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RFE/RL in the Media
# Al Kamen discusses the Broadcasting Board of Governors# Andrew Sullivan reprints an RFE/RL report on the Afghan elections # UPI reports on Azerbaijan's resource diplomacyOn the RFE/RL Website
# A Profile of the Jundallah extremist group# Looming obstacles to elections in AfghanistanInt'l Press Review
Afghanistan
# The WSJ ed board on U.S. allies in Afghanistan# The Newshour reports on the runoff elections # Thane Rosenbaum on revenge as a motive# The NYT ed board on the runoff elections# Roger Cohen advocates endurance on Afghanistan Iran
# Iran sentenced American academic Kian Tajbakhsh to 15 years # Massoumeh Torfeh on why Iran always blames outsiders# Jamsheed Choksy on the Jundallah groupRussia
# Fyodor Lukyanov on Russia's Georgia problemU.S. Politics/Foreign Policy
# " Embassy Row" - the Washington Times # Joe Biden is the " reassurer-in-chief"
From the Blogs
# Jean MacKenzie on Karzai's statesmanship... # ...The New Yorker chimes in
Global 
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U.S. President Barack Obama's top Russia adviser has said that diplomats from Washington and Moscow will likely meet in the coming weeks to work on a new UN Security Council draft resolution targeting the Syrian government over its bloody crackdown on antigovernment protesters. more
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More than 500 protesters have gathered in Moscow's Pushkin Square to demand more government funding for science and scientists in Russia. more
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Anders Hjemdahl of the Stockholm-based Institute for Information on the Crimes of Communism talked to RFE/RL about why Western Europeans seem to know so little about the communist past. more
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The Paris prosecutor's office has dropped an investigation into a French writer's claim that former International Monetary Fund chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn tried to rape her. more
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A prominent member of a Russian anarchist street-art collective who faced jail for overturning a police car has had the charges against him lifted. more
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The Slovak parliament has approved expanding the powers of the European Union's bailout fund. more
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A Prague court has ruled that former Belarusian presidential candidate Ales Mikhalevich should not be extradited to Belarus. more
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