RFE/RL In The Media
# "Registan" and "UPI" quote RFE/RL coverage of elections in Turkmenistan
# "The Huffington Post" cites RFE/RL reporting on FEMEN in Ukraine

International Press Review

Russia
# "We Want Reforms, Not Revolution" - Vladimir Ryzhkov, "Moscow Times"
# "The New York Times" reports on state TV in Russia
# Russia expelled a French journalist

Iran
# Israel says Iran is to blame for bombings in Georgia and India
# "Obama's Dangerous Game With Iran" - Klaidman, Lake, & Ephron, "Newsweek"
# "Letter Writers Break Iranian Taboo" - Farnaz Fassihi, "The Wall Street Journal"

Afghanistan/Pakistan
# "War Without Accountability" - Kate Clark, Afghan Analysts Network
# "Pakistan's Supreme Court vs. Everybody" - Omar Waraich, "Time"
# "Kabul Risks Political Meltdown" - Haroun Mir, "International Herald Tribune"

Technology
# Twitter and the shrinking news cycle
# Regulators have approved Google's takeover of Motorola
# iPhone factories in China will be audited

RFE/RL In The Media
# "The Atlantic" links to RFE/RL reporting on the Internet slow-down in Iran
# RFE/RL intern Deana Kjuka reports on baby boxes in the Caech Republic

International Press Review

Russia
# "The Snow Revolution’s Orange Shadow" - Anders Åslund, "Project Syndicate"
# The "Financial Times" on oligarch Suleiman Kerimov
# "Putin 4.0" - Editorial, "The Wall Street Journal"
# Victor Davidoff compares Nashi to Cosa Nostra

Iran
# "No Hotline to Tehran" - Bilal Y. Saab, "National Interest"
# The Turkish Foreign Minister says Iran is ready to cut a deal
# The U.S. Navy says Iran is preparing "suicide boats"

Afghanistan/Pakistan
# "Hardnews (In.)" interviews Imran Khan
# Yousaf Reza Gilani has been charged with contempt
# Casualties are higher for contractors than for soldiers in Afghanistan

Broadcast Region
# "AFP" reports on guns and fighters moving from Iraq to Syria
# Michael Dobbs tracks the Srebrenica massacre
# Nathan Hamm on the SNB in Uzbekistan

Of Interest
# "The Ethics of Internet Piracy" - Peter Singer, "Project Syndicate"
# Osama bin Laden reportedly told his kids to go get an education in America

U.S. Politics/Foreign Policy
# "Obama, Explained" - James Fallows, "The Atlantic"
# "Why The World Needs America" - Robert Kagan, "The Wall Street Journal"
# The "PBS Newshour" analysis of Shields and Brooks

RFE/RL In The Media
# Reuters Trust reprints a RFE/RL report on a 14-year sentence for Mehdi Khazali

International Press Review

Russia
# Vladimir Putin may dissolve United Russia
# The Chechnya Interior Ministry knows how to spend money
# "A Veto Worthy of the Brezhnev Era" - Phillip Stevens, "Financial Times"
# "Why Russia Supports Assad" - Dmitry Trenin, "The New York Times"
# "Spiegel" reports on Russian youth

Iran
# "NBC" reports Israel is cooperating with the People's Mujahadin of Iran
# "How to Defeat Iran" - George J. Gilboy, "National Interest"
# Uri Friedman parses Rick Santorum on Iran

Pakistan
# The ISI is facing scrutiny over disappearances
# "Pakistan’s Most Dangerous Place" - Zahid Hussain, "Wilson Quarterly"

Afghanistan
# "The Wall Street Journal" reports on USAID efforts to build roads
# Peter Tomsen on negotiating a lasting peace in Afghanistan
# "Occupy Afghanistan" - Malou Innocent, "National Interest"

Of Interest
# Iraq is trying tourism
# "We are the Media and so are You" - Wales & Walsh, "The Washington Post"
# "It's Time to Arm the Syrian Opposition" - Dan Drezner, "The New Republic"

U.S. Politics/Foreign Policy
# What to "democracy promoters" actually do?
# Democracy promotion groups are not as welcome as before
# The FBI released Steve Jobs' file

RFE/RL In The Media
# "Spiegel" mentions restrictions on RFE/RL broadcasting in Azerbaijan
# "Time" and "Business Insider" cite RFE/RL's Russian Service reporting on payments for pro-Putin protesters in Russia
# "Business Insider" cites RFE/RL reporting on a strike at Kyrgyzstan's biggest gold mine

International Press Review

Russia
# "The Guardian" reports on the leaked Nashi emails (more here in Russian)
# "Russia's Potemkin Democracy" - Anne Applebaum, "The Washington Post"
# "The Washington Post" reprints Vladimir Putin's "Kommersant" op-ed
# "Putin Without Putinism" - Anders Aslund, "Foreign Policy"
# "A Dead Man’s Tale of Russian Justice" - Robert Shrimsley, "Financial Times"

