Tag: protests
Happy Sunday! The New Year started with this great initiative and I was so glad to see most of the “celebrities” I am following standing behind this cause. There is a reason why I love all these people, I thought. Also, it is Golden Globes Sunday, and I can’t wait to see them all wearing black tonight. Award season is one of the very few perks of these gloomy, grey after-holidays times, and I am excited for many of my favorites. To only name my biggest favorite, good luck to Mariah Carey and Marc Shaiman tonight! I hope you all had…
Wrapping up a very eventful week as always, here’s a few great posts for you to catch up with global news. Who is Invited to the Syria Peace Talks (And Who’s Not) A map of the invitees by BBC World with Mark Leon Goldberg’s smart comments on UNDispatch. Should He Stay or Should He Go? Assad’s Future Clouds Syria Talks Indeed this is the one question on which the parties’ views can’t seem to get even an inch closer. Burning Buses in Kyiv Last weekend the sparkles of protests fired up yet again even stronger than before in the Ukranian…
Happy Sunday everybody! I hope you all had a wonderful weekend! As you might noticed, I was a little stuck with the blog last week. To be honest, I do want to make some changes for some time now. The problem is, I do know what I want to see here, how I want it to be, I am just not quite sure how to get there. Please bare with me while I figure it out, I promise to keep this thing up with good content all the while. One thing never changes though, and that’s my enthusiasm towards world…
theatlantic: In Focus: Days of Protests in Ukraine Over the weekend, hundreds of thousands of people in Ukraine took to the streets to demonstrate against President Viktor Yanukovich’s decision to abandon an EU integration pact, as he works to strengthen economic ties to Russia, rather than Europe. Protesters blockaded government buildings and occupied Independence Square in Kiev today, seeking to force Yanukovich from office. After harsh crackdowns last night, demonstrations continued this morning, with leaders calling for a nationwide strike. Read more.
