By Siobhan Courtney

Welcome to The Buzz, our weekly round up of how the stories we report are being talked about in the blogosphere, twitterverse and other social media.

Can he do it? He thinks he can, and the "he" I am talking about is Joachim or Joaquim Crima (depending what source you are reading from).

Joachim Crima is defying the racists in Russia by running for office

Newsnight went to meet the watermelon seller from Guinea Bissau, who is hoping to be the first black man ever to be elected to public office in Russia.

There is loads of talk about him online - posters on the forums at southerngospel.com started the thread Joaquim Crima: Russia's own Obama? However, the thread does deviate slightly, as posters go on to discuss why Obama ice cream in Russia would be perceived as racist in America, but a "bit of fun" in Russia.

Hiphopmusic.com are right behind Mr Crima, saying, it maybe a little easier for the next immigrant who runs for office in Russia after Joaquim Crima broke the ice.

The SpiceIslander Talk Shop talks about the "Unlikely Story of Joaquim Crima", with one post saying that we are still in a racism-led society.

Sean's Russia Blog picks up on something that BBC Moscow reporter Rupert Wingfield-Hayes spotted, that Mr Crima, who has adopted the name Vasilii Ivanovich, promises "to toil like a negro" for his constituents in his campaign slogans.

And there is someone claiming to be Mr Crima on Twitter although with tweets like "I can see Alaska from my home town... whoa!!!" The Buzz, suspects it is not the real Mr Crima!

Susan Watts travelled to Bletchley Park this week to report on wartime code-breaker Alan Turing.

Turing was a key player in the wartime code-breaking effort at Beltchley Park

Turing was chemically castrated for admitting to his homosexuality, which some say led to his suicide. Now than 27,000 people have signed a petition to the Prime Minister seeking a formal apology and posthumous pardon.

Shouting At Street Lights doubts that an official apology to Turing is likely, as he has no known surviving family. However, Susan Watts did speak to some of Turing's relatives, which you can read about in her blog.

Tuesday Night Out simply states "Turing has not been recognised" and urges people to sign the petition.

Cozy Beehive heaps praise on Turing declaring him arguably the greatest computer scientist Britain ever produced.

Feminist Philosophers starts their blog by saying it is so easy to forget what cruelty our recent history holds.

Care2 describes Turing as A Gay War Hero The UK Government "Hounded to Death". The author asks why this campaign has garnered such international focus when many thought it would only ever be an internal British matter.

Sexuality and Love in the Arts concludes by saying that after Turing admitted his homosexuality the state responded by castrating him reputationally, sexually, innovatively, and occupationally.

Not Anonymous's first sentence under an entry titled Posthumous Justice for Alan Turing says "this is possibly the most optimistic piece of news that came my way today".

And poster Lev responding to the The League of Ordinary Gentlemen's post on Turing's achievements and the campaign for a pardon says: "As a tech guy, I pretty much owe my job to Alan Turing."

Here is a Jeremy Paxman challenging, in his own indomitable style, Scotland's First Minister Alex Salmond over the Scottish government's decision to release Lockerbie bomber Abdelbaset Ali al-Megrahi.

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