Kremlin aims to create universal wiki-based history schoolbook

This is a saved article initially prepared for Wikinews, but it was abandoned due to lack of English language sources.

Top Russian officials, headed by President Vladimir Putin, declared an intention to create a unified school textbook on Russian history, primarily by using Wiki technology, along with other measures on "re-thinking of Russian history" while celebrating 400 years of the House of Romanov. This was announced at a Russian Historical Society (RHS) meeting in Moscow Kremlin, where high-ranked statesmen admitted problems with modern Russian historical education and attempted to find a solution.

No Front Panel Sound in Ubuntu with Intel Card and VIA Chip?

No front panel sound in Ubuntu with Intel card and VIA chip? A common problem! I have solved it (with VIA VT1705 chip)! See here: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=12529610

USA behaviour

Barak Obama supposedly have same-sex sexual intercourse cases despite having a wife. B. Clinton is a Saint before him. USA what are you doing? USA prosperity is based on total global robbing. USA authorities are criminals (they break their own laws that forbid robbing). They also publish false money. USA citizens share the responsibility for that. Their mortgage system caused 2008 global money crisis. This is mainly due to "mason" nature of power in the USA. As the president is gay, he is probably nervous and unstable in behavior. Praise God he has wise non-gay advisors. That, for example, won't let him start an, e.g., nuclear war (Nostradamus supposedly has some words on that).

In the meantime, The UK/Canada/Australia peoples' responsibility holds their Queen.

HUGE set of SPLENDID brand-new Ekaterinburg aerial photos! Oh My Gosh!!!

Watch them right now: http://ekb.livejournal.com/793735.html

2 Uzbekistani hip hop songs

I like these Uzbek hip hop songs very much, you may listen to them right now, just press Play (don't be scared of advertising banners, this is because of free online player feature).

An English guide to Middle Urals

Meet the website AskUral.com — the illustrated English language guide to Middle Urals "backbone" region of Russia where Europe/Asia border is stretched. The capital of the Urals is the glorious city of Ekaterinburg, former Sverdlovsk, which welcomes guests (visit AskUral.com for info on how to visit) and is an expected venue for Expo 2020 World Fair!

'The Best Of Russia' photo set

See "The Best Of Russia" series of magnificent photos made in Russia in 2008—2011 at http://live-imho.livejournal.com/160261.html (the original website is http://thebestofrussia.ru/). Very impressive!

Political Wikipedism

In the course of Russia's current political troubles, I propose and promote a concept I call "political wikipedism". This deals with use of Wikipedia (as well as Open Source software) help-each-other experience to achieve political and social improvements in the country. I consider this a real and efficient way to happy life for everyone (Russians nowadays massively express desire for that).

Readers in US, Russia, Germany and India are the most pleased with Wikipedia Article Quality

Read the story "Readers in US, Russia, Germany and India are the most pleased with Wikipedia Article Quality" at http://blog.wikimedia.org/2011/11/09/wikipedia-quality/

GNOME woes continued

Oh my gosh... Now, I am close to conclusion that KDE is, finally, better than GNOME 3. KDE beats GNOME... Voilà!

More Alina Bashirova

More amazing songs by Tatar pop singer Alina Bashirova (Алина Баширова, Алинә Бәширова). She is very talented, I like her very much!

Akademichesky residential zone

Akademichesky is an innovative residential zone being constructed in Ekaterinburg, Russia. See the photo album by clicking the picture.

GNOME → XFCE (Unity woes)

God is the witness, I honestly tried to adopt Unity desktop environment for Ubuntu Linux, two times, and failed (Ubuntu forces Unity instead of older GNOME which now doesn't work with fresh 11.10 release). Unity is very awkward to me, and I suspect heavy Macintosh influence in it, and in my opinion Apple Corporation is a greedy sect worse than Microsoft. While I am in favor of Open Source / Wikipedia help-each-other principles (known in South Africa as Ubuntu). After all, I've found that XFCE environment works, possibly, even better than GNOME, so I'm gonna be an Ubuntu XFCE user from now on.

Ekaterinburg Expo 2020 bid blog

Watch the new blog!

http://expo2020-ekaterinburg.blogspot.com

Yes!

Russia to propose Yekaterinburg as Expo 2020 venue

16:33 02/08/2011 Russia will propose the Urals city of Yekaterinburg as a candidate to host the World Expo 2020 international exhibition, presidential Aide Arkady Dvorkovich told reporters on Tuesday.>>

Other news of the day

Alina Bashirova

I have discovered another excellent Tatar Pop Music video, "Sin, sin diep" by Alina Bashirova http://kiwi.kz/watch/wnw7ovtssr42/

Mapping the Russian Blogosphere

Read the announce of the upcoming report on research I participated in:

http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/2010/10/russiaDC

Hosted by USIP’s Center of Innovation for Science, Technology & Peacebuilding, experts from Harvard University’s Berkman Center for Internet & Society and Morningside Analytics will present their new research on the Russian blogosphere, while prominent Russia experts and notable bloggers will respond. The research team mapped this extensive social network, analyzing over 11,000 Russian language blogs to understand how politics is discussed, by whom, and if there is evidence of political and social mobilization in the blogosphere. The team also analyzed the blogosphere’s place within the overall Russian online and traditional media ecology, including discussion of top political YouTube videos.

update: Here's the permanent page for the project which now features Russian translation of the report (in PDF).

Хәния Фәрхи «Туган як» (Хания Фархи)

More photos

I have updated my photo galleries with several regional albums. Among the updates are:

Stavropol, Rostov-on-Don, Mirny, Yekaterinburg, Karelia, Sukhum, Delhi, Varanasi

and also the updated Phone Stuck Stock featuring Moscow smog photos; see the entire photo collection here

Myths & Facts

While Russian President Medvedev tells world leaders at Economic Forum in St. Petersburg how modernized and civilized Russia is, see what is going on in Russia in reality:

http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Russia's_main_airport_faces_high_danger_from_dump_birds

Rostov-on-Don Wiki-Conference 2010 - Meta

Rostov-on-Don Wiki-Conference 2010 - Meta: On May 8 and 9, 2010, the Russian-language IV Wiki-Conference was held in Rostov-on-Don city in the South of Russia. The first day location was Donskaya State Public Library and the second day discussions took place in the Artistic Photography School.

The event was organized with the support from Wikimedia Russia and gathered about 40 participants from different Russian cities. 9 reports were presented and 3 panel discussions held.

Russian language material on the meetup can be found at ru:Википедия:Вики-конференция 2010.

See information on other Russian Wiki-Conferences at Events#Wiki-Conference in Russia.