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15 February 2006

Stories from 15 February 2006

The Week That Was – Bolivian Blogs

Want proof that the Bolivian blogosphere is a steadily growing community? In a recent email to the Bolivian blog listserv, Sebastian Molina, one of the masterminds behind the Mundo Al...

Written by Eduardo Avila
16 February 2006

Mongolia: Chingis Statue

Mongolia Matters has the details on a planned 40 meter tall steel statue of Chingis Khan holding a gold whip to be built about 50 km outside of the capital.

Written by Nathan Hamm
16 February 2006

Armenia: SOS Kinderdorf

Onnik Krikorian has two pages of photos and reporting on SOS Kinderdorf's village near Abovian, Armenia. The organization, which works in 132 countries, gives children without parental care the opportunity...

Written by Nathan Hamm
16 February 2006

‘Singing Revolution’ in Estonia

Bonjour l'Estonie points to a documentary about a predecessor of the recent bloodless revolutions in the former Soviet Union – Estonia's Singing Revolution. The documentary's website is here.

Written by Veronica Khokhlova
15 February 2006

Brazil: Getting Rolling Stoned in Rio

Cuaderno Latinoamericano, a group blog maintained by students at Tulane University, says that the Rolling Stones will be playing a free concert this weekend in Rio de Janeiro. Free, that...

Written by David Sasaki
15 February 2006

Yanukovych and Poetry

Oleksandr at Messages From Canada has a post about “proFFessor” Victor Yanukovych talking poetry in Odesa. Very funny. Yanukovych is Ukraine's former prime minister who ran for president in 2004...

Written by Veronica Khokhlova
15 February 2006

Puerto Rico: Education ills

Gil the Jenius compares the Puerto Rican Department of Education's announcement that they're laying off of 5,000 personnel to “a patient with cancer-riddled internal organs being told he's about to...

Written by Georgia Popplewell
15 February 2006

Guyana: Truth in journalism

MediaCritic publishes a letter sent to him by a journalist disputing MediaCritic's claim that the Stabroek News was the only Guyanese media outlet to carry the “complete” story of what...

Written by Georgia Popplewell
15 February 2006

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