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A sixth would-be candidate, Djamalik Ayba, withdrew his application before the November 2 deadline. http://www.rferl.org/content/Five_Presidential_Candidates_Registered_In_Abkhazia/1872025.html http://www.rferl.org/content/Five_Presidential_Candidates_Registered_In_Abkhazia/1872025.html Sat, 07 Nov 2009 15:15:40 +0000 Caucasus Report http://www.rferl.org/content/Five_Presidential_Candidates_Registered_In_Abkhazia/1872025.html#relatedInfoContainer U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Phillip Gordon says that in less than a year, U.S. foreign policy under President Barack Obama has brought a stronger relationship with Europe, more constructive dealings with Russia, and much-needed engagement with Iran. http://www.rferl.org/content/Senior_US_Diplomat_Says_Obama_ForeignPolicy_Approach_Paying_Off/1871972.html http://www.rferl.org/content/Senior_US_Diplomat_Says_Obama_ForeignPolicy_Approach_Paying_Off/1871972.html Sat, 07 Nov 2009 13:42:01 +0000 News NATO forces mistakenly killed seven Afghan soldiers and police in an air strike during a battle while searching for two missing U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan, the Afghan Defense Ministry said. http://www.rferl.org/content/Seven_Afghans_Killed_During_Missing_US_Troops_Search/1871939.html http://www.rferl.org/content/Seven_Afghans_Killed_During_Missing_US_Troops_Search/1871939.html Sat, 07 Nov 2009 13:02:46 +0000 News Afghanistan has accused the United Nations of intervening in the formation of President Hamid Karzai's next cabinet, less than a week into his new term. http://www.rferl.org/content/Afghanistan_Hits_Back_At_UN_And_Foreign_Criticism/1871935.html http://www.rferl.org/content/Afghanistan_Hits_Back_At_UN_And_Foreign_Criticism/1871935.html Sat, 07 Nov 2009 12:53:18 +0000 News Iranian police detained more than 100 people for "disturbing public order" during a rally this week to mark the anniversary of the seizure of the U.S. Embassy, the official IRNA news agency has reported. http://www.rferl.org/content/Iran_Says_Over_100_People_Detained_At_AntiUS_Rally/1871905.html http://www.rferl.org/content/Iran_Says_Over_100_People_Detained_At_AntiUS_Rally/1871905.html Sat, 07 Nov 2009 12:15:31 +0000 News Iran has executed four men convicted of smuggling drugs, the semi-official Fars news agency reported. http://www.rferl.org/content/Iran_Executes_Four_Drug_Smugglers/1871877.html http://www.rferl.org/content/Iran_Executes_Four_Drug_Smugglers/1871877.html Sat, 07 Nov 2009 11:53:29 +0000 News A Russian military plane with 11 people on board has crashed in the Pacific Ocean during a training flight, the Defense Ministry said. http://www.rferl.org/content/Russian_Military_Plane_Crashes_In_Pacific_11_Missing/1871874.html http://www.rferl.org/content/Russian_Military_Plane_Crashes_In_Pacific_11_Missing/1871874.html Sat, 07 Nov 2009 11:45:28 +0000 News The 30th anniversary of the takeover of the U.S. embassy in Tehran this week was marked by opposition protests, some of which turned violent. http://www.rferl.org/content/Farda_Karrubi_son_interview_off_mic_press_room/1871560.html http://www.rferl.org/content/Farda_Karrubi_son_interview_off_mic_press_room/1871560.html Fri, 06 Nov 2009 19:25:06 +0000 Off Mic Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko is considering postponing the country's presidential election scheduled for January due to the spread of swine flu in the country. http://www.rferl.org/content/Official_Ukrainian_Election_May_Be_Postponed_Due_To_Swine_Flu/1871510.html http://www.rferl.org/content/Official_Ukrainian_Election_May_Be_Postponed_Due_To_Swine_Flu/1871510.html Fri, 06 Nov 2009 17:41:17 +0000 News In the wake of his reelection, President Hamid Karzai is facing intense international pressure to move decisively against the corruption that affects all aspects of life in Afghanistan. But what is the scale of corruption in the country, how does it systematically undermine