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2 weeks ago | 
globalvoices.org | Filip Noubel |Mong Palatino |Daria Dergacheva |Laura Vidal
This report was written by Tom Grundy and published in Hong Kong Free Press on April 24, 2025. The following edited version is published as part of a content partnership agreement. A survey conducted by the Hong Kong Foreign Correspondents Club (FCC) has found that the majority of its members said their working environment had changed for the worse over the past two years. Sixty-nine members took part in the FCC’s biannual Press Freedom Survey between December 2024 and February 2025.
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2 weeks ago | 
globalvoices.org | Balkan Diskurs |Filip Noubel |Daria Dergacheva |Jean de Dieu SOVON
The Roma are the largest minority group in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) and are commonly exposed to prejudice, discrimination, and exclusion. Almir Agić, a 22-year-old Roma man from Ilijaš, near Sarajevo, fights prejudice with poetry and art, giving a voice to those who are invisible in society.
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2 weeks ago | 
globalvoices.org | Filip Noubel |Daria Dergacheva |Balkan Diskurs |Jean de Dieu SOVON
War often reduces entire cultures and countries to one over-simplified narrative, particularly in the domain of news. Ukraine was first invaded by Russia in 2014, and then again in 2022, and that story dominates the vast majority of media coverage on Ukraine, given the extent of death and destruction, but also the resistance demonstrated by the Ukrainian people. But Ukraine is also home to its own multilingual and multiethnic literature, music, and art that cannot ignore war but is more than war.
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2 weeks ago | 
globalvoices.org | Daria Dergacheva |Balkan Diskurs |Jean de Dieu SOVON
This article was originally published in Russian on April 17, 2025, on Novaya Vkladka, a content partner of Global Voices. Global Voices translated the article, edited it for clarity, and is republishing it with permission from Novaya Vkladka. In early April, an unusual passenger was traveling by bus from Volgograd to Moscow — a bat. It was being transported for treatment at the Moscow Zoo.
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1 month ago | 
globalvoices.org | Malka Older |Daria Dergacheva |Mong Palatino |Mohamed Mohamud
This article was originally published in Russian on March 25, 2025, on Baikal People. Global Voices translated the article, edited it for clarity, and is republishing it with permission. People's names have been changed for safety. In the spring of 2024, US authorities began sending Russians who crossed the US–Mexico border to request political asylum into detention centers en masse.
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2 months ago | 
globalvoices.org | Jean de Dieu SOVON |Pamela Ephraim |Daria Dergacheva
Many developing countries receive development aid from USAID, a US government agency. The agency’s sudden freeze on funding will likely halt the progress of several African programs. Every year, the United States pledges more than USD 40 billion to humanitarian aid and international development in developing countries. In Africa, Togo is one of the countries where this aid plays a vital role in many aspects of its community development: education, health, security, and governance.
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2 months ago | 
globalvoices.org | Eastern Europe |Daria Dergacheva |Anna Romandash
The pause in foreign aid imposed by the new US administration has adversely affected numerous civil society, human rights and independent media projects in the Western Balkans. While the exact number of affected organizations is hard to estimate, they range in the hundreds.
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2 months ago | 
globalvoices.org | Pamela Ephraim |Jean de Dieu SOVON |Daria Dergacheva
In recent years, Nigeria has gained notoriety as a global hub for internet fraud, a subset of cybercrime popularly known by the slang “yahoo yahoo”, with fraudulent activities ranging from sextortion, email or romance scams to sophisticated hacking operations.
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2 months ago | 
globalvoices.org | Daria Dergacheva |Anna Romandash |Jean de Dieu SOVON
Independent Moldovan news outlet NewsMaker published an article about the Gagauz people, who live both in Moldova and Ukraine. Global Voices translated the article, edited for clarity, and republished it with permission from NewsMaker. How did the Gagauz people end up in Ukraine? At the beginning of the 19th century, Gagauz settlers from the Balkans established themselves in Budjak in the steppe region of southern Bessarabia.
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Jan 29, 2025 | 
globalvoices.org | Daria Dergacheva
Alyaksandr Lukashenka “won” the recent elections in Belarus with 86.82 percent of the vote, the Central Election Commission reported on January 27, 2025. The turnout, as stated, exceeded 85.7 percent. This is Lukashenka's seventh term; he has ruled Belarus for more than 30 years. In the neighboring European Union, however, he is not recognized as a legitimate president.
