Veronica Khokhlova · December, 2010

Latest posts by Veronica Khokhlova from December, 2010

Slovenia: Referendum Results

  15 December 2010

Sleeping With Pengovsky writes about the “disastrous” results and the implications of the referendum on Slovenia's public TV law: “The law was nixed with 72.64 percent votes against and only 27.36 percent in favour, with a criminally low voter turnout.”

Belarus: Search for National Identity

  10 December 2010

At OpenDemocracy.net, Natalia Leshchenko writes that “Belarusians have come to the point where they need a shared, universally accepted, veritable and satisfying understanding of themselves as a nation, and a common vision of their goals and priorities of development.”

Slovenia: More on Public TV Referendum

  10 December 2010

Sleeping With Pengovsky posts the last installment on the upcoming public TV referendum: “If the law is confirmed, common sense and quality media have a fighting chance. Nothing more, nothing less. If the law is defeated, then… well…”

Russia: Assange for Nobel Peace Prize?

  10 December 2010

Siberian Light writes that “Russia seems to be having great fun with the whole wikileaks affair”: “And the latest – Russia has gleefully seized the opportunity to suggest that Assange has done such a service to the world that he should be nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize. […] Next...

Ukraine: Fundraising to Help Street Children

  9 December 2010

Scenes from the Sidewalk announces ChildRescue/CrossRoads Foundation's fundraising initiative “to purchase gifts that will be used for “Whatever Is Needed Most” by the street and at-risk children that the organization is supporting in Ukraine: “Clothing, school supplies, food, furniture for the Centers, necessities for the children, supplies.”

Belarus: Election and Unrest

  9 December 2010

At OpenDemocracy.com, Olga Birukova writes about the upcoming presidential election in Belarus and the potential post-election protests: “No one actually knows what the level of protest could realistically be in a fully developed dictatorship in a country squeezed in between Russia and Europe.”

Russia: “Battle for Russia’s Heritage Resumes”

RuNet Echo  9 December 2010

Clementine Cecil, a journalist and co-founder of the Moscow Architectural Preservation Society (MAPS), writes on OpenDemocracy.net about protests against the proposed amendments to Russia’s heritage law: “Experts have already written to President Medvedev to voice their concern with the proposals, arguing they would ‘place tens of thousands of monuments of...

Russia: World Cup; Google's Mistake

RuNet Echo  8 December 2010

Siberian Light writes about FIFA's announcement that Russia will host the 2018 World Cup. Profy.com notes that “Google hurries to congratulate Russia on World Cup results… and offends Russians” by putting the wrong flag on the “doodle” on the Russian domain.

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