Just two days after the results of Iran's presidential election were announced, an Iranian hip hop artist has released a rap in response. Listen to it here...

 

"X-Plain", a fake hip-hop group from Israel, is causing a stir with this rap, which turns Israel's justification for its offensive in Gaza on its head. See the clip...

Rap is banned in Iran. But for the past five years, young rappers have risked using the internet to share their music, which is becoming increasingly popular. Iranian expats tell us why Iran's youth is so taken with the style. Read more and watch the video clips...

All in good humour, a soldier wrote and recorded a parody of Eminem's "Stan" - this time about daily life in the Russian army. As a result, he managed to win himself a one-way ticket to Russia's far eastern wastelands. See the clip and read more.

Poor Puff Daddy, the lucrative American rapper also known as Sean Puff Diddy Combs, has posted a diary entry about the woes of increasing gas prices on his blog. He's even made a plea to his Saudi "brothers and sisters" to send some oil for his jet. See the video...

Fox News has been slammed as a "racist propaganda machine" by rapper Nas, who's written an entire song about the channel. He yesterday tried to deliver 620,000 signatures to Fox owners News Corp from webusers who believe the network to be anti-black and unfair to Obama. But the petition was refused. Read more...

"Le Brigadier" (the police sergeant) is a French rapper who keeps his identity well hidden. And with good reason - he claims to work as a policeman in the suburbs of Paris. Rapping about police blunders hasn't gone down well with the rest of the force though, leading to an internal enquiry into his identification. Read more...

Far from the gold chains and bimbos of American video clips, Abraham Bojorquez raps to his American Indian fans at 4000 metres above sea level. Read more…

Material compiled by our Russian/ former-USSR regional editor, Maria Antonova

In September, President Putin's United Russia party launched a paper campaign across Russia. The slogan: "Putin's Plan - Victory for Russia" (Plane Puntina - Pobeda Rossii). Internet users react to these posters and booklets distributed in the street by members of the party.