19 November 2007

Stories from 19 November 2007

Bosnia & Herzegovina: Government Crisis

A Fistful of Euros explains Bosnia and Herzegovina's government crisis: “Short version: the representative of the Serb entity, the Republika Serbska (RS), has resigned from the Council of Ministers. The...

19 November 2007

Russia: More on Khodrkovsky's Case

Robert Amsterdam posts an update on Mikhail Khodrkovsky's case: “The State’s conduct in this case is in clear violation of Russian and international law, and true rule of law courts...

19 November 2007

Russia: Moscow's Gastarbeiter

Moscow Through Brown Eyes offers an approach to writing about migrant workers in Moscow: “[…] it demands the excavation of Russia’s imperial pasts, a detailed examination of the labor question...

19 November 2007

Russia: “Health Care”

La Russophobe re-posts a TOL story on Russia's prescription medicine and “the nightmarish ordeal of millions of cancer, diabetes, and heart patients.”

19 November 2007

Russia, Mexico: Yuri Knorozov

De Rebus Antiquis Et Novis writes about life and work of Yuri Knorozov, a scientist renowned, among many other things, for his role in the deciphering of the Maya script.

19 November 2007

Israel/Palestine: A New Understanding

There are a lot of grassroots collaborations between Israelis and Palestinians that take place in a variety of arenas, but which get little attention and tend to be marginalized because...

19 November 2007

Armenia: Rising Prices

The Armenian Libertarian-Socialist Movement takes a look at various theories in circulation to explain recent price rises in Armenia.

19 November 2007

Egypt: Yamli Search

Yamli Search is very intriguing new search engine that transliterates Arabic written in the Latin alphabet into Arabic proper, and then runs that query through Google, says The Arabist.

19 November 2007

Brazil: Extreme poverty is halved

Edson Lima [pt] comments on a good piece of news: “Brazil has accomplished, ten years before the deadline set by the UN, the target of halving the percentage of the...

19 November 2007

Georgia: Imedi Returns

TOL Georgia reports that journalists at the Georgian TV station Imedi which was taken off the air during the recent opposition protest will resume their work by writing for a...

19 November 2007