Archive for October 30th, 2006
Global Voices OnlineSaturday, October 28, 2006
On October 25, International Herald Tribune published Evgeny Morozov’s opinion piece on the recent developments in the Russian blogosphere. On his blog – Sharp & Sound: Perspectives On Modern Politics – Morozov wrote:
[...] I’ve been surprised how little coverage the story has received in the Western media…Hm, virtually none…
Russian bloggers, [...]
Global Voices OnlineWednesday, October 25, 2006
The Second Blog War continues in Russia.
Brad Fitzpatrick, the LiveJournal’s creator, has now joined the discussion over at sup_ru LJ community: in English, he offers some explanations and apologies here (and receives 248 comments so far) and lists the bloggers’ most common questions and concerns here (123 comments so [...]
Global Voices OnlineSaturday, October 21, 2006
(more buttons and userpics are here)
The Russian-language blogosphere (commonly known as ZheZhe) is on fire: some users are shutting down their blogs, others are emigrating to the virtual Trinidad & Tobago – all because LiveJournal.com’s owner Six Apart has decided to team up with the Russian internet company Sup, founded [...]
Global Voices OnlineFriday, July 28, 2006
Below is the translation of three stories about words: in the first one, they are being banned; in the second, they offend; in the third, there aren’t enough of them.
LJ user plushev, a Russian radio journalist, writes (RUS) about the government’s attack on the name of the controversial National Bolshevik [...]
Global Voices OnlineTuesday, July 25, 2006
Founder of PravdaBeslana.ru Marina Litvinovich (LJ user abstract2001) writes (RUS) about one of the problems that survivors and relatives of those who died in Beslan in September 2004 have to deal with now:
Orthodox Christianity in Beslan
I’ve always been amazed by how the local authorities in North Ossetia and Beslan can [...]
Global Voices OnlineSaturday, July 22, 2006
Kyiv, Independence Square: “President Kuchma – shame, Yushchenko – the nation’s disappointment. Moroz – betrayed the Maidan!” – by Veronica Khokhlova
Nearly two years after the Orange Revolution, there are tents at Kyiv’s Independence Square (Maidan Nezalezhnosti) again. The camp isn’t big, and it looks dormant for now, but as Ukrainian [...]
Global Voices OnlineWednesday, July 19, 2006
The Israeli blogosphere has a Russian-language corner: quite vocal, it is populated mainly by those who emigrated from the former Soviet states in the past few decades.
Below is a selection of posts about the war, written by Israeli women, in Russian.
LJ user gollitely (Lena Lagutina, Jerusalem) – July 14, [...]
Global Voices OnlineFriday, July 14, 2006
It may not seem so – but it’s a very small world. To know that someone we hold dear is directly affected by what for us is nothing but a headline is one way to feel this smallness.
As the conflict in the Middle East escalates, a Ukrainian LJ user [...]
Global Voices OnlineFriday, July 7, 2006
Ukraine has been without a new government since the March 26 election. A coalition between Victor Yushchenko’s Our Ukraine, Yulia Tymoshenko’s Bloc and the Socialist Party was finally formed at the end of June, but it didn’t last past yesterday, when Socialist leader Oleksandr Moroz unexpectedly joined forces with the [...]
Global Voices OnlineMonday, July 10, 2006
Nikolai Patrushev, head of the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB), announced Monday that Shamil Basayev had been killed shortly after midnight in a truck explosion outside a village in Ingushetia.
Timur Aliev (LJ user timur_aliev), editor-in-chief of the print/online weekly Chechen Society (Chechenskoye Obshchestvo), happened to be in Nazran (the capital [...]
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