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Russia: Medvedev's Speech and IT; Twitter and the Police

Posted by Veronica Khokhlova on 17/11/2009

Profy writes about the IT dimension of president Medvedev's annual address: “The draft speech was initially published online as a lengthy article by the president and he invited all the citizens to voice their opinions out via the Kremlin official website - and people were definitely very ...

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Italy: Online activism fires up “No Berlusconi Day”

Posted by Bernardo Parrella on 17/11/2009

A group of bloggers-citizens has launched an International protest movement to demand the resignation of Italy's Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi due to scandals and corruption trials. More than 280,000 people have pledged to participate in the December 5 rallies.

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Ukraine: Updates on the Flu Epidemic

Posted by Veronica Khokhlova on 16/11/2009

Last weeks' posts on the flu epidemic: Tetyana Vysotska of What's up, Ukraine? falls ill (doctor tells her it's “impossible to have a test on whether it may be a swine flu”) and recovers; Foreign Notes writes that “there is no reason to expect the medical profession in ...

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CEE: The Berlin Wall

Posted by Veronica Khokhlova on 16/11/2009

The 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall: How To Marry a Bulgarian hosts a series of readers' personal reflections: Biliana Velkova, Alexandra Grashkina-Hristova, Maria Vassileva; Hungarian Spectrum writes that “for Hungary and the Hungarians the whole thing started much earlier ...

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Russia: 1999 Chechen Diary, Part 4

Posted by Veronica Khokhlova on 16/11/2009

The final part (part 4) of Polina Zherebtsovas 1999 Chechen Diary - at Sundry Translations and Other Tangentialia. (More links: intro, part 1, part 2, part 3, Russian-language original.)

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