News sources in English for those following Georgia - South Osetia - Russia conflict:
Interprressnews - Georgian news agency, gives most up-to-date news in real time. Use temporary login ‘ipn’ and password ‘5894′ to access all full-text news.
Rustavi 2 - Georgian independent TV channel. If successful enough you may access their video (i wasn’t).
RIAN and ITAR-TASS [...]
Rostislav Vylegzhanin of Center for Internet Politics and Evgenyi Savin; of SUP inspired by Blogcamp CIS and Baltics 2007 in Kyiv chose an unusual place for Russia’s biggest barcamp. Some 450 geeks spent up to five days in yurts and tipis 90 kilometers away from Moscow.
The venue was Ethnomir (EthnoWorld), an open-air ethnic museum/hotel. Participants of [...]
Ukrainiana: Akhmetov, Net Worth $31.1B, Named Richest Man in Ukraine, CIS, EU
Summary: According to recent research by Dragon Capital and Korresponent magazine Rinat Akhmetov of Ukraine is becoming the richest person of Europe with USD 31.1 billion assets. Second richest Viktor Pinchuk with $8.8B is sponsoring Paul McCartney’s open air concert tonight in Kyiv.
Seedcamp blog: [...]
Two projects proposed by Eastern Europeans became winners of Knight News Challenge 2008 supporting innovative initiatives in social media.
Project receiving $600,000 award presented as…
The people of Sochi, the Russian resort city hosting the 2014 Winter Olympics, will be able to use the latest online tools to both discuss and influence the impact of the [...]