Stories from 20 February 2006
Russia: Moscow Gay Pride Parade Banned
Andy Young of Taking Aim explains how the general bias against homosexuality in Russia has led to the cancellation of gay pride parade in Moscow.
Russia: Journalist Anna Politkovskaya
Raffi Aftandelian of Maaskva: Nashimi Glazami shares his thoughts on one of Russia's most prominent war journalists, Anna Politkovskaya, the nature of her writing, and the practice of reading newspapers in general. (This post is in two languages, English and Russian, as all the posts in this blog are.)
Afghan Whispers: Civil Society, Corruption & Secularism
Safrang writes about civil society in Afghanistan : “As the world is becoming a small but global village such proceedings not only entails scattering within the human family but also undermines the efforts for peace and solidarity around the globe. The civil society of Afghanistan, likewise, does not consider resorting...
Armenia: Hassling Rock'n'Rollers
ArmYouth Blog reports on heavy security at a rock festival and how stereotypes held by security caused trouble for concertgoers.
Tajikistan: Small Victory
Alan Cordova reports on a small victory in the case of a jailed Tajik democracy pioneer.
Armenia: Notes from the Armenian Blogosphere
Oneworld Multimedia has a roundup of the English language Armenian blogosphere and the Armenian language Armenian blogosphere.
Turkmenistan: Bouygues's Sweet Deal
neweurasia reports on the massive deals signed by French construction firm Bouygues with the Turkmen government.
Tajikistan: Destroying a Synagogue
A Dushanbe expat writing for Registan.net reports on the impending destruction of Tajikistan's only synagogue.
Armenia: The Pop Beat
Harmick of Blogrel has a roundup of Armenian pop culture news.
Pakistan: Blog-o-tracking
It is bad enough having my blog routinely reviewed by dot gov and dot mil domains but now I think I am also being followed by some rather unsavory net characters while cruising the internet highway searching for interesting blog posts for GV. I have to publicly declare here, that...
India: Barcamp in Delhi
India: Barcamp in Delhi
Bangladesh: Knowing Hindi
Bangladesh: Knowing Hindi
Bosnia & Herzegovina: Grbavica
Resident of a Sarajevo neighborhood Grbavica, Balkan-Scissors announces the Bosnian movie Grbavica, which has just won the Berlin Golden Bear award.
Nepal: Kantipur Anniversary
Nepal: Kantipur Anniversary
Belarus: Microsoft's Russification Policy
br23 blog encourages Belarusian Internet users to write to Microsoft to protest what appears to be the company's Russification policy: “If in your browser settings you chose Belarusian as the first language […], then all the materials on support.microsoft.com would always appear to you in Russian. Even if you explicitly...
Belarus: Moscow Solidarity Rally
LJ user greenmih, a Russian photographer, posts black-and-white photos from an anti-Lukashenko, pro-Belarus solidarity rally that took place in front of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Moscow this past Saturday (RUS). Politically-minded hooligans tried to disrupt the rally, but did not succeed.
Belarus: Four Presidential Candidates
br23 blog introduces the four Belarusian politicians who have managed to collect more than 100,000 signatures and were registered by the Central Election Committee as presidential candidates: Alexander Lukashenka, Siarhiej Hajdukevich, Alexander Kazulin, and Alexander Milinkevich.
Female body
What an African Women Thinks discusses the issue of the “female body”, “image” “diet” ……Bombarded by these images every which way she turns, how can today’s average woman not become self-conscious, self-doubting and acutely aware of where and how far she falls short ? (of a standard set by who,...
Belarus: Lukashenko Regime and the Upcoming Election
Tobias Ljungvall draws a parallel between today's Belarus and Russia under Lenin, and muses about Lukashenko's regime, the Russian ‘managed democracy’ model and the upcoming election. He also mentions solidarity rallies that took place in Stockholm on Feb. 16 – and one that was dispersed by the police in Minsk.
Radio Africa FM
The Voice of Africa Radio has been awarded an FM licence. David Ajao's writes “In a nutshell, VOAR is London’s first African radio station….“The station was launched to act as a true Pan-African voice for the African community…. (it) has a strong speech commitment, providing phone-in discussion programmes for local...
India: Bollywood Bridges
India: Bollywood Bridges