efforts to establish stability, and what would it take to stem the growing menace? http://www.rferl.org/content/Afghanistans_Karzai_Faces_Pressure_To_Confront_Corruption_Menace/1871516.html http://www.rferl.org/content/Afghanistans_Karzai_Faces_Pressure_To_Confront_Corruption_Menace/1871516.html Fri, 06 Nov 2009 17:34:13 +0000 Features http://www.rferl.org/content/Afghanistans_Karzai_Faces_Pressure_To_Confront_Corruption_Menace/1871516.html#relatedInfoContainer The U.S. State Department has strongly denied an Azerbaijani media report that alleges Washington threatened to recognize Nagorno-Karabakh as an independent state unless Baku commits to a peaceful resolution of the Armenian-Azerbaijani dispute over that territory, RFE/RL's Armenian Service reports. http://www.rferl.org/content/US_Embassy_Denies_Karabakh_Recognition_Threat_/1871501.html http://www.rferl.org/content/US_Embassy_Denies_Karabakh_Recognition_Threat_/1871501.html Fri, 06 Nov 2009 17:22:33 +0000 From Our Bureaus British Prime Minister Gordon Brown has warned that Britain will not risk more lives in Afghanistan unless the new Afghan government cracks down decisively on corruption. http://www.rferl.org/content/Britains_Brown_Afghan_Government_Must_Deliver/1871479.html http://www.rferl.org/content/Britains_Brown_Afghan_Government_Must_Deliver/1871479.html Fri, 06 Nov 2009 17:03:41 +0000 News Iranian Foreign Minister Manuchehr Mottaki says Iran is preparing to give the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) more details of its response to proposals from the major powers for the supply of nuclear fuel. http://www.rferl.org/content/Iran_To_Give_UN_Watchdog_More_Details_On_Nuclear_Fuel_Plan/1871468.html http://www.rferl.org/content/Iran_To_Give_UN_Watchdog_More_Details_On_Nuclear_Fuel_Plan/1871468.html Fri, 06 Nov 2009 16:55:12 +0000 News The board of directors of U.S. automaker General Motors (GM) has decided not to sell its shares of Opel, putting an end to months of talks that seemed to be leading to the acquisition of Opel by a consortium consisting of Canada's Magna and Russia's Sberbank. http://www.rferl.org/content/Analyst_GM_Scared_Off_By_Partners_In_Proposed_Opel_Deal/1871465.html http://www.rferl.org/content/Analyst_GM_Scared_Off_By_Partners_In_Proposed_Opel_Deal/1871465.html Fri, 06 Nov 2009 16:47:18 +0000 Features http://www.rferl.org/content/Analyst_GM_Scared_Off_By_Partners_In_Proposed_Opel_Deal/1871465.html#relatedInfoContainer Belarusian authorities have refused to issue a visa to the director of the Warsaw-based Belsat television company that broadcasts to Belarus, RFE/RL's Belarus Service reports. http://www.rferl.org/content/Polish_TV_Company_Director_Refused_Belarusian_Visa/1871462.html http://www.rferl.org/content/Polish_TV_Company_Director_Refused_Belarusian_Visa/1871462.html Fri, 06 Nov 2009 16:41:42 +0000 From Our Bureaus Members of the Green movement opposed to Iranian President Mahmud Ahmadinejad voiced a clear demand to U.S. President Barack Obama this week. http://www.rferl.org/content/What_Does_Irans_Green_Movement_Want_From_Obama_/1871445.html http://www.rferl.org/content/What_Does_Irans_Green_Movement_Want_From_Obama_/1871445.html Fri, 06 Nov 2009 16:35:14 +0000 Features http://www.rferl.org/content/What_Does_Irans_Green_Movement_Want_From_Obama_/1871445.html#relatedInfoContainer No stickies allowed! Iraqi authorities "ban" adhesive campaign advertising in Iraq The independent electoral commission in Iraq has issued a directive banning any posters, candidate portraits, or electioneering materials with adhesive backing that can be plastered on walls and blast barriers -- a tactic that has been commonplace in previous election campaigns in Iraq. Hamdiya al Husseini, a chief electoral officer, recalled that Iraq’s cities, towns and even outlying ... http://www.rferl.org/content/off_mic_heard_on_iraqi_airwaves_11_6/1871363.html http://www.rferl.org/content/off_mic_heard_on_iraqi_airwaves_11_6/1871363.html Fri, 06 