RFE/RL In The Media
# "The Telegraph" (via the "AP")
cites RFE/RL's interview with Yevhenia Tymoshenko
# The Reuters Trust
reprints Brian Whitmore's piece on the Russian media landscape
International Press Review
Iran
# "
The Drift Toward War With Iran" - Gideon Rachman, "Financial Times"
# "
India Lets U.S. Down With Iran" - R. Nicholas Burns, "The Diplomat"
Russia
# Dmitry Medvedev met with
members of the opposition
# PODCAST: Julia Ioffe on
Mikhail Prokorhov
# "
Real Estate Envy" - Masha Gessen, "The New York Times"
# "
Rogozin's Three-Ring Circus" - Alexander Golts, "Moscow Times"
Afghanistan/Pakistan
# The man who collects the
Taliban's war dead
# "
The Pitfalls of Negotiations in AfPak" - Weinbaum & Farwell, "National Interest"
# "
Peace in Kashmir?" - Shashi Tharoor, "Project Syndicate"
# "
The Storytellers of Empire" - Kamila Shamsie, "Guernica"
Broadcast Region
# "
The Many Faces of Radovan Karadzic" - Michael Dobbs, "Foreign Policy"
# REPORT (.pdf): "
Central Asia's Crisis of Governance" - Philip Shishkin, Asia Society
Science
# Russian scientists
generated a living plant from a specimen that had been dead for 32,000 years
# Neil Stephenson on
human progress
Of Interest
# "
Is This the End of Market Democracy?" - Thomas Edsall, "The New York Times"
# How Poland (and others) are dealing with
the Communist era
U.S. Politics/Foreign Policy
# "The New Yorker" on the
Ron Paul campaign
# "
Obama's Secret Army" - Daniel Klaidman, "Newsweek"
# "Politico" on
Leon Panetta's public statements on Iran