked or

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Global Voices Online Tuesday, November 30, 2010 While other regions feature a lot more prominently in the collection of U.S. embassy cables published by WikiLeaks thus far, a few countries of the CEE region do appear in the kickoff edition of Cablegate. Below is a small selection of initial reactions from the region's bloggers. Piran Café, a Slovenian blog, announced the Cablegate "winner"

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Global Voices Online Saturday, October 9, 2010 Back in April 2010, Brian Whitmore of RFE/RL's The Power Vertical wrote this about Moscow mayor Yuri Luzhkov's complex relationship with the Kremlin: It's hard to imagine Moscow being run by anybody but Yury Luzhkov. But then again, it was hard to imagine Tatarstan being run by anybody other than Mintimer Shaimiyev -- until, of course, somebody

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Global Voices Online Saturday, September 11, 2010 A suicide car bombing outside a market in Vladikavkaz, the capital of the Republic of North Ossetia-Alania, killed at least 18 people and wounded over 100 on Sept. 9. The attack is not the first one to occur at this location (62 people were killed there in 1999, 12 in 2008); it also came just days after the sixth anniversary of the 2004 school

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Global Voices Online Saturday, September 4, 2010 The first anniversary of the Beslan tragedy, 2005. Photo by Natasha Mozgovaya Agunda Vataeva (LJ user agunya) was a 13-year-old girl about to begin her ninth-grade studies on Sept. 1, 2004, the day when she, her mother and more than 1,100 others were taken hostage at School #1 in the North Ossetian town of Beslan. She survived the three-day

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Global Voices Online Wednesday, August 18, 2010 Anglophone Russia bloggers have been discussing social and political aspects of the catastrophic wildfires and the ongoing firefighting efforts in central Russia since early August. Below is a selection of their views. In an Aug. 4 post, Streetwise Professor noted that, for a number of reasons, Russia lacked much of what was needed for "effective

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Global Voices Online Sunday, August 1, 2010 Hundreds of forest and peat fires are raging across central Russia; thousands of people are being evacuated from the affected areas, and, sadly, there are reports of human casualties (at least 28, as of now). In the video below, shot on July 26 in the village of Ulyishchi, 5 km away from the town of Kulebaki in Nizhny Novgorod region, a woman is

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Global Voices Online Thursday, April 29, 2010 On April 27, 236 Ukrainian MPs (UKR) voted in favor of the ratification of an agreement allowing Russia to extend the lease on its Black Sea naval base until 2042. In exchange, Ukraine would get discounts on Russia's natural gas "worth $40 billion over 10 years." The ratification of the gas-for-fleet deal took place in a chaotic setting. Among other

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Global Voices Online Tuesday, April 6, 2010 Flowers at Park Kultury subway station in Moscow - April 3, 2010 (image by Veronica Khokhlova) Olga Allenova (LJ user allenova) is a special correspondent for the Kommersant daily, author of Chechnya is Close: War Through the Eyes of a Woman (RUS), a collection of the 1999-2007 war reportage from Russia's North Caucasus region. In the blog post (RUS)

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Global Voices Online Monday, April 5, 2010 It's been a week since the March 29 bombings on the Moscow subway, which killed 40 people and left over 100 injured. Below is a sampling from an ongoing discussion by Russophone bloggers. LJ user matiutia wrote (RUS) about an encounter with Moscow police officers on the day of the attacks: I'm on my way to work. One subway station is closed. I move to

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Global Voices Online Saturday, March 27, 2010 In Russia this week it has been hard to miss the two scandals that, at first, appear to have only one thing in common: both are centered around amateur videos published online. What they also share is, perhaps, the feeling of incredulity and disgust that the viewers are left with upon watching the videos, and, in many cases, the outrage. One scandal

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Global Voices Online Wednesday, March 24, 2010 Numerous volunteers and fishing protection agency employees worked hard for over a month this past winter, breaking the unusually thick ice that covered the Kyiv Reservoir, enriching the water with oxygen - in order to save the fish in the reservoir from suffocating. When in early March the ecological emergency seemed to have almost passed, it

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Global Voices Online Sunday, February 14, 2010 Sergei Magnitsky, a 37-year-old Russian tax lawyer, died in a Moscow prison on Nov. 16, 2009, after spending nearly a year in pre-trial detention with no access to adequate medical treatment. The circumstances of his death received extensive coverage both in Russia (RUS) and abroad (ENG). Letters and appeals he wrote from prison were published as

