A first look at the news on RFE/RL's broadcast region
RFE/RL in the Media
# THE WSJ cites RFE/RL's Hamid Karzai interview# Spencer Ackerman cites the Karzai interview as well# Eurasianet on international broadcasting in Azerbaijan # Press TV on US broadcasting to Iran
On the RFE/RL Website
# An interview with Hamid Karzai# A report on the OSCE's press freedom ombudsmanInt'l Press Review
Sunday Morning Talk Shows
# The analysis of Shields & Brooks # Meet the Press discusses Afghanistan # Valerie Jarrett on This Week
Afghanistan/Pakistan
# Abdullah Abdullah pulls out of the Afghan election # Hillary Clinton discusses Pakistan on the Newshour Russia
# Richard Lourie on press freedom in Russia # The Times (UK) doesn't see Russia as a partner # Anna Nemtsova thinks there is still a war in the Caucasus # Yuri Fedotov thinks the U.K & Russia can get along # Russia will put 4000 more troops in the N. Caucasus
Iran
# Jackson Diehl on Iran's opposition U.S. Politics/Foreign Policy
# Les Gelb on Obama's foreign policy # Al Kamen's " In the Loop" The Fall of the Wall
# Josef Joffe was there at the rise and at the fall # Gerard DeGroot on the culture of Eastern Europe # Mary Sarotte on why the Wall fell # Janet Daley says we haven't learned from the end of communism
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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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