Global Voices Online

A brief update on Belarus - including the recent gay pride parade in Minsk - at Eternal Remont.

Window on Eurasia writes about the 40th anniversary of the launch of the Soviet samizdat publication, the Chronicle of Current Events.

Window on Eurasia writes about “Chernobyl's other victims” - “the thousands of people who exposed themselves to extraordinarily high levels of radiation while taking part in the clean up” and who now “find themselves not only sick as a result but largely forgotten by the successor governments to the regime which ordered them there without the protective gear they needed.”

Eternal Remont links to a new blog whose aim is to draw attention to Emanuel Zeltser's case: FREE Emanuel Zeltser and Vladlena Funk - Illegally Imprisoned in Belarus Since March 12, 2008.

Pictures from an exhibition on the Soviet refuseniks at the Museum of the Jewish Diaspora in Tel Aviv - by LJ user mozgovaya (Israeli journalist Natasha Mozgovaya). (Text in Russian.)

Daily EM reports on BarCamp Baltics.

Marginalia watches Ploshcha (”The Square”), a film about the March 2006 mass protests in Minsk - “and watching it is a good way to mark Ceauşescu's birthday and Suharto's death” - and muses on freedom in Latvia and the lack of it in Belarus.

Mark MacKinnon writes about Mikhail Kasyanov's failed attempt to run for president and provides “an incomplete list of the invalid signatures phenomenon in post-Soviet elections.”