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Global Voices OnlineThursday, February 4, 2010In the text below (UKR; Russian translation by LJ user grosman is here) , Lviv-based LJ user dali_bude mocks Ukrainian state bureaucracy and red tape, describing what it would be like to do a Google search if Google were a Ukrainian state-owned company. There are nearly 60 comments to this post, and most readers find the parody hilarious, albeit a bit

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Global Voices OnlineThursday, January 22, 2010Some of the online conversations about this year's Ukrainian presidential candidates appear to be somewhat lacking in substance. This, in part, can be explained by the fact that the most popular of these politicians have been around for quite a while and there isn't much left to discuss about them. There's also certain voter fatigue, as well as the

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Global Voices OnlineWednesday, January 20, 2010Ukrainians went to the polls on Sunday, Jan. 17, to choose their president from the 18 candidates running for the post this year. According to the election commission (UKR), opposition leader Victor Yanukovich received 35.32% of the vote, while prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko is in second place, with 25.05%. As neither won 50% of the vote, they face

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Global Voices OnlineSaturday, December 19, 2009Yegor Gaidar, a Russian economist and politician who initiated the 1992 "shock therapy" reforms following the collapse of the Soviet Union, died on Wednesday in Moscow at the age of 53. Initial reports said the cause of death was a blood clot; on Dec. 17, Maria Gaidar, Yegor Gaidar's daughter, announced on her blog (RUS) that it had been a heart

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Global Voices OnlineSaturday, December 12, 2009Sergei Maximishin (LJ user remetalk), an award-winning Russian photographer, has recently tried to get the Ukrainian defense ministry's assistance in doing a photo story on the Ukrainian navy and army for the German Stern. He and his colleague, Stern's correspondent Tilman Müller, ended up defeated by the Ukrainian bureaucratic monster. On his blog,

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Global Voices OnlineFriday, December 11, 2009Russian photojournalist Oleg Klimov has recently spent two hours waiting for a train at the train station in Syzran, a city in Russia's Samara region. While there, he interacted with a few locals and then jotted down their stories of extreme poverty (RUS) on his blog.Story #1:[...] Mother, her daughter, and grandson, aged 5 or so. Have been living at

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Global Voices OnlineSunday, December 6, 2009At least 109 people died and more than 130 were injured Friday night in a fire caused by the ignition of a pyrotechnic display, and in the resulting stampede, at the Lame Horse nightclub in the city of Perm. In an earlier GV analysis of the citizen and mainstream media coverage of the Perm tragedy, Gregory Asmolov has translated two of the nearly

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Global Voices OnlineSaturday, November 28, 2009An express train traveling from Moscow to St. Petersburg derailed at 9:34 PM on Friday, Nov. 27, near the town of Bologoye, killing at least 25 people and injuring 87; as of 4 AM Saturday, 32 passengers are reported missing. The #166 train, known as the Neva Express, was carrying over 600 passengers in its 14 carriages; three rear carriages have

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Global Voices OnlineFriday, November 20, 2009Winter is yet to arrive in much of Europe, but one of its geopolitical attributes is already back in the spotlight: fears of disruptions of natural gas deliveries from Russia seem to be growing more intense, due to the recurring dispute between Russia and Ukraine.Politics aside, however, in some of Russia's regions winter has been there since around

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Global Voices OnlineTuesday, November 10, 2009GV's H1N1 Outbreak 2009 special coverage page is here. Last week's coverage of the flu epidemics in Ukraine: Oct. 31; Nov. 1; Nov. 2; Nov. 3; Nov. 4; Nov. 6; Nov. 7.According to Ukraine's Health Ministry (UKR), 1,031,597 people in Ukraine have fallen ill with "flu, acute respiratory illness and their complications (pneumonia, etc.)" between Oct. 29

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Global Voices OnlineSaturday, October 31, 2009The past three weeks in Ukraine have been very intense. First, a child sex abuse scandal broke out on Oct. 13, involving, among others, three members of PM Yulia Tymoshenko's parliament faction (to learn more, read this article at Abdymok and this Kyiv Post editorial). A week later, on Oct. 19, the presidential campaign officially kicked off, with the

