Stories from 6 June 2011
Russia: Journalists Discuss Possible Closure of “Izvestia” Newspaper
Nataly Oss [ru] and Ksenia Larina [ru] discuss possible closure of “Izvestia,” once “a long-running high-circulation daily newspaper.” The control over the newspaper was taken over by Inews (publisher of a popular online...
Belarus: Security Services Arrest Administrators of Major Opposition Vkontakte Groups
Several administrators of opposition groups at Vkontakte network were detained, Nasha Niva reported [by]. Sergey Pavlukevich [by], administrator of “We Stand for Great Belarus” [by] (123,000 members, functional although some...
Indonesia: Public holidays
Indonesia Matters lists the official public holidays in Indonesia
Indonesia: Youth and e-commerce
DS Research uploads a May 2011 study on how the youth in Indonesia use e-commerce.
Indonesia: Transparency in the education budget
Indonesian blogger nrg07 suggests that transparency in the education budget is more urgent than demanding compliance to the constitutional requirement of allotting 20 percent of the national budget to the...
Indonesia: English speeches are illegal
nrg07 mentions an Indonesian law which requires top government officials to use the Bahasa Indonesia language when making speeches. Recently, a constitutional expert said that the Prime Minister's English speeches...
Peru: Exit Polls Place Ollanta Humala in the Lead
Follow netizen's reactions as they wait for results from the second round of presidential elections in Peru: Juan Arellano is tracking online activity via Storify [es] as exit polls place...
