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July 5th, 2008

Russia: Farewell to “Khrushchevki”

Veronica Khokhlova · 00:47

lingua → fr · mg

Earlier this week, LJ user drugoi, one of the most popular and prolific Russian bloggers, posted 17 photos from a Moscow neighborhood of Khrushchev-era apartment blocks, commonly known as khrushchevki, pyatietazhki, or khrushchoby. The neighborhood is about to disappear, to make room for more up-to-date residential high-rises. Below is some of the text that accompanies drugoi's photos, and a few of the 331 comments that the post has generated. 2 comments · »»

July 2nd, 2008

Ukraine: Grassroots Activism

Veronica Khokhlova · 22:49

lingua → fr

Many Ukrainians, fed up with a culture of lawlessness that is flourishing in their country, are becoming increasingly involved in grassroots activism. One of the latest rallies - Velonayizd ("Bicycle Attack") - took place in Kyiv on June 21, when nearly 500 cyclists, bikers and pedestrians gathered in front of the municipal police headquarters for a Critical Mass-type event, prompted by the recent deaths of at least two cyclists and the authorities' failure to bring the perpetrators to justice. 2 comments · »»

June 21st, 2008

Venezuela: Government Halts Proposed Education and Intelligence Policy Changes

Luis Carlos Diaz · 20:09

lingua → es

In 2007, when President Hugo Chávez announced that he was going to begin the “5 engines for the construction of socialism in Venezuela,” he did not know that one year later that he would be changing speeds or in some cases, going in reverse. This is part 1 in a series of articles about some of these changes in education and intelligence policies. 4 comments · »»

June 16th, 2008

Palestine: Obama on Jerusalem as Undivided

Jillian York · 17:02

lingua → bn · es

Barack Obama's pledge on June 11th to AIPAC that Jerusalem should be Israel's undivided capital has angered Palestinian officials. President Mahmoud Abbas made a statement that Obama's pledge is "totally rejected," while Saeb Erekat, an Abbas aide, said that Palestinian negotiators would continue to insist upon East Jerusalem as ... 3 comments · »»

Bosnia & Herzegovina, Serbia: Top war crimes suspect Župljanin arrested

Elia Varela Serra · 12:52

lingua → it

Stojan Župljanin, one of the four top remaining war crimes suspects from the 1990s Balkan Wars wanted by the International War Crimes Tribunal for Former Yugoslavia (ICTY), was arrested on Wednesday near Belgrade. The ICTY had been seeking Župljanin since 1999, and the US government had even offered a reward of up to $5 million for information leading to Zupljanin's arrest or conviction. The Balkan blogosphere has been abuzz with the news. 0 comments · »»

Japan: Reflections on the Akiba Massacre (Part 2)

Chris Salzberg · 10:47

lingua → it

The massacre on June 8th in Tokyo's Akihabara district sparked heated debates in Japanese blogs about the limits of citizen media. Two Ustream users who were on at the scene just after the killing shot live footage of victims of the knife attacks, images that were was streamed onto the Internet and attracted as many as 3000 viewers before going down. While many have criticized the decision to stream the images live from the scene, others have described what happened as inevitable. 2 comments · »»

June 12th, 2008

Brazil: Judges can't tell YouTube from U2

Paula Góes · 18:18

lingua → pt · mk · es

The Brazilian Superior Electoral Court held yesterday a session to conclude the resolution regulating the use of the Internet in the 2008 local elections campaign later this year. According to Judge George Marmelstein, who watched the session in person, "Youtube was turned into U2" by the ill-informed judges in charge. 3 comments · »»

June 10th, 2008

Japan: The problems facing Japan's IT industry

Taku Nakajima · 12:57

lingua → jp · fr · it

An article in the New York Times a few weeks ago, describing a chronic shortage of engineers in Japan, received support from many Japanese bloggers. The article explains that young people in Japanare more interested nowadays with fields like finance or medicine, or creative careers like the arts, then they are with engineering, with one estimate putting the shortage of engineers at almost half a million. 3 comments · »»

Links about Law

July 6th, 2008

Indonesian police have launched a nationwide manhunt for two top terror suspects behind the latest deadly bombings in Bali. SPH purple reporters provide key background information about the activities of the suspects.

In the Weng'an mass incident investigation, the murder suspect claimed that he was doing press-up in the bridge when the 15-years old girl jumped down to the river. Many netizens started to spoof about the term “press-up”, and now it has become a sensitive term in may portal websites according to lipuman.

Mmd Russia Blog draws attention to a recent report on the Krasnodar region and the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics.

July 5th, 2008

Russian Cyberspace posts an update about a Russian blogger on trial and internet censorship.

July 4th, 2008

Anegdote reports that Croatia's Feral Tribune “is no more.”

LimbicNutrition Weblog writes about the case of Miladin Kovacevic: “‘Who the hell is Miladin Kovacevic,' you might ask, ‘A war criminal?' Not quite, he is a Serb college basketball player involved in the horrific beating of a fellow student in a New York State town who was then helped to escape the USA and return to Serbia by a Serbian diplomat.”

The Shaanxi government has finally finished the investigative report on the Souther Tiger photogate and the farmer photographer is to take up all the blame for cheating the public. ESWN translated two follow up discussions on the scandal: Why Didn't “Tiger Photo Gate” Wake Officials Up? and Tiger Zhou and the Reporters.