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Global Voices OnlineFriday, October 23, 2009It is, of course, an exaggeration, but back in September and early October, it seemed as if every single Russian blogger took the time to write something about the re-naming of Anti-Soviet Shish Kebab Restaurant in Moscow, dissident journalist Aleksandr Podrabinek's protest article (RUS, Kerkko Paananen's English translation is posted at A Step At A

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Global Voices OnlineMonday, October 19, 2009Reports of vote-rigging in the local elections, which took place in 75 of Russia’s 83 regions on Oct. 11, spurred protests by citizens and politicians in the Russian capital - and quite an outrage among some of the country's bloggers. In Moscow, the United Russia party, led by PM Vladimir Putin, took 32 of 35 seats in the city legislature; the only

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Global Voices OnlineTuesday, October 6, 2009Journalist Anna Politkovskaya was assassinated on Oct. 7, 2006. This coming Wednesday, a memorial rally is scheduled to take place outside Chistyye Prudy subway station in Moscow. (Past GV coverage of Anna Politkovskaya's murder: 2006 - here and here; 2007 - here; 2008 - here.)A note (RUS) announcing the memorial rally was initially posted on the site

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Global Voices OnlineThursday, October 2, 2009The presidential election in Ukraine is scheduled for Jan. 17, 2010, and although the official registration of candidates does not begin until Oct. 20, most of the key players have already started their campaigns. In the Ukrainian blogosphere, there is no shortage of posts on pre-election politics, but bloggers who exhibit genuine trust in the nation's

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Global Voices OnlineThursday, September 17, 2009On Wednesday, LJ user drugoi re-posted two Reuters photos of Belgian farmers spraying their fields with fresh milk in protest over low milk prices, and summarized the situation this way (RUS):[...] Belgian farmers, drawn to despair by low prices offered for their produce, decided that it was more profitable for them to dump 3 million liters of milk

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Global Voices OnlineSunday, August 9, 2009A year ago, the Russo-Georgian war coincided with the 2008 Beijing Olympics, diverting some of the public attention from the peaceful sporting event. This week, cyber attacks on LiveJournal, Twitter and Facebook, targeting Tbilisi-based LJ/Twitter/Facebook user cyxymu, have added an extra dimension to the coverage of the first anniversary of the war - and

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Global Voices OnlineFriday, July 31, 2009Some 100 protesters gathered for an unsanctioned opposition rally in central Moscow on Friday. At 6 PM, hundreds of riot police broke up the rally, detaining 47 people, some of whom were said to be journalists and passerby.LJ user zyalt posted a quick yet vivid photo report (RUS) from the rally (35 photos). Here is some of what he wrote:[...] Once again

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Global Voices OnlineSaturday, July 25, 2009A number of studies of the Russian blogosphere and internet use have been produced in the past by various entities. Russian-Cyberspace.org, an LJ blog (ENG) of the Russian Cyberspace Project, is a good place to learn about some of the work being done in this field; also, here's a report (ENG, .pdf file, 5.4 MB) titled Not Quite Samizdat: a Look at the

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Global Voices OnlineSaturday, June 13, 2009LJ user rusanalit, a popular Russian blogger known for his often provocative posts on the Russian economy, published this mock manifesto (RUS) on his blog on June 10, noting with irony that those who attempt a critical look at Russia's past and present are frequently labeled Russophobes by those who consider themselves patriots, while in fact the

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Global Voices OnlineThursday, June 11, 2009Earlier this month, Russian social networking portal Habrahabr.ru featured photos and some translated text (RUS) from the May 30 Wall Street Journal piece on the online presence of the U.S. homeless - On the Street and On Facebook: The Homeless Stay Wired. The original English-language story has generated 93 comments. On Habrahabr.ru, there are currently

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Global Voices OnlineSunday, June 7, 2009A month or so ago, LJ user voinodel (Russian journalist Vadim Rechkalov) started a second LJ blog (voynodel) and announced (RUS) that he would use it for writing "unhurried posts" there. So far, Rechkalov has posted twice on this new blog. The first text is about the funeral of one of the victims of a Moscow police officer who shot at least three people to

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Global Voices OnlineSunday, May 31, 2009Last December, Sinisa Boljanovic translated a number of heartrending childbirth stories, written anonymously by Serbian women and posted on the "Mother Courage" award-winning site, launched and maintained by Serbian blogger Branka Stamenkovic/Krugolina Borup.Earlier this month, LJ user germanych, a Russian blogger, asked his readers to share their