Nov 2009 15:37:09 +0000 Off Mic http://www.rferl.org/content/off_mic_heard_on_iraqi_airwaves_11_6/1871363.html#relatedInfoContainer Ukraine has paid Russia for October gas supplies on time, despite European Union fears that bills would not be settled but the process had proved "extremely difficult," Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko has said. http://www.rferl.org/content/Ukraine_PM_Says_Difficult_Russian_Bill_Settled/1871361.html http://www.rferl.org/content/Ukraine_PM_Says_Difficult_Russian_Bill_Settled/1871361.html Fri, 06 Nov 2009 15:31:32 +0000 News Uzbekistan says it has signed an agreement to export up to 10 billion cubic meters of natural gas to China, RFE/RL's Uzbek Service reports. http://www.rferl.org/content/Uzbekistan_To_Deliver_Natural_Gas_To_China_/1871364.html http://www.rferl.org/content/Uzbekistan_To_Deliver_Natural_Gas_To_China_/1871364.html Fri, 06 Nov 2009 15:30:54 +0000 News The Uzbek government adopted a law on November 1 that bans the sale of alcoholic beverages near all educational and religious buildings in the country, RFE/RL's Uzbek Service reports. http://www.rferl.org/content/Alcohol_Sales_Banned_Near_Uzbek_Schools_Mosques_/1871334.html http://www.rferl.org/content/Alcohol_Sales_Banned_Near_Uzbek_Schools_Mosques_/1871334.html Fri, 06 Nov 2009 15:16:55 +0000 From Our Bureaus Two members of the NATO-led force in Afghanistan were reported missing and the Taliban said they were holding the bodies of two drowned foreign soldiers. http://www.rferl.org/content/Taliban_Says_It_Has_Bodies_Of_Two_Foreign_Troops/1871338.html http://www.rferl.org/content/Taliban_Says_It_Has_Bodies_Of_Two_Foreign_Troops/1871338.html Fri, 06 Nov 2009 15:11:35 +0000 News A court in Turkmenistan has overturned a five-year jail sentence handed down last week to a biologist whose environmental organization was shut down by the state in 2003. The case marks the second time in three years that Andrei Zatoka has been sentenced and detained before being released, and highlights the difficulties activists commonly encounter in Central Asia. http://www.rferl.org/content/Turkmen_Case_Highlights_Plight_Of_Activists_In_Central_Asia/1871275.html http://www.rferl.org/content/Turkmen_Case_Highlights_Plight_Of_Activists_In_Central_Asia/1871275.html Fri, 06 Nov 2009 14:13:52 +0000 Features http://www.rferl.org/content/Turkmen_Case_Highlights_Plight_Of_Activists_In_Central_Asia/1871275.html#relatedInfoContainer The first swine flu case has been officially confirmed in Azerbaijan, RFE/RL's Azerbaijani Service reports. http://www.rferl.org/content/First_Swine_Flu_Case_Reported_In_Azerbaijan/1871225.html http://www.rferl.org/content/First_Swine_Flu_Case_Reported_In_Azerbaijan/1871225.html Fri, 06 Nov 2009 13:42:44 +0000 From Our Bureaus A senior International Monetary Fund official says the IMF agrees with the World Bank that the Armenian economy is dominated by monopolies and other "oligopolistic" structures that hamper the country's development, RFE/RL's Armenian Service reports. http://www.rferl.org/content/IMF_Shares_World_Bank_Concern_About_Monopolies_In_Armenia/1871216.html http://www.rferl.org/content/IMF_Shares_World_Bank_Concern_About_Monopolies_In_Armenia/1871216.html Fri, 06 Nov 2009 13:36:42 +0000 From Our Bureaus A Russian Investigative Committee has charged two suspects in the January murders of a human rights lawyer and a journalist, RFE/RL's Russian Service reports. http://www.rferl.org/content/Two_Arrests_Made_In_Moscow_For_Markelov_Baburova_Murders/1871203.html http://www.rferl.org/content/Two_Arrests_Made_In_Moscow_For_Markelov_Baburova_Murders/1871203.html Fri, 06 Nov 2009 13:13:48 +0000 From Our Bureaus http://www.rferl.org/content/Two_Arrests_Made_In_Moscow_For_Markelov_Baburova_Murders/1871203.html#relatedInfoContainer The chairman of the Grozny-based human rights organization Pravo (Right), Arbi Khachukaev, has been detained by Moscow police, RFE/RL's Russian Service