RFE/RL In The Media
# Read RFE/RL in "The Atlantic" on
new rules for the Russian political elite
# RFE/RL's Golnaz Esfandiari
was interviewed by the Italian daily "L'Espresso"
# "The Huffington Post"
cites RFE/RL reporting on a controversial hug in Caracas
International Press Review
Iran
# Iran
may promise the UN that it will not seek nuclear weapons
# A UN investigator raps Iran over
arrests of journalists and other things in the lead-up to elections
# "
Iran Can’t Follow North Korea’s Nuclear Example" -- Meir Javendafar, "The Diplomat"
# "
A Colorful New Vision of Old Iranian Folklore" -- Steven Heller, "The Atlantic"
# Iran wants to
sue over "Argo" -- does it
have a case?
Russia
# Andrei Lugovoi
will not talk to British investigators in the Litvinenko case
# "
The World Needs to Understand Putin" -- Alexandr Dugin, "Financial Times"
# "
The Putin Doctrine" -- Leon Aron, "Foreign Affairs"
# Russian hackers
may have been responsible for hacking Michelle Obama, Beyonce, and others
Afghanistan/Pakistan
# "
Karzai’s Bet: Vilifying U.S." -- Alissa Rubin, "The New York Times"
# The Taliban are
stopping polio vaccinations in Afghanistan
# Christian leaders in Lahore say the population had
received several threats
# Afghanistan has asked Australia
not to return failed asylum-seeking Hazaras
# The Afghan Army needs to face reality on
civilian casualties
RFE/RL Target Region
# "
The Iraq War That Might Have Been" -- Gordon & Trainor, "Foreign Policy"
# U.S. intelligence thinks
Central Asia's threats are internal
# Can't get enough of those
old war bunkers in Albania
Of Interest
# "
Preventing an Arctic Cold War" -- Paul Arthur Berkman, "The New York Times"
# Five corporate
enemies of the Internet
# Pictures of children with their
most-prized posessions
Science & Technology
# "
Welcome to Facebook's Mid-Life Crisis" -- John Herman, "Buzzfeed"
#
Self-healing hardware exists
# Life almost certainly could have existed on
Mars
U.S. Politics/Foreign Policy
# Congressman Paul Ryan has
released his budget proposal
# "
What Vali Nasr Gets Wrong" -- Sarah Chayes, "Foreign Policy"
# Listen to Bradley Manning's
full opening statement