Russia
# "
Stifled By Godlessness, Then God" - Cathy Young, "Globe & Mail"
# "
Why Everyone Is Avoiding Gazprom" - Anders Aslund, "Moscow Times"
# "
What Madonna Doesn’t Get About Russia’s Punk Protest" - Leonid Bershidsky, "Bloomberg"
Iran
# "
Seeking to Cool War Fever Over Iran" - David Ignatius, "The Washington Post"
# Aaron David Miller says
Israel will not attack Iran this year
# Ban Ki Moon
may travel to Tehran for the meeting of the non-aligned movement
# Female students
are being shut out of some fields
Afghanistan/Pakistan
# "
The Taliban's Wedge Strategy" - Benjamin Jensen, "International Herald Tribune"
# It's tough to
get paid in Pakistan
# Knox Thames on
promoting religious tolerance in Afghanistan
# "
Pakistan's Briefcase Warriors" - Ilhan Niaz, "Foreign Affairs"
# "
The Life and Films of Ashok Mehta" - Gautam Chintamani, "Dawn"
Of Interest
#
Measuring impact in journalism
# Al Qaeda is
making a comeback in Iraq
# "
The Media Cold War" - Anne-Marie Slaughter, "Project Syndicate"
# "
Three Thorny Paths to Saving the Euro" - Stefan Kaiser, "Der Spiegel"
#
Minorities is Syria are being drawn into the fighting
U.S. Politics/Foreign Policy
# 2,000 U.S.
troops have died in Afghanistan (
faces of the dead in Iraq and Afghanistan)
# Niall Ferguson
responds to criticism over his recent
"Newsweek" piece