reports. http://www.rferl.org/content/Chechen_Rights_Activist_Detained_In_Moscow/1871189.html http://www.rferl.org/content/Chechen_Rights_Activist_Detained_In_Moscow/1871189.html Fri, 06 Nov 2009 13:10:32 +0000 From Our Bureaus The troubled Israeli-Palestinian peace process has been dealt a new blow by Palestinian Authority President Mahmud Abbas saying he will not run in an election he has called for January. The announcement, just days after U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton visited the region, comes as Abbas has increasingly expressed frustration over the lack of progress in negotiations with Israel. http://www.rferl.org/content/Palestinian_President_Says_He_Wont_Run_In_January_Election/1871146.html http://www.rferl.org/content/Palestinian_President_Says_He_Wont_Run_In_January_Election/1871146.html Fri, 06 Nov 2009 12:29:53 +0000 News http://www.rferl.org/content/Palestinian_President_Says_He_Wont_Run_In_January_Election/1871146.html#relatedInfoContainer November 6 is the second anniversary of a brutal police crackdown in Tbilisi on demonstrators who had for days picketed the parliament building to demand early parliamentary elections and the release of persons they considered political prisoners. Georgian media have recently been discussing the possibility that the opposition will launch a new wave of protests on November 7 to demand President Mikheil Saakashvili's resignation. But with the opposition divided over tactics and strategy, the ... http://www.rferl.org/content/Georgian_Opposition_Gears_Up_For_New_Protests/1871141.html http://www.rferl.org/content/Georgian_Opposition_Gears_Up_For_New_Protests/1871141.html Fri, 06 Nov 2009 12:27:23 +0000 Caucasus Report http://www.rferl.org/content/Georgian_Opposition_Gears_Up_For_New_Protests/1871141.html#relatedInfoContainer Iraq's electoral authorities have called for polls due next January to be delayed after parliament failed once more to agree on how to hold the vote. http://www.rferl.org/content/Iraq_Election_Body_Seeks_Vote_Delay_Due_To_Law_Row_/1871105.html http://www.rferl.org/content/Iraq_Election_Body_Seeks_Vote_Delay_Due_To_Law_Row_/1871105.html Fri, 06 Nov 2009 12:03:32 +0000 News The UN nuclear watchdog is legally obliged to provide Iran with nuclear fuel for its research reactor without setting any conditions, a hard-line Iranian cleric has told worshippers. http://www.rferl.org/content/Iran_Cleric_Says_Conditions_Unacceptable_On_Nuclear_Fuel/1871091.html http://www.rferl.org/content/Iran_Cleric_Says_Conditions_Unacceptable_On_Nuclear_Fuel/1871091.html Fri, 06 Nov 2009 11:54:47 +0000 News Ukraine has told the European Commission that it has 25 billion cubic meters of gas in storage, which should be enough to prevent disruptions to flows to Europe this winter, a spokesman has said. http://www.rferl.org/content/Ukraine_Says_Has_Enough_Gas_For_Winter_Flows/1871083.html http://www.rferl.org/content/Ukraine_Says_Has_Enough_Gas_For_Winter_Flows/1871083.html Fri, 06 Nov 2009 11:49:37 +0000 News In November 1989, we were given a chance, and we are doing relatively well. We are part of the broader world. Our children are growing up in a sort of democracy. They can travel and study abroad. They speak many languages and so hold the keys to open other worlds. Nonetheless, all is not right. http://www.rferl.org/content/Twenty_Years_Later_And_The_Communists_Are_Still_With_Us/1871049.html http://www.rferl.org/content/Twenty_Years_Later_And_The_Communists_Are_Still_With_Us/1871049.html Fri, 06 Nov 2009 11:18:27 +0000 Commentary http://www.rferl.org/content/Twenty_Years_Later_And_The_Communists_Are_Still_With_Us/1871049.html#relatedInfoContainer Physically, little today is left of the Berlin Wall, the potent symbol of Germany's Cold War division. But the psychological barrier between East and West -- the "Wall in the head" -- still runs deep two decades after the Wall's destruction. http://www.rferl.org/content/In_OnceDivided_City_East_Berliners_Still_See_Us_And_Them_/1870974.html