Brandan Reynolds of South Africa on Africa’s extreme vulnerability to the ebola virus.
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The Russian and Ukrainian music scenes have always been intertwined. Young Ukrainian artists would come to Moscow looking for fame and fortune, while Russian celebrities would go to Ukraine on tour. But as nationalist rhetoric gets more heated, cultural exchange is suffering.
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“My life was deteriorating, and like everyone in our band of children, my hopes of finding our families were diminishing too. There were no signs of them.”
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Cartoonist Sergii Fedko on the lack of any real consequences for Russia’s recent actions in Ukraine.
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In this edition of The Writer’s Block, Yankunytjatjara Australian poet Ali Cobby Eckermann talks about global English, the limits of the written word, and the exile of indigenous voices.
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Journalists, media specialists and organizations supporting press freedom from the post-Soviet region will meet in the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv, this week to discuss current trends in their countries and to debate the way forward for the independent media.
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The temporary return to daily rhythm and social order in Hong Kong does not mean that the movement is over, but may show Hong Kong’s pragmatic nature, and demonstrate that the protesters may have learned something from March’s Sunflower Student Movement in Taipei.
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