It’s no more funny when we hear the craziest news and initiatives from our politicians and governments. They are doing really nice job since they [politicians] are accustomed to be mad about their madness, and afraid of various ‘external enemies’. I have two interesting but disgusting news from neighbor Kazakhstan and my country Kyrgyzstan. A [...]
On 16 December 2007, my country held parliamentary elections. Two days later, I was arrested by police and jailed for protesting those elections. I have been detained four times for expressing disagreement with state policy: twice during former President Askar Akaev’s tenure, and twice under current President Kurmanbek Bakiev. Until this last arrest, I had [...]
ICANN has announced plans to de-Latinize the internet. Will the move threaten global online unity? Photograph by Flickr user Kecko (CC-usage). The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), which coordinates the Internet’s global system of unique identifiers (URLS, domain names, etc.), has announced (ENG) that it will soon be possible to register domain names [...]
