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Friday World Blog Roundup

Categories: East Asia, Middle East & North Africa, Sub-Saharan Africa, China, Georgia, Iran, Iraq, Kenya, Latvia, Malaysia, Russia, Thailand, Uzbekistan, Zimbabwe

Central Asia:
Kudos to Lyndon at Scraps of Moscow [1] and Nathan at Registan.net [2] for their excellent collection of posts and links, aggregating and translation (by Lyndon) [3] of information about the Uzbekistan uprising [4].

Peace_duke_1 [5]Baltics:
This picture appeared around Latvia during President Bush's visit. All About Latvia explains [5] what “Peace Duke” means.

Belatedly, here are some impressions on Bush's Latvia visit by Baltic coctail [6] (sic)

Eurasia:
Blogrel links to some critical Armenian views [7] about Bush's Georgia visit.

Cyber-Generation hates cold showers in Moscow [8].

Some silly person has created a Xanga blog [9] claiming to be authored by Vladimir Putin…

Putinblog_1 [9]

Africa:
Afrotecnik posts some useful links [10] on the impact of cell phones in Africa.

Zimbabwean Pundit gives us the latest links [11] on arbitration for farmers whose land was forcibly seized.

Sokwanele describes his local pastor's latest junket [12].

Bankele posts from Nairobi on the state of Kenyan media [13].

Chinainternetcrime [14]East Asia:
ESWN has a long post on China's biggest internet crime trial [14] to date.

Danwei mocks [15] CNN's China coverage.

Southeast Asia:
In Thailand, Sampaworn shows how Bangkok Post editors make things worse [16].

Mack at BrandMalaysia criticizes Anwar Ibrahim's latest TV appearance [17].


Middle East:

Shiapeacemakers [18]
Iraq:
Raed in the Middle has a good news story on Shia peacemakers in Fallujah [18].

A Free Writer says the insurgency is death with no rules [19].

Iranian Election Blogging:
Iranian Prospect describes a Strategy of Fear [20].

Hossein Derakhshan says the regime is desperate for a high turnout [21].

Free Thoughts on Iran describes Iran's censorship situation [22].