Don’t you go and think that Obama is the only political figure who recently engaged his country’s youth in the political debate successfully. His now Russian counterpart, President Dmitry Medvedev, just like before him Vladimir Putin, is at the top of his game in this area too – as the […]
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Novaya Gazeta, one of Russia’s few remaining independent newspapers, is burying this month its fifth murdered journalist in the past eight years. [see AP and Moscow Times stories here below]. I wish I could say these are rare and unusually horrifying events, but I used to read about such news […]
As a follow up to my post on MLK papers [Jan 14, 09]: I cannot think of a more timely and civically-minded government-run online media service than this one… http://usaservice.org/page/content/calltoservice/ The interactive website, complete with a videoed call for action on MLK Day from Michelle Obama, says: “This website is […]
A timely and welcome development – although I had to temper my initial enthusiasm, as both The Atlanta Journal-Constitution and AP reports make clear that this ‘online access’ comes with the pre-requisite of a trip to the library. A little puzzling at first sight, but on the whole this initiative […]