A first look at the news on RFE/RL's broadcast region
RFE/RL in the Media
# Nazenin Ansari & Jonathan Paris discuss Iran and Radio Farda # Democracy Digest reprints Jeff Gedmin's Berlin Wall oped
On the RFE/RL Website
# The 20th anniversary of the fall of the Wall # Islamic leaders make headway on climate change
Int'l Press Review
Iran
# Abbas Milani on the Green Movement # TIME on the media wars in Iran # Hossein Askari thinks Iran is at the tipping point # A profile of an Iranian journalist arrested in Iftar # The Washington Post ed board on Iran's stalling
Afghanistan/Pakistan
# Ellen Goodman on Afghan women and the burqa # Nader Mousavizadeh says Afghanistan is at civil war # Elise Jordan on Obama's false assumptions in Afghanistan # Andrew Exum compiles Afghan strategies
1989
# The Berlin Walls of today # Roderic Braithwaite on the role of Mikhail Gorbachev # Josef Joffe on German reunification # A photo essay of 1989
U.S. Politics/Foreign Policy
# Al Kamen's " In the Loop" # " Embassy Row" - the Washington Times # FP interviews the UN's John Holmes
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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