The project "Hot Russian line" intends to bring information on current problems and questions of social movements in Russia to the international audience, artistically using the concept of tactical television. The project is made in a form of five video-clips dedicated to key social topics which are: leftist movement, illegal immigration, IT development, 1st Russian Social Forum and a look from Russia at Ukraine and its orange revolution. The clips will be released gradually in a period of time from April, 8th until April, 22nd.

Young activists and community leaders produced "34 messages" during the Youth Organizing Institute held in Vukovar on October 8-14, 2004. The focus of this film-project was to find a creative use of technology to develop community building within the diverse group of students and faculty involved.

The 7th International Art+Communication festival will take place in Riga, Latvia, from September 30 - October 3, 2004. The festival will offer a space of exchange for new media practitioners and grassroots activists and who are critically exploring ideas of locality, in response to the continental European (and global) "normalization processes".

Minority Report: Challenging Intolerance in Contemporary Denmark is an interdisciplinary exhibition, which investigates the premises for the more outspoken intolerance towards and among ethnic minorities in Denmark during recent years. The show is the first in a series of recurring international art exhibitions, which the City Council of Aarhus has initiated under the heading Aarhus Festival of Contemporary Art.

For the first time football supporters organizations from seven different European countries will collaborate during the EURO 2004 football championship. The network Football Supporters International (FSI) in cooperation with FARE (Football against Racism in Europe) is organizing a fan support for football supporters from seven participating countries.

On the nettime mailinglist Felix Stalder reported from the Transeuropean Picnic on April 30th and may 1st in Novi Sad.

Movement Against Illegal Immigration (DPNI) is a new attempt by Moscow fascists to set up a respectable facade behind which to spread hate. It has had some success in its organising efforts lately, and in three regions of Moscow they have militias which cooperate with police in "search of illegal immigrants".

For the incommunicado-project Soenke Zehle has made an up-to-date compilation of ressources currently discussing the issues of free and open source software for non-profit organizations.

Open Source ideas -- that has its origins in the scientific and computer programming communities, where research is shared within a network for the common advancement of the field -- will be used to set up the context for the RAM5 workshop in Riga.

On May 1, 2004 the European Union will expand beyond its current "core Europe" constellation to include, for the first time, nations of the former Eastern and Non-Aligned Blocks. For these ten nations the 'day of accession' is the opportunity to rejoin a European sphere which, for many, was felt to have been robbed through the militarily enforced alliances of the Cold War. By recalling the pan-European Picnic of 1989 along the Austrian-Hungarian border, which induced the events leading to the collapse of the Berlin Wall, the Trans-European Picnic will mark the resultant shift in Europe's geopolitical structure. For many however, the 'opening' brought about by the events of 1989 are now to be met by 'managed closure', restricted mobility, the revival of 'visa regimes' delineating new barriers and borders as well as the imposition of new top-down regulations, bureaucracies and standards.