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Serbia: Sinisa Boljanovic Wins Climate Change Blogging Contest

Posted by Veronica Khokhlova on 06/11/2009

Sinisa Boljanovic, a GV author and Lingua Serbian editor, became one of the winners of Round 1 of TH!NK2: CLIMATE CHANGE blogging contest; here's Sinisa's winning entry: Black Point of the Danube Basin.

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Russia: Calling Abkhazia Via Russia

Posted by Veronica Khokhlova on 06/11/2009

Eternal Remont reports that “as of November 16, Abkhazia will adopt Russian area codes for telephone service. This means than everyone trying to reach Uncle Bagrat in Gagra will have to call Russia and not Georgia.”

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Belarus: Webmaster and Politics

Posted by Veronica Khokhlova on 06/11/2009

Andrei Khrapavitski reports on problems faced by a Belarusian political party following the election of a new leader: “According to the Belarusian blogosphere, a webmaster, loyal to the previous leader, is refusing to pass passwords and website requisites to the new team. Thus they cant update ...

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Albania: Giving Directions

Posted by Veronica Khokhlova on 06/11/2009

A Nevada Yankee in King Zog's Court writes that “Albanians are so poor at giving directions that it's easier just to take the lost soul directly to his destination than it is to give directions.”

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Ukraine: “Political Flu”

Posted by Veronica Khokhlova on 06/11/2009

Today's updates on the flu situation: Greetings from Kyiv chronicles Day 5 and Day 6 of the epidemic; Chernobyl and Eastern Europe writes about the precautions taken at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant; Foreign Notes, What's up, Ukraine? and Wu Wei discuss president Yushchenko's address ...

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