RFE/RL In The Media
# "
The Washington Post" and "
World Affairs Journal" report on RFE/RL's Radio Svoboda in Russia
# "
The Express Tribune" and "
Daily Times" (PK) cite RFE/RL's interviews with Husain Haqqani
# "GlobalPost"
cites RFE/RL reporting on Yulia Tymoshenko
# "UPI"
cites RFE/RL reporting on the Georgia prisoner abuse scandal
# David Ignatius
cites RFE/RL reporting from Armenia
# The "NYDN"
cites RFE/RL reporting on an Iranian cleric getting beat up
International Press Review
Russia
# Rachel Denber on
Russia's new law on treason
# Jailed Pussy Riot members are
set to appeal their sentences
# Catherine Belton on
infighting in the Kremlin
# Germany has indicted
two Russian spies
Iran
# "
Iran Talk: What's in a War" - Fallon, Hagel, et al, "The Washington Post"
# A court in Iran has
found a "Reuters" journalist guilty of "spreading lies"
# "
The Great Persian Firewall" - Art Keller, "Foreign Policy"
# RAND: "
Containing Iran"
# For a laugh: poor, poor
Fars news does not adhere to the
first rule of holes
Afghanistan/Pakistan
# U.S. and Afghan troops
fought each other over the weekend
# Exxon has yet to inspect
Afghanistan's largest oil deposit
# Intermedia's report from earlier this year on
reporting in northwest Pakistan
Georgia Elections
# In-house
coverage by Daisy Sindelar and RFE/RL's Georgian Service
# Ellen Barry says Georgians
hit the polls fearing fraud
# "
A Battle Between Dictators and Dreamers" - Walter Mayr, "Der Spiegel"
RFE/RL Broadcast Region
# "
The Opacity of Central Asia" - Ilan Greenberg, "National Interest"
# How Nuri al-Maliki is
juggling Tehran, Washington, and Syria
# "EurasiaNet" on
hockey in Ust-Kamenogorsk, Kazakhstan
Of Interest
# When is the
best time to do everything?
# "
The Highs and Hazards of Hacktivism" - Padraig Reidy, "Irish Times"
# Tunisia's president on the state of the
Arab Spring
U.S. Politics/Foreign Policy
# "
Not Even the White House Knows the Drones’ Body Count" - Noah Shachtman, "Wired"
# The "PBS Newshour" analysis of
Shields and Brooks
# U.S. Congressman Howard Berman
wants to suspend Azerbaijan from NATO's Partnership for Peace Program
# "Bloomberg" tests the
FOIA program (spoiler alert: FOIA fails)