Global Voices Online

Ukrainiana posts a few more videos of the Kyiv mayoral campaign ads.

At Robert Amsterdam's blog, a guest column from the Russian filmmaker Andrei Nekrasov.

Itching for Eestimaa writes about “asymmetrical bilingualism” and the Estonia report by Doudou Diene, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance.

AnTyx writes about the Eastern Partnership project.

Kamangir reports that Sheema Kalbasi has published a book about the works of Iranian female poets from Middle age to present day Iran. The book is called: Seven Valleys of Love.

A Fistful of Euros posts a brief summary of the results of the election in Serbia.

Rick Steves,an American tourist,is blogging from Iran. He says that there is no urinals in Iran.He writes “There are no urinals anywhere. I did an extensive search: at the airport, fancy hotels, the university, the fanciest coffee shops. No urinals in Iran.”

Several Iranian bloggers remembered the 11th anniversary of presidential election where Mohammad Khatami came to power.Mind-Sketch has published 35 photos from Khatami's days.

Negarakha,an Iranian blogger, says[Fa] that Baznegar,a popular site that covers news about blogs was filtered.Negarakha invites other bloggers to protest against this filtering and talk about it in their blogs.

Thanks to Homeyra we can see a map of Iran where all territorial changes in the 19th and 20th centuries are explained.

Winston, an Iranian blogger from Canada, writes that he tries to raise money to bring his sick mother to Canada for medical care.

Haitian blogger Wadner Pierre shares his thoughts on the philosophy of nonviolence and, in the words of Thoreau, when “it is important for honest men to break the law.”

“Cultural identity is as equally important as political independence and economic self-sufficiency in the process of nation-building. Cultural development is the bedrock of the creation of a national identity”: Corruption-free Anguilla wonders whether the island has a culture.

Signifyin' Guyana posts a piece by John Agard to illustrate the things to look for in a poem.

Vexed Bermoothes says that the ruling party's attacks on the free press are attracting international attention: “The fact is, that despite paying years of lip service to freedom of information, the Bermuda Government is doing little to implement it. Moreover, the PLP is using the offices of Government to punish members of the media for lobbying in favour of increased public transparency and accountability.”

The Jamaican Prime Minister's comments on BBC's HARDTalk programme spur blogger Francis Wade to make a few comments of his own: “Golding…candidly responded that he would not have a gay person in his cabinet. His distaste and contempt seemed palpable to me. I imagined Jamaicans looking on with pride…I imagined most of the world looking on in horror.”

News of Guyana-Gyal's family and a few presents that they have sent her from abroad cause her to be “simply livin’ and appreciatin’.”

Blogging from St. Lucia, Looshan Ramblings is concerned about the effect of rising oil prices and the global food crisis on consumers: “We need to know that our leaders are trying their best to put measures that will cushion the fall out from this global food crisis and recession.”

Indian Muslims Blog on the case of a soldier in the US Army using the Koran for target practice.

Cristina en El Campo [es] documents the process behind the work of a group of individuals that created an image of Argentine president Cristina Kirchner in the middle of a soy field in the northeastern part of the country as a way to get involved with the current crisis.

Seventy-five percent of Colombians do not have access to the internet reveals a recent studty. Campus Comunicativo [es] provides more of the findings.

Campus Party - Colombia is about a month away and Carolina Botero provides an update on some of the activities and speakers planeed for the week-long event.

Salvadoran-American musician Carlos Colón-Quintana presents his musical in honor of those killed in the civil war in El Salvador, especially the victims of El Mozote. He posts clips ans lyrics on his bilingual blog [es/en].

The Pakistani Spectator on the indifference towards environmental issues in the country.

All Things Pakistan on the alarming rise in food prices, called the “silent tsunami”.

Unheard Voices on a bank in Bangladesh that has made it mandatory for female employees to wear the headscarf.

In Mutatione Fortitud, the blog of a political scientist from Azerbaijan, comments on his country's first ever debut in this year's Eurovision Song Contest and says that it appears as if the song, Day After Day, was “pretty successful.” The Revolving Madventist Church of the Golden Worm of Mu agrees and says the entry entered into the true spirit of the international song contest with such a “blatant disregard of propriety” which “brings the whole act safely from ridiculousness into the hyperdimensional realm of pure awesomeness, Epic Win, and spiral power. And it sounds kinda nifty, too.”

A Chongqing-based magazine, New Travel Weekly, was suspended from publishing for using bikini-clad women on the front page of its May 19 issue. More from ESWN and DANWEI.

Social Science in the Caucasus examines the Internet presence of Armenian and Georgian communities in Switzerland. The blog of the Caucasus Research Resource Centers says that examining the extent of activity in online communities is one way of tracking how organized migrant communities abroad are.

Michael Turton comments on Taiwan new president Ma Ying-jeou's inaugural address.

Sun Bin reported that in the three days national mourning for Sichuan earthquake victims, all T.V channels become CCTV. Literally speaking, most of the entertainment channels, including Star T.V and HBO are banned locally, with a mourning message.

A message mobilizing people to boycott internet spy has been spreading around via e-mails and forums. All negative comments about earthquake relief work are considered as rumors written by spies. Jenny pointed out that the message intended to block and threaten all negative comments rather than dealing with problems with an open attitude [zh].

Luke pointed out that the private deal between Hong Kong government and the Time Square property management concerning the Time Square public space may have violated the Basic Law [zh], which protects freedom of expression and gathering.

Wang Hua from china-week listed out several mistakes made by People's Liberation Army in the 512 earthquake relief work. The rescue team has missed the golden 72 hours to save the victims[zh].

Lena B-Va reports that Kazakhstan President Nursultan Nazarbayev spoke at the World Economic Forum’s meeting in Sharm-El-Sheikh (Egypt) and said that the main reason for world food crisis is speculation.

Elena from neweurasia presents a short podcast with the extracts from the national Kyrgyz epos “Manas”.

Patrick Frost reviews the Hudson Institute scholar's concept of a growing ‘war weariness’ with Afghan, European, and American troops in Afghanistan.

Joshua Foust refers in his post to Soraya Sarhaddi Nelson - in Joshua's opinion the only reporter talking about road construction in Afghanistan who is making any sense.

Lucas Carrasco of Artepolitica [es] provides the latest poll numbers for Buenos Aires mayor Mauricio Macri. Overall he remains popular, but residents indicate that security remains their number one concern.

eBlog [es] writes about the lego recreation of the infamous “hand of God” goal scored by Argentine football legend Diego Maradona.

The new Sumaya museum is being constructed in Mexico City thanks to billionaire Carlos Slim. México Para Los Mexicanos [es] examines some questions about the museum's location and whether proper thought has been given to how this increased traffic will affect the neighborhood's residents.

In Bolivia, the website of the radio station where political analyst and government critic Carlos Valverde holds his radio station was recently hacked. Renzo Colanzi of Mientras Estás Aquí [es] has the screenshot of the hackers' message that states that it was done for Bolivarian integration.

Muqeem in KSA [Ar], from Saudi Arabia, is wondering why authorities haven't taken any measures against the problem residents are having with wild monkeys and asks whether it was because not many citizens live in that particular area.

Egyptian blogger Shokeir [Ar] is surprised that an Egyptian Bloggers Union has been formed.

Kuwait's Hilaliya shares some post-elections thoughts in this post.