Stories
May 12th, 2008
PangeaDay: an event lived worldwide 
· 04:14
Pangea Day took place Saturday, and people from different parts of the world got together to watch movies and be a part of the worldwide event where movies, speakers and music showed us a bit of life on the other side of the globe, uniting people from all walks of life to believe that we aren't as different as we would believe. It also included a mobile video contest, with an international lineup of winners. 3 comments · »»
April 26th, 2008
PangeaDay: Videos to change the world on May 10th
· 13:26
On May 10th 2008 at 18:00 GMT, 24 films will be broadcast during a 4 hour event. What makes this different is that this event, PangeaDay will be broadcast from six locations worldwide in seven different languages worldwide to be viewed through internet, television or cellphones with one unique purpose: to make each other know about the lives of others and focus on what makes us similar, instead of what makes us different and let us work together towards peace. 6 comments · »»
April 18th, 2008
China: One world, one dream, and one multi-front protest
· 22:50
The Chinese global anti-Carrefour boycott was supposed to begin on May 1, but with tempers flaring over CNN commentator Jack Cafferty's on-air remarks this past week, and a number of other recent incidents, people in a few cities across China decided to get a head start. So too did the Chinese hackers who had been planning a coordinated denial-of-service attack on CNN.com set for April 19. 161 comments · »»
March 21st, 2008
Japan: Rokkasho nuclear reprocessing plant fuels debate
· 15:34
The village of Rokkasho, situated Aomori prefecture in the north of Japan's main island Honshū, hosts a nuclear facility for reprocessing spent nuclear fuel, the first of its kind in Japan. While the scale of this reprocessing plant dwarfs standard nuclear plants, most Japanese citizens have up to recently known little to nothing of its existence. This has started to change recently with demonstrations held in various parts of the country by citizen groups. Bloggers have also picked up this debate, offering varying perspectives on the costs and benefits of the latest development of Japan's nuclear industry. 0 comments · »»
LiveJournal: Bloggers Protest Basic Account Cancellation
· 02:40
February 20th, 2008
Kosovo: Views from the Russophone Blogosphere
· 22:32
February 14th, 2008
Russia: Sergei Dorenko on Badri Patarkatsishvili
· 01:15
February 7th, 2008
Serbia: More Views on Boris Tadic's Re-Election
· 23:55
Links
May 13th, 2008
Unzipped covers the Queen and Prince Philip's first visit to Turkey since 1971. As the official state visit has been taken as signifying the importance of Anglo-Turkish relations, the blog makes reference to concerns that it could also impact on the international campaign to have the 1915 massacre and deportation of Armenians living in the Ottoman Empire recognized as Genocide.
May 9th, 2008
“It is no secret that people are football crazy in Trinidad and Tobago,” writes Discover TnT Blog, adding that “the upcoming friendly match between Trinidad and Tobago and England is already stirring up debate.”
May 3rd, 2008
April 29th, 2008
Unzipped: Gay Armenia reports on the visit to London by Armenia's entry to the Eurovision Song Contest, Sirusho. The blog notes that the young Armenian singer is one of the favorites to win the international song contest.
Unzipped posts video, photographs and an account of a march staged by the London-Armenian community remembering the 1.5 million Armenians who died during the 1915 Armenian Genocide in Ottoman Turkey. The blogger from Armenia now living in the United Kingdom says the march reminded him to some extent of the annual 24 April memorial back home.
April 23rd, 2008
The Macedonian Tendency shares the schedule of the Macedonian Film Festival that will take place in London next week.
Ukrainiana writes about the “Hitler toy” story that first appeared on the Russian TV and was later picked up by BBC: “To the extent that the Western media often cite Russian sources as an authority on Ukraine, they also partake in this smorgasbord of Soviet-style propaganda.”
April 18th, 2008
Sean's Russia Blog writes about “Gensek Putin” (48 comments) - and posts an update on the investigation of Anna Politkovskaya's murder.
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