Matt on September 4th, 2008

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Matt on August 30th, 2008

Sorry for the recent downtime folks. I upgraded our server and came across a whole set of problems because of the move. Looks like everything is back up and running though. Missing a few plugins but we’ll have them back up shortly.

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Matt on August 22nd, 2008

Following the early days of the Georgian crisis, an Estonian news special sought to find out what Estonia’s Russian population thought about the Russian presence in South Ossetia and Georgia. They discovered that many of the Russians in Eastern Estonia have been getting their news directly from Russian state-influenced news sources rather than from international [...]

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Matt on August 12th, 2008

Good friends recently told us that their young son turned off the TV because the news was frightening him. He’s not the only one who has been scared. Georgia and South Ossetia may be a long way from Estonia, but even so we follow the Georgian conflict with a chill up our spines. Why?

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