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Global Voices OnlineFriday, May 29, 2009On May 13, 2009, a Subaru Forester car hit a pregnant woman who was crossing the street in Moscow. She died in hospital later. The perpetrator escaped the scene of the crime, but eye-witnesses remembered his license plate number. He turned out to be an off-duty police officer. On May 21, he was still not apprehended. On that day, the victim's husband,

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Global Voices OnlineThursday, May 28, 2009About a month ago, Jost A Mon blog posted a “roundup of translated crime fiction consumed in April” - which included several books by writers from Central and Eastern Europe.Below is a displeased Russian blogger's blitz review (RUS) of John Grisham's 21st novel, The Associate:LJ user dolboeb/Anton Nossik - May 24, 2009I've read Grisham's latest thriller,

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Global Voices OnlineThursday, May 28, 2009Renowned Russian actor Oleg Yankovsky died in Moscow at the age of 65 on May 20 and was buried at Novodevichy Cemetery two days later. Thousands of fans came to the Lenkom Theater to bid farewell to him. LJ user drugoi re-posted AP photos from the memorial event, and LJ user leosat wrote this (RUS) about it:Half an hour ago, they carried the coffin out

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Global Voices OnlineMonday, May 25, 2009LJ user liza-valieva - North Ossetian journalist Liza Valieva - writes (RUS) about an incident that could have prompted a lighthearted reaction had it not occurred in North Ossetia, an autonomous republic in the North Caucasus region of the Russian Federation, whose people have seen much violence since the collapse of the Soviet Union, including the Sept.

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Global Voices OnlineSunday, May 24, 2009In the Cyrillic sector of the LiveJournal universe, the number of readers - "friends" - subscribed to a blog is one of the factors that determines its popularity (or "authority"). Bloggers who have at least a thousand "friends" are called tysyachniki (from the Russian word tysyacha, "a thousand"), and, depending on the quality of the blog's content, this is

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Global Voices OnlineTuesday, May 19, 2009May 18 marked the 65th anniversary of Sürgün, the 1944 deportations of Crimean Tatars from their homeland in Crimea.J. Otto Pohl wrote about the history of the deportations, and here is an excerpt from his post:On 18 May 1944, the Soviet NKVD began the systematic round up and deportation of nearly the entire Crimean Tatar population from their ancestral

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Global Voices OnlineFriday, May 8, 2009Below are some of the Central and Eastern Europe bloggers' reactions to news reports on swine flu and measures taken by some of the governments to keep the disease from spreading to their countries.Blogging Balkanistan and other Eccentricities turns to history and posts an excerpt from an eyewitness account of the Thessaloniki plague epidemic of 1724,

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Global Voices OnlineThursday, April 30, 2009On April 20, it was announced that President Dmitry Medvedev approved the changes to children's rights law, allowing regional authorities to bar minors under the age of 18, unaccompanied by parents or legal guardians, from public places - "for example, in the street, stadiums, parks, squares, public transport and Internet cafes" - from 10 PM to 6 AM.

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Global Voices OnlineSunday, April 26, 2009LJ user sabeloff posts pictures of the ruined remains of a seaside young pioneer camp in Odesa and shares the recent history of the place (RUS) - which, unfortunately, is a rather common sight in today's Ukraine:[...] This is an old summer camp near the 13th Station of the Bolshoi Fontan in Odesa. It's totally deserted, which is surprising, because all

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Global Voices OnlineMonday, April 20, 2009Below is a follow-up to the three earlier GV posts (here, here, and here) on the blog coverage of the protests and rioting in Chisinau, Moldova, that followed the April 5 election. Lyndon of Scraps of Moscow flew to Moldova's capital shortly after the violent events of Tuesday, April 7, and wrote this on his return:[...] Although I missed the real action

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Global Voices OnlineThursday, April 9, 2009For all the attention given to the impact of social media on the protests in Moldova (earlier GV posts on that here and here), there were people both in and outside Moldova who felt that media coverage of the events was inadequate.Mihai Moscovici wrote this on Twitter on Tuesday, when the rioting in Chisinau was at its height:People in Moldova don't know

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Global Voices OnlineThursday, April 9, 2009Day 3 of the post-election protests in Moldova's capital turned out to be comparatively quiet. Mihai Moscovici wrote this on Twitter on Wednesday morning:No crowds today. Very few protesters now in the main square in Chisinau, Moldova [...]And here is one of Moscovici's latest tweets, posted early morning Thursday:No protesters in the main square in

