The World is Talking. Global Politics

Ukrainiana writes on whether Arcelor Mittal Steel's Kryvorizhstal is to change hands again.

Veni Markovski writes about CEE individuals who've made it on the World’s 10 Youngest Leaders list of the Foreign Affairs Magazine: Bulgarian PM Sergei Stanishev, Macedonian PM Nikola Gruevski, Russian president Dmitry Medvedev.

In recent years, it seems like a solution to Moldova’s long-unresolved secessionist conflict is always being forecast but never quite materializes. Meanwhile, the people who live in the unrecognized Transnistria just try to get by. At least a couple of the territory’s netizens, however, seem unhappy with some of the initiatives of their de facto government. Lyndon Allin translates their posts.

On July 7, Savva Terentyev, 22, a Russian blogger and musician, received a one-year suspended jail sentence for a comment he posted on Feb. 15, 2007, on the blog of a local journalist Boris Suranov. Below are rough translations of the comment and a small passage from the verdict, as well as an opinion poll on the impact of Terentyev’s case on the freedom of expression in the Russian blogosphere.

Barbadian blogger Cheese-on-bread! comments on the controversial cover of The New Yorker: “Some people are really scared Obama is going to be the 43rd President of the United States…”

Freedom in Bhutan on the lack of transparency in governance and how politicians make money.

All Things Pakistan wonders if Dubai in the United Arab Emirates is the new political centre for Pakistan.

Nepali Netbook sums up the political events of the last few weeks in the country - as ‘wackiest' ever in Nepali politics.

Gian Carlo Orbezo of Peru Politico [es] writes about Augusto B. Leguia, president of Peru from 1919 to 1930 and his sad end as a dictator, and the relationship to Alberto Fujimori who is now facing trials of his own.

Buxi from Fool's mountain translates a news story from China Youth Daily on how Chinese officials get online and engage netizens.