Stories from 9 July 2009
Ghana: Best places to eat in Accra
Karen lists the best places to eat in Accra, Ghana: “However, it is that time of the year where dozens of people that I know are heading off for field...
India: Gogola.in
Dina Mehta at Conversation with Dina posts a picture of an advertisement in Bandra, Mumbai. The ad of Gola (ice slush) is styled as an imitation of the Google Homepage...
Azerbaijan: Youth activist, blogger detention updates
Flying Carpets and Broken Pipelines says that she woke up to the news of the detention of two youth activists in Baku, Azerbaijan, this morning despite eye witness accounts that...
Arab World: Swine Flu Fever Continues
Swine flu or H1N1 is still making headlines across the Arab world as new cases continue to be discovered by health authorities and announced in the Press on a daily basis. Here's a preview of what bloggers in Bahrain, Jordan, Egypt and Syria are talking about.
Bahrain: Reading Detective Novels
bint battuta in bahrain introduces her readers to two detective novels – Vendetta by Michael Dibdin and The Winter Queen by Boris Akunin, which she has just finished from reading.
Russia: Do you want to live in such a country?
Inspired by Obama's view that states serving its peoples, and not rulers serving their own interests, tend to survive and flourish in the long run, LJ user agitator mass posts...
Russia-Ukraine: State, nation and language
Ukrainiana points out the basic flaw in Russian Premier Putin's pretensions of 17 million Russians living in Ukraine, by stating the fundamental difference between state- and nationhood, language and ethnicity...
Czech Republic: President vetoes anticrisis bill
The Reference Frame reports that Czech President Vaclac Klaus has vetoed a parliamentary anti-crisis bill and presents his own thoughts on the matter.
Russia: Split among National Bolsheviks
Ilya Yashin analyses [RUS] the recent split among Russian National Bolsheviks, leading to the expulsion of the party's Moscow section and severe internal crisis.
Russia: Parliament and Patriarch
LJ user ybserver turns attention to [RUS] a decision of ruling United Russia party to consult the Orthodox Patriarchate on legislative proposals prior to parliamentary deliberation, and points out the...
Bahrain: Missing Michael's Style
Bahrain fashion blogger Aysha remembers Michael Jackson's style: “From his staple sequin white glove to his sequin socks, and his many sequin military jackets, MJ helped remind us that fashion...
Russia: Path of the powerful
LJ user oldfisher mk analyses and criticizes [RUS] the process by which power has chosen its peers for parliament and presidential administration.
Russia: Putin and the bikers part II
Voices from Russia translates extracts of and comments an article on Premier Putin's Moscow [Sic!] meetup with Russian bikers, taking time off from the recent Obama-Medvedev summit, as an MC-motorcade...
Pakistan: Political Party Over Nation
Rehmat Yazdani at Islamabad Metblogs criticizes the public display of Pakistan Peoples Party's (PPP) flags in Islamabad and comments: “these flags are giving Islamabad a look of PPP’s own capital...
Sri Lanka: Co-existence
Elmo Jayawardena pleads to the Sri Lankans: “as individuals, be it a Sinhalese or a Tamil, let us not raise the draw bridge to isolate ourselves and callously wallow in...
