Global Voices Online

Windows to Russia! writes about local “customs and superstitions.”

Window on Eurasia writes about one “small Finno-Ugric people”'s demand that Microsoft add six “additional modified Cyrillic letters their language requires but that are not found in Russian to his company’s Windows operating system.”

Robert Amsterdam writes about various (mis)interpretations of Vladimir Putin's quote on a possible pardon for Mikhail Khodorkovsky - in the Russian press as well as in the Western media - and offers a translation of his own.

Moscow Rules blogs the 4th Ukrainian Investment Summit - here and here.

La Russophobe explains and translates the video parody “of the way Dimitri Medvedev was selected to be the next ‘President'”: “The parody appears to have become wildly popular on the RuNet, with nearly 800,000 views to date.”

Libyano, from Libya, posts pictures from his country in this post.

On the international action day “Free Osanloo“, 6 march 2008, the FNV awarded the Febe Elisabeth Velasquéz prize to Mansour Osanloo,jailed trade union leader in Iran.Watch the video here.

From Bahrain, Silly Bahraini Girl takes offence to a comment made by a reader on another blog about her nationality.

Firouzeh Mozafari,from Iran, has published “Seed of democracy” cartoon in Haditoons.