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VHPEditor
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Featured Editor: Onnik Krikorian
Onnik Krikorian is a British blogger, journalist, and photographer of Armenian decent who has been living in Yerevan, one of...
 
Rebecca M
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USA: Veterans ask Obama to reconsider Afghanistan
Brave New Foundation posts a petition and YouTube video with young veterans asking Obama not to send more troops to Afghanistan.
 
VHPEditor
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USA: Veterans ask Obama to reconsider Afghanistan
Brave New Foundation posts a petition and YouTube video with young veterans asking Obama not to send more troops to Afghanistan.
 
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Azerbaijan: Bloggers sentenced
As many of their supporters feared, and on the same day as a round table on the case against two detained video blogging youth...
 
VHPEditor
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Kyrgyzstan: Satanized
Shairbek Zhusuev, leader of political party ErK (Erkin Kyrgyzstan - transl. Free Kyrgyzstan), shocked many Kyrgyzstanis stating...
 
VHPEditor
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Uzbekistan: Thank you, cotton-growers!
Musafirbek says that the president of Uzbekistan officially thanked the cotton-growers for gathering the harvest of this...
 
Rebecca M
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Uzbekistan: Thank you, cotton-growers!
Musafirbek says that the president of Uzbekistan officially thanked the cotton-growers for gathering the harvest of this...
 
Rebecca M
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Kazkahstan: The Arrival of Kazakhbashi?
Alexander Visotzky writes about the opening of a monument in Astana, the new capital of Kazakhstan, where the authorities...
 
Rebecca M
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Uzbekistan: EU lifts Uzbek sanctions
Dafydd reports that the EU has lifted the arms embargo on Uzbekistan. Reasons given are abolishment of the death penalty and...
 
Rebecca M
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Mongolia: New Prime Minister
Bilguun watched the change of the government in Mongolia, starting from resignation of S.Bayar under health reasons, nomination...
 
Rebecca M
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Azerbaijan: Traditions
Sheki, Azerbaijan makes two posts on specific traditions practiced in her home country. In the first post, the blog explains...
 
Rebecca M
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Azerbaijan: Chess victory
Sheki, Azerbaijan comments on Azerbaijan's recent victory in the European Team Chess Championship. The blog says that it is...
 
Rebecca M
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Azerbaijan: Reaction to yesterday's blogger trial
As the trial of video blogging youth activists Adnan Hajizade and Emin Milli continues in Baku, two English-language bloggers...
 
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Azerbaijan: Activist blogger trial resumes, delays persist…
Although not its official birthday, Global Voices Online made its first ever post on threats made against Iranian dissident blogger Hossein Derakhshan, aka Hoder five years ago today. And in the same week that Threatened Voices, an online project to map...
 
Rebecca M
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Azerbaijan: Activist blogger trial resumes, delays persist…
Although not an official birthday, Global Voices Online made its first ever post on threats made against an Iranian dissident...
 
Rebecca M
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Russia: Calling Abkhazia Via Russia
Eternal Remont reports that “as of November 16, Abkhazia will adopt Russian area codes for telephone service. This means...
 
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Azerbaijan: Eurovision scandal continues
Despite attemts by the authorities to downplay the incident, news that the names and addresses of 43 citizens who voted for the...