Iran
# "It's Time to Bypass Iran's 'Supreme Leader'" - Mehdi Khalaji, "The Wall Street Journal"
# Sanctions are "cutting deep" in Iran (Gallup polling data)
# "Iran's Achilles' Heel" - Efraim Halevy, "The New York Times"

Afghanistan
# A photo gallery on deaths of young people in Afghanistan
# "The 80% Solution" - Thomas Lynch III, "Foreign Policy"
# "AFP" reports on fewer foreign fighters in the Afghanistan/Pakistan border region

Of Interest
# Kurmanbek Bakiyev may be staying in Belarus for the long haul (RU)
# "The Dregs of Dictatorship" - Mohamed Nasheed, "The New York Times"

Technology
# Facebook will release more details on how it collects user data
# BBC journalists have been told NOT to break stories on Twitter

RFE/RL In The Media
# "The Wall Street Journal" cites RFE/RL reporting on bribery charges n Kazakhstan
# "Le Point (Fr.)" cites Golnaz Esfandiari's reporting on Facebook in Iran

International Press Review

Russia
# Sergei Lavrov is set to travel to Damascus
# "Russia's Line in the Sand on Syria" - Dmitry Trenin, "Foreign Affairs"
# "The Ice is Cracking Under Putin" - Gideon Rachman, "Financial Times"
# "Divided Russia" - Raymond Sontag, "American Interest"

Iran
# The U.S. froze transactions by Iran's Central Bank
# Iran's middle class is feeling the effects of sanctions
# "Iran Sill Strike Back" - Abdo & Akbari, "Inside Iran"

Afghanistan/Pakistan
# The U.S. Congree will hold a hearing on Balochistan
# "Truth, lies and Afghanistan" - LT. Col. Daniel Davis, "Armed Forces Journal"
# "An Elusive Enemy" - John R. Schmidt, "National Interest"

Of Interest
# The BBC reports from inside Homs, Syria
# Robin Mills on Europe's continuing energy supply issues
# Jay Ulfelder on GDP and democracy

Technology
# 10 things you should know about Facebook
# "Of 'Tech Titans' and Schumpeter's Vision" - Adam Thierer, "Forbes"

U.S. Politics/Foreign Policy
# "The New York Times" on U.S.-funded aid groups abroad
# Jane Mayer on attack ads in American politics

RFE/RL In The Media
# "The Huffington Post" cites RFE/RL reporting on the FEMEN group in Ukraine
# "EurasiaNet" on what happens after people speak with RFE/RL's Turkmenistan Service

International Press Review

Russia
# "A Strategy for Russia’s Snow Revolution" - Mischa Gabowitsch, "Project Syndicate"
# Simon Shuster on the Mikhail Prokhorov campaign
# "Sort of, but Not Really" - Thomas Friedman, "The New York Times"

Iran
# "Le Monde" profiles Mohsen Fakrizadeh

Afghanistan/Pakistan
# An investigative report says drones have targetted civilians and first responders
# "The Coming Civil War in Afghanistan" - Arif Rafiq, "Foreign Policy"
# "Unanswered Questions on Afghanistan" - Christopher Preble, "National Interest"
# "the New York Times" reports on Lt. Col. Daniel L. Davis

Of Interest
# Egypt syays it will put 19 American NGO workers on trial
# "Defeating Dictators" - Alec Russell, "Financial Times"
# "The Cultural Contradictions of Democracy" - Vladislav Inozemtsev, "American Interest"

Technology
# A conference call between the FBI and Scotland Yard was intercepted by Anonymous
# Should Facebook users get a cut of the company's IPO?
# "The Death of the Cyberflâneur" - Evgeny Morozov, "The New York Times"
# @Twitter is as addictive as #alcohol and #cigarettes

U.S. Politics/Foreign Policy
# "Who Reviews the U.S. Kill List?" - Doyle McManus, "LA Times" 
# The "PBS Newshour" analysis of Shields and Brooks

RFE/RL In The Media
# "France 24" cites Golnaz Esfandiari's reporting on Iran
# "The Atlantic" links to RFE/RL's Armenian Service's video on the Yerevan Putin fan club

International Press Review

Russia
# "The Wall Street Journal" reports on the activism of Grigory Chkhartishvili
# Russia will continue to sell arms to Syria
# Miriam Elder on the punk band Pussy Riot
# It's going to be cold in Moscow this weekend

Iran
# The Iranian regime is trying to re-brand the "Arab Spring"
# The Council on Foreign Relations on managing a potential oil crisis
# U.S. officials raised new warnings about Iran and al Qaeda
# David Ignatius on a potential Israeli strike on Iran

Broadcast Region
# "Foreign Policy" interviews Mikheil Saakashvili
# Will Azerbaijan change its name?
# Some cool Cold War satellite photos
# Thousands are stranded by heavy snow in rural Serbia

Of Interest
# 10 questions on Tumblr's new editorial project
# "Reuters" introduces its Social Pulse web feature
# Just because: "The Guardian" interviews David Lee Roth

U.S. Politics/Foreign Policy
# This is what passes for news in 2012
# Michael Cohen on the politics of the U.S. leaving Afghanistan