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February 14th, 2007

Latvia: “Halves”

Veronica Khokhlova · 17:31

Peteris Cedrins, a Latvia-based blogger who took this picture of a house in Daugavpils, writes: One house, two worlds. Many of the older houses in Daugavpils are being transmogrified by cheap plastic windows, poor cores wrapped in the dull facades of a poor and tasteless modernity. Daugavpils is the second-largest Latvian city, ... 2 comments · »»

September 20th, 2006

Eastern Europe: Video documents homophobia on the rise

Sameer Padania · 12:30

lingua → zht · zhs

The latest twist in the long-running saga of anti-gay violence and state oppression took place yesterday in Moscow, as an appeals court upheld the earlier lower court ruling to ban Moscow's Gay Pride March in May 2006. The gay rights activists who brought the case will now attempt to ... 1 comment · »»

August 29th, 2006

Russian-Language Blogs: Miscellanea (3)

Veronica Khokhlova · 15:59

Israeli blogger pilka writes (RUS) about a surreal experience of eating next to three clowns at a hospital in the wartime Haifa: [...] I had breakfast with clowns today. I work at the children's department, okay? So strange, a clown on the right, a clown on the left, a vegetable salad ... 1 comment · »»

August 19th, 2006

Former Soviet Union: 15 Years Since the August Coup

Veronica Khokhlova · 08:40

lingua → es

Today is 15 years since the beginning of the events that some people consider (RUS) Russia's Orange Revolution - but which are better known as the August Putsch. This year, on August 20 and 21, memorial services will be held in Moscow for Dmitry Komar, Ilya Krichevsky and Vladimir Usov, ... 2 comments · »»

Links

May 13th, 2008

Latvian Abroad writes on how Latvia's biggest supermarket chain “has shot itself in a foot.”

Latvian Abroad writes about Latvian hockey and hockey fans - here and here.

April 30th, 2008

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

April 17th, 2008

Itching for Eestimaa interviews “Estonian blogger Flasher T, author of the lively Antyx.”

April 11th, 2008

Peteris Cedrins of Marginalia is one of the 213,000 people who “signed in favor of amendments to […] Latvia's Constitution, that would make it possible for the people to initiate the dissolution of Parliament”: “Still, I signed… because I trust our people — our nation — a lot more than I trust our so-called elite.”

April 10th, 2008

Marginalia muses about “the state of the nation.”

Baltic writes about Riga's Southern Bridge, which could “bring Latvia into the Guinness book of records for the greatest amount of misspent public funds.”

March 28th, 2008

Baltic writes in depth on “a strong possibility for holding two referendums in Latvia this year.”