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Global Voices OnlineWednesday, April 8, 2009Peaceful protests that took place in Moldova's capital Chisinau on Monday, following the victory of the ruling Communist Party in the April 5 election, turned violent on Tuesday, as protesters stormed and set fire to the parliament building. Lyndon of Scraps of Moscow has been posting updates and translations of the blog, Twitter and media coverage of

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Global Voices OnlineSunday, April 5, 2009According to some sources, Sulim Yamadayev, former Chechen rebel commander and former commander of the Russian Vostok ("East") Battalion, was assassinated in Dubai on March 28. According to other sources, he survived the shooting. (More background info - here, at RFE/RL's Caucasus Report.)Below is a selection of Russophone bloggers' reactions to the

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Global Voices OnlineThursday, April 2, 2009What one saw in this April 1 post (RUS) by LJ user drugoi looked like an April Fool's Day joke at first - a Photoshop prank, most likely: a photo of a statue of Vladimir Lenin in St. Petersburg, the Bolshevik leader's back to the Finland Train Station, with a huge hole torn in the lower part of his bronze overcoat. But the photo was taken by AP's Dmitry

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Global Voices OnlineSunday, March 22, 2009Regional council election in the western Ukrainian region of Ternopil took place on March 15, following much political drama. Ukrainian parliament set the date for the snap election on Dec. 18, 2008 (UKR). On March 3, 2009, 141 MPs from Yulia Tymoshenko's Bloc (BYuT) and 147 MPs from Victor Yanukovych's Party of Regions voted to cancel the election. One

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Global Voices OnlineFriday, March 13, 2009On March 6, in Geneva, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton gave Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov a small box containing a red "reset" button with the Russian word peregruzka printed on it, which was meant as a symbol of better relations between the United States and Russia. But the Russian word for 'reset' is perezagruzka, while peregruzka means

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Global Voices OnlineThursday, March 12, 2009The controversy caused by Georgia's Eurovision Song Contest entry seems to be over (or, depending on one's perspective, has reached its climax), now that Georgia has decided not to take part in this year's event in Moscow, following the European Broadcasting Union's demand that the lyrics of the 'We Don't Wanna Put In' song are either changed or a

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Global Voices OnlineMonday, March 9, 2009Below is a partial translation of a post (RUS) on health care in Russia - a caustic "unsent letter" to the Russian president, written by LJ user sobe-panek on Feb. 22. The post has made it into the Top 30 at Yandex Blogs portal and was picked up by some Russian media.[...] There is a town called Yelets in Lipetsk region. And there is the City Hospital #1

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Global Voices OnlineSaturday, March 7, 2009This has been a pretty turbulent week in Ukraine: on Tuesday, the parliament fired Volodymyr Ohryzko, Ukraine’s foreign affairs minister, and on Wednesday, riot police stormed the Kyiv headquarters of Naftogaz, the Ukrainian national energy company.Ukrainiana wrote this about the foreign affairs minister situation:The Verkhovna Rada Tuesday fired

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Global Voices OnlineSaturday, March 7, 2009U.S. president Barack Obama is planning to visit Great Britain, France, Germany and the Czech Republic next month, during his first trip to Europe since taking office. In a post titled "They all want to meet him," P O Neill of A Fistful of Euros writes this about the upcoming visit:An interesting wrinkle for those who care about summitry: Barack Obama’s

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Global Voices OnlineMonday, March 2, 2009Paul Goble of Window on Eurasia reported on Feb. 24 that Russia’s emergency situations minister Sergei Shoigu said the Russian parliament should "make the denial of the Soviet Union’s victory in World War II a crime in order to ensure that 'the presidents of certain countries who deny this won’t be able to visit our country without punishment'.”Goble wrote

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Global Voices OnlineWednesday, February 25, 2009Ukrainian president Victor Yushchenko has an official Twitter account now: there's a Twitter link on the righthand sidebar of his official website (UKR) (the Russian- and English-language pages haven't been updated yet, however). The president's tweets (UKR) mirror daily schedule announcements and latest news items that are featured on the official

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Global Voices OnlineTuesday, February 24, 2009In this post (RUS), which has generated over a hundred comments and is now listed as the 4th most popular item on Yandex Blogs, LJ user alek-ya explains what a "Russophone Ukrainian nationalist" is:Hard to believe that it is possible, but such people do exist. I'm one of them, I may say. [...]* These are the people who often spend their whole lives

