Global Voices Online

Eternal Remont draws attention to a recent study from Cambridge University claiming that IMF's policies in Eastern Europe during the 1990s implicitly caused the deaths of some 100,000 people from tuberculosis.

Der Spiegelfechter (GER) analyses Russian foreign policy under president Medvedev, following the publication of the country's first foreign policy concept in eight years.

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.