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10 February 2006

Stories from 10 February 2006

Armenia: Yeraz Art

Raffi Meneshian, a blogger at Life in the Armenian Diaspora, writes about joining Yeraz Art, a nonprofit that assists young Armenian musicians in finding venues to perform internationally and helps...

Written by Nathan Hamm
11 February 2006

Armenia, Azerbaijan: NK Peace

Oneworld Multimedia has plenty of discussion of talks in France between Armenia and Azerbaijan to reach a settlement over Nagorno Karabakh, including that a US military presence in the region...

Written by Nathan Hamm
11 February 2006

Iraq: Riverbend Raided

Riverbends neighborhood and home was raided by the police. She provides a detailed account of what happened: “One of them stood with the Klashnikov pointed at us, and the other...

Written by Salam Adil
11 February 2006

Ecuador: History and Analysis

In a somewhat enigmatic, but very informative series of four posts, S. Artesian of The Wolf Report describes, “The Importance of Being Ecuador.”

Written by David Sasaki
11 February 2006

Costa Rica: On Ballots and TP

Costa Rica en el Presente has unofficial election results which are being thrown around as the Supreme Election Tribunal (TSE) continues to hand count ballots. In what Bob Glass calls...

Written by David Sasaki
11 February 2006

Gustav of the Warsaw Station reports on the meeting between Poland's president Kaczyński and George Bush, during which Bush, among other things, asked Kaczyński for “his advice on Ukraine.” Gustav...

Written by Veronica Khokhlova
11 February 2006

“Billboard Ballyhoo”

Lemuel Kolkava of Deleted by Tomorrow writes about a funny development in the Slovak politics: because of the early election, the party that most wanted it now risks being left...

Written by Veronica Khokhlova
11 February 2006

“Go Back to Slovenia!”

Michael M. at The Glory of Carniola writes that Slovenian women were portrayed as not pretty in a 2002 Ali G's movie – and how Slovenians remained unmoved by it.

Written by Veronica Khokhlova
10 February 2006

Estonian Beauty Contests

Inspired by a Finland blogger, Giustino at Itching for Eestimaa discusses something as relative as female beauty – and the lack of it – and writes on the Miss Estonia...

Written by Veronica Khokhlova
10 February 2006

Jamaica: Spanish Town Blues

Charles Matheson reports to work at his office in the Jamaican district of Spanish Town, which erupted in violent protest on Wednesday in response to the killing of a gang...

Written by Georgia Popplewell
10 February 2006

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