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Global Voices OnlineWednesday, February 11, 2009Marian Cozma, a Romanian handball player, was killed in a nightclub fight in Veszprém, Hungary, on Feb. 8. Here's some of what's been written by bloggers about the circumstances of Cozma's death.Eva Balogh of Hungarian Spectrum:Saturday night the members of the Veszprém handball team decided to have a celebratory night out. One of their colleagues,

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Global Voices OnlineSunday, February 8, 2009According to this roundup that appeared on Robert Amsterdam's blog on Feb. 6, the past week hasn't been too peaceful in Moscow and Moscow region:[...] A former deputy mayor of Grozny was gunned down early yesterday morning in western Moscow in what authorities said appeared to be a contract murder. Yuri Grachev, the 72-year-old editor-in-chief of a [

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Global Voices OnlineSunday, February 8, 2009According to a poll carried out last month, Ukraine's president Victor Yushchenko "would have won less than 2.9% of the vote if the presidential elections were held in late December 2008 or early January 2009." Among reasons for such low approval ratings is "the relentless infighting" between the president and PM Yulia Tymoshenko.On Feb. 5, Tymoshenko's

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Global Voices OnlineSunday, February 1, 2009It was sunny in Moscow on Jan. 31, with temperatures around minus 14 degree Celsius/7 degrees Fahrenheit, but despite the cold, the city saw a number of anti-government rallies - and some fighting. Below are a few accounts, some photos, videos, and links.LJ user drugoi posted nine photos from the opposition rally on Bolshaya Polyanka and wrote this (RUS

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Global Voices OnlineThursday, January 29, 2009Aleksandr Glukhov, a 21-year-old Russian conscript, has asked for asylum in the Republic of Georgia to escape the "unbearable conditions" in the Russian army. One of Glukhov's media appearances took place as he was dining at a McDonald's restaurant in Tbilisi. Russian officials claim that Glukhov was captured by Georgian armed forces in South Ossetia,

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Global Voices OnlineThursday, January 22, 2009Dmitry Kostyukov (LJ user kostyukov), a Russian photojournalist, is currently on assignment in Israel. In August 2008, he was covering the war in South Ossetia, and here is a 6-minute slideshow of the photos he took there:Since he posted this selection on his blog while already in Israel, one of his readers asked an obvious question (RUS):

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Global Voices OnlineTuesday, January 20, 2009Russian human rights lawyer Stanislav Markelov, 34, was shot to death Jan. 19 as he walked from a news conference along Prechistenka Street in central Moscow. Journalist Anastasia Baburova, 25, who accompanied Markelov, was also shot as she tried to intervene; she died in hospital a few hours later.Baburova was a freelance journalist for Novaya

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Global Voices OnlineSaturday, January 17, 2009In his post about the Jan. 13 peaceful anti-government protest followed by rioting in Riga, Aleks Tapinsh of All About Latvia wrote that Ivars Godmanis, the Latvian PM, had "told the people in his New Year’s Eve address how penguins deal with severe winter - they huddle together to stay warm - the same way as Latvians ought to do when going through

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Global Voices OnlineMonday, January 12, 2009There's a myriad of posts on the war in Gaza in the Russophone blogosphere right now, with the whole spectrum of opinions well-represented by Israeli and non-Israeli bloggers alike. The text (RUS) translated below, however, is not about the ongoing conflict. On Jan. 8, Tel Aviv-based LJ user leorer (Leonid Rabin) took a step aside and posted his notes

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Global Voices OnlineMonday, December 22, 2008Below is a selection of recent posts from English-language blogs on the political and economic crisis in Ukraine. (An earlier post on the financial crisis in Russia is here, and in other countries of Central and Eastern Europe - here.)Michelle Knisley of Greetings from Kyiv writes that because of the crisis the atmosphere in the Ukrainian capital has

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Global Voices OnlineSunday, December 21, 2008In mid-October, Global Voices published a roundup of Anglophone bloggers' views on the financial crisis in Hungary, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Serbia and Ukraine. Below is another installment on the effects and the likely consequences of the crisis in Russia.Edward Hugh of Eastern Europe Economy Watch examines the figures and concludes that "Russia's

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Global Voices OnlineFriday, December 19, 2008Below is a selection of some recent posts from the Estonian blogosphere.Itching for Eestimaa writes about Estonian women who survived the deportations of the 1940s, but whose tragic stories never found a reflection in the Soviet-time Estonian women's magazine, Nõukogude Naine:[...] These women are no different than the young women of today, except life

