RFE/RL In The Media
# Read RFE/RL in "The Atlantic" on
terrorists and social media, the
Kremlin fight against Aleksei Navalny, and the
U.S. pullout from Afghanistan
# "Al-Monitor"
cites RFE/RL reporting on Syrian Kurds in Iraq
# "The Atlantic"
cites RFE/RL reporting on Kosovo
# An editorial by "The Washington Post"
discusses RFE/RL in Russia
# "Wired"
cites RFE/RL reporting on dashcams in Russia
International Press Review
Iran
# Iran will set up a
$4bn oil refinery in Gwadar
# "
Make Tehran a Serious Offer" - Yousaf Butt, "National Interest"
# "
Iran Can’t Agree to a Damn Thing" - Patrick Clawson, "Foreign Policy"
# Nigeria claims it has
broken up an Iranian terror cell
Russia
# Russia has
offered to mediate talks with Syria
# "
Putin Declares War on Sleaze" - Anna Nemtsova, "Foreign Policy"
# Inside the
Pussy Riot letters
Afghanistan/Pakistan
# Australia has
offered asylum to 2,500 Hazara families
# Senior Taliban commander
Maulvi Faqir Mohammad has been arrested
# "
The US Needs a Mediator for Afghanistan" - Ahmed Rashid, "Financial Times"
# The Asian Human Rights Commission on
sectarian killings in Pakistan
# Great
photos from Afghanistan
RFE/RL Target Region
# A Tajik
journalist was stabbed in Moscow
# "
The Women of Stalin's Gulag" - Paul Gregory, "Real Clear World"
Of Interest
# J.M. Berger on
terrorists and social media (
RFE/RL's take on the issue)
# The
detective investigating Oscar Pistorius is facing 7 counts of attempted murder
# The
Oxford comma and the Internet
Science/Tech
#
Immortality through Twitter is finally possible
# Some
nice conspiracy theories about the Russian meteorite
# The
universe is finite, everybody panic
U.S. Politics/Foreign Policy
# U.S.
aid to The Caucasus and Central Asia will decrease
# "
Wooing Russia and its Influence" - David Ignatius, "The Washington Post"