Global Voices Online

Robert Amsterdam draws attention to an online exhibition on the Soviet Gulag system - created by the Center for History and New Media at George Mason University in cooperation with Russian human rights organization “Memorial” - and posts a video depicting how arrests were made during the Stalinist era.

Russian Strategic Nuclear Forces analyzes the risks involved with converting Russian uranium from nuclear warheads into low-enriched uranium for nuclear energy - the Megatons to Megawatts programme.

Michael J. Totten's Middle East Journal reports that it will be visiting Azerbaijan next month for a conference on the U.S. Presidential Election and locally related matters. The blog also solicits questions from its readers which can be put to senior government officials in the country as well as religious leaders and business executives.