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Global Voices OnlineThursday, December 18, 2008Below is a selection of recent posts by bloggers from around Central and Eastern Europe on social networking, participatory media, online activism and other related issues.Eternal Remont writes about Russian businessman Oleg Teterin, who claims to have trademarked the ;-) emoticon:[...] Seeing that the Russian patent agency will grant a trademark for

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Global Voices OnlineWednesday, December 3, 2008IZO translates from Russian LJ user avmalgin's observation (RUS) on Moscow's changing ethnic composition:The benches on Tsvetnoi Boulevard are covered with inscriptions: "I love you, Rustamchik. Gyuzel." "Renat+Ainara=Love", everything in the same vein. Not a single Russian name. I went through them all, from one end to the other. Early on a Sunday

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Global Voices OnlineSaturday, November 22nd, 2008On Nov. 15, Slovak prime minister Robert Fico and his Hungarian counterpart, Ferenc Gyurcsány, met in the border town of Komárno, Slovakia, in an attempt to ease nationalist tensions that have escalated due to Nov. 1 football game violence in Dunajská Streda, Slovakia.Eva S. Balogh of Hungarian Spectrum has been blogging a lot recently about the

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Global Voices OnlineTuesday, November 18, 2008Back in October, Ukrainian blogger mazay, who writes for a newly-launched collective LJ blog depo3p, wrote about his attempt to educate a group of Kyiv police officers on harm reduction programs. A translation of mazay's story was featured on Global Voices and on Rising Voices earlier this month.Although the police officers who listened to the harm

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Global Voices OnlineTuesday, November 18, 2008"To me, a different family means people living on the edge of society. These people may have no home, no jobs. They may be doing drugs, their neighbors may hate them, and they may be banned from entering a theater because of their inappropriate looks. But within such families, love and caring relationship still reign [...]."This is how Irina Popova, a

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Global Voices OnlineThursday, November 13, 2008Olive harvesting in Albania, John Paul II monuments in Poland, a Soviet military hardware "cemetery" in Moscow, and more: Central and Eastern Europe-based bloggers share their recent travel observations and photos.Albania- Stepping Stones has posted photos of two elderly Albanian village women: the first one is harvesting olives in "the old-fashioned

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Global Voices OnlineSaturday, November 8, 2008Just hours after Barack Obama won the U.S. presidential election, Russian president Dmitry Medvedev delivered his first address to the Federal Assembly, making statements that grabbed attention both at home and in the West.To Medvedev's proposal to lengthen the presidential term in Russia from four to six years, LJ user oleg-kozyrev responded (RUS):

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Global Voices OnlineThursday, November 6, 2008According to the International HIV/AIDS Alliance, "Ukraine has an estimated [323,000-425,000] injecting drug users and one of the fastest growing HIV epidemics in Europe." Harm reduction initiatives - whose aim, according to the OSI International Harm Reduction Development Program, is to diminish "the individual and social harms associated with drug

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Global Voices OnlineMonday, November 3, 2008The previous GV translation from Russia dealt with how a few committed St. Petersburg bloggers have partially succeeded in relieving the bureaucratic torture that the local elderly people with disabilities were subjected to by the state authorities. By way of a follow-up, here is a story of another bureaucratic ordeal (RUS), shared by LJ user smitrich (

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Global Voices OnlineSunday, November 2, 2008This story (RUS) of bureaucracy, human suffering and online activism in St. Petersburg began when LJ user lassi_'s mother hurt her leg in February 2006:[...] She was taken by an ambulance to [City Hospital #26 on Kostyushko St.], where she spent all the time in the hallway. A room cost 2,500 rubles a day [roughly $100] then. Almost all hallways were

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Global Voices OnlineWednesday, October 29, 2008As of now, 71,250 people have signed an online petition appealing to the Russian president Dmitry Medvedev to pardon Svetlana Bakhmina, a former senior lawyer for Mikhail Khodorkovsky's oil company Yukos, who was arrested in December 2004 and sentenced to 6 1/2 years in prison for embezzlement and tax evasion in April 2006. Bakhmina, 39, is serving

