Creative Commons in the South Caucasus

[Onnik Krikorian <onnik AT oneworld.am>]

Slightly off-topic, but perhaps not as Global Voices Online as well as 
my photos and posts are all licensed under Creative Commons:


> Global Voices Online » Caucasus: 2008 Blog Review
>
> Last year ended with a state of emergency declared in the Republic of 
> Georgia, but few could imagine that the events of 2008 would eclipse 
> those of 2007.
> Three presidential elections, a war, and yet another state of 
> emergency defined the South Caucasus this year, and bloggers were 
> there to document events from the ground even when the local and 
> international media wasn't.
>
> True, the presidential election held at the beginning of the year in 
> Georgia passed largely without incident, but trouble was already 
> brewing in neighboring Armenia ahead of its vote to determine 
> succession to the incumbent president the following month. Blogging on 
> politics naturally intensified and mirrored the deep divisions in the 
> country.
>
> [...]
>
> But if events in Armenia set shock waves through the international 
> community regarding the state of democracy and stability in the South 
> Caucasus, what happened towards the end of the summer put the region, 
> and Georgia in particular, on the front pages of every newspaper in 
> the world. [...]
>
> The full post is at:
> http://globalvoicesonline.org/2008/12/25/caucasus-2008-blog-review/

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Onnik Krikorian 

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