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Global Voices OnlineSaturday, October 25, 2008Ukraine's tumultuous internal politics has long stood in the way of the country's economic development - and even now, at the time of an economic crisis, there seems to be no sign of respite.Throughout the past week, Edward Hugh of Ukraine Economy Watch has been reporting on the repeated downgrades of Ukraine's rankings by Moody's (Oct. 20), Fitch (

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Global Voices OnlineWednesday, October 22, 2008LJ user drugoi's post with beautiful photos from Manhattan (RUS) is currently listed as the Russian blogosphere's most popular one at Yandex Blogs portal. There are over 400 comments so far to this item by one of the most popular and prolific Russian bloggers, and here's a quick, almost random selection of just a couple of them:lamirka:How cool! Too

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Global Voices OnlineThursday, October 16, 2008Below is a roundup of reactions from the Anglophone blogosphere on the ongoing financial crisis in some of the countries of Central and Eastern Europe.HungaryAntal Dániel of Central Europe Activ wrote this on Oct. 13:After major banks and insurance corporations were bailed out by European government, Hungary has become the first member state of the EU

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Global Voices OnlineWednesday, October 15, 2008On Oct. 9, Montenegro and Macedonia recognized Kosovo's independence.Douglas Muir of A Fistful of Euros noted that "coincidentally, this raises the number of countries recognizing to exactly 50." He described the significance of the event in general terms:[...] Macedonia and Montenegro are small countries, but they have outsized importance because (1

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Global Voices OnlineSaturday, October 11, 2008In Moscow, you can buy a bus/trolleybus/tram ticket from the driver and it'll cost you 25 rubles, which is roughly $1. If you buy your tickets at special kiosks, you get a discount. But some people prefer to cheat and ride for free. A ticketless passenger is known as zayats in Russian: a hare. Moscow-based LJ user kozenko described (RUS) a recent

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Global Voices OnlineFriday, October 10, 2008On Oct. 8, president Victor Yushchenko announced the dissolution of the Ukrainian parliament. The snap election - the third parliamentary vote in Ukraine since the 2004 Orange Revolution - has been scheduled for Dec. 7. Here is what some Ukrainian bloggers think of the political situation in their country.LJ user logvynenko wrote this (UKR) about the

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Global Voices OnlineTuesday, October 7, 2008Oct. 7 marks two years since the assassination of journalist Anna Politkovskaya. No one has been jailed for the crime so far, but three men are expected to go to trial soon for their suspected involvement in the murder.Below is a selection of today's commemorative posts from the Russophone blogosphere.LJ user emarinicheva wrote (RUS):Anna Politkovskaya

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Global Voices OnlineThursday, October 2, 2008Over 30,000 Muslims reportedly came to the Moscow Cathedral Mosque for a communal prayer on Sept. 30, the first day of Eid ul-Fitr, a Muslim holiday known in Russia as Uraza Bayram, which marks the end of the month of Ramadan. A fair number of non-Muslim Russian bloggers, however, seemed concerned about the presence of so many Muslims in the Russian

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Global Voices OnlineSaturday, September 27, 2008Last week, Israel-based LJ user avva asked (RUS) his Russophone readers - some of whom are eligible to vote in the upcoming U.S. election - whether they supported Barack Obama or John McCain, and for what reasons. The post generated over 300 comments from bloggers based in the United States, Israel, Canada and Russia. Below are some of the responses

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Global Voices OnlineSunday, September 21, 2008The EU's plan to finalize an Association Agreement with Ukraine in 2009 was made public at the EU-Ukraine Summit in Paris on Sept. 9. The media and bloggers greeted it with mixed reactions."EU offers reassurance to Ukraine," read a BBC headline. "EU offers no promises to hopeful Ukraine," wrote the Irish Times. "EU Makes Positive Noises But Offers

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Global Voices OnlineMonday, September 15, 2008See Global Voices special coverage page on the South Ossetia crisis.Firsthand reports from the conflict zone in the Caucasus continue to appear here and there in the Russophone blogosphere. On Sept. 8, one month since the beginning of the war in South Ossetia and Georgia, Russian photojournalist Oleg Klimov posted his musings (RUS) on what the war

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Global Voices OnlineThursday, August 28, 2008See Global Voices special coverage page on the South Ossetia crisis.Tbilisi-based LJ user shupaka writes this (RUS) about what it feels like to be an ethnic Russian in Tbilisi now:Today once again I've been asked - how do they treat Russians [in Georgia]? Won't it get them in trouble if they speak Russian in Tbilisi?My mother is Russian and my

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