http://www.rferl.org/content/In_OnceDivided_City_East_Berliners_Still_See_Us_And_Them_/1870974.html Fri, 06 Nov 2009 10:14:15 +0000 Features http://www.rferl.org/content/In_OnceDivided_City_East_Berliners_Still_See_Us_And_Them_/1870974.html#relatedInfoContainer In the face of ongoing pressure and harassment from authorities, RFE/RL's Azerbaijani Service has won an AIB Award for its coverage of Azerbaijan's controversial March referendum. http://www.rferl.org/content/rferl_press_release_Azerbaijan_AIB_award/1870952.html http://www.rferl.org/content/rferl_press_release_Azerbaijan_AIB_award/1870952.html Fri, 06 Nov 2009 09:44:48 +0000 Press Releases Ultranationalist and antifascist protesters have clashed in St. Petersburg, RFE/RL's Russian Service reports. http://www.rferl.org/content/Nationalists_Antifascists_Clash_In_St_Petersburg/1870939.html http://www.rferl.org/content/Nationalists_Antifascists_Clash_In_St_Petersburg/1870939.html Fri, 06 Nov 2009 09:42:34 +0000 From Our Bureaus Georgian Foreign Minister Grigol Vashadze has renounced his Russian citizenship, RFE/RL's Russian and Georgian services reports. http://www.rferl.org/content/Georgian_Foreign_Minister_Renounces_Russian_Citizenship/1870936.html http://www.rferl.org/content/Georgian_Foreign_Minister_Renounces_Russian_Citizenship/1870936.html Fri, 06 Nov 2009 09:39:13 +0000 From Our Bureaus A Russian Duma deputy says that comments by Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski claiming that Russia is threatening Polish security could harm relations the two countries. http://www.rferl.org/content/Russian_Deputy_Says_Polish_Comments_Could_Hurt_Relations/1870933.html http://www.rferl.org/content/Russian_Deputy_Says_Polish_Comments_Could_Hurt_Relations/1870933.html Fri, 06 Nov 2009 09:36:49 +0000 From Our Bureaus The Armenian Revolutionary Federation (Dashnaktsutyun) is supporting calls to prosecute anyone in Nagorno-Karabakh who publicly advocates the return of Azerbaijani territories that are now controlled by Karabakh Armenians, RFE/RL's Armenian Service reports. http://www.rferl.org/content/Armenian_Party_Seeks_To_Criminalize_Talk_Of_Karabakh_Concessions_/1870903.html http://www.rferl.org/content/Armenian_Party_Seeks_To_Criminalize_Talk_Of_Karabakh_Concessions_/1870903.html Fri, 06 Nov 2009 09:08:43 +0000 From Our Bureaus Two women in Tajikistan's northern Sughd Province have been detained for alleged membership in the banned Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan (IMU), RFE/RL's Tajik Service reports. http://www.rferl.org/content/Tajikistan_Detains_Women_For_Alleged_IMU_Membership/1870897.html http://www.rferl.org/content/Tajikistan_Detains_Women_For_Alleged_IMU_Membership/1870897.html Fri, 06 Nov 2009 09:06:19 +0000 From Our Bureaus Pakistani soldiers have entered an important militant bastion in South Waziristan, security officials said, as gunmen wounded an army brigadier and his driver in a drive-by shooting in the capital. http://www.rferl.org/content/Pakistani_Forces_Enter_Major_Taliban_Base/1870896.html http://www.rferl.org/content/Pakistani_Forces_Enter_Major_Taliban_Base/1870896.html Fri, 06 Nov 2009 09:03:40 +0000 News The UN nuclear watchdog has asked Iran to explain evidence suggesting the Islamic republic's scientists have experimented with an advanced nuclear warhead design, "The Guardian" reported in its November 6 edition. http://www.rferl.org/content/Report_Iran_Tested_Advanced_Nuclear_Warhead/1870863.html http://www.rferl.org/content/Report_Iran_Tested_Advanced_Nuclear_Warhead/1870863.html Fri, 06 Nov 2009 08:20:53 +0000 News A first look at the news on RFE/RL's broadcast region RFE/RL in the Media # Nazenin Ansari & Jonathan Paris discuss Iran and Radio Farda # Democracy Digest reprints Jeff Gedmin's Berlin Wall oped On the RFE/RL Website # The 20th anniversary of the fall of the Wall # Islamic leaders make headway on climate change Int'l Press Review Iran # Abbas Milani on the Green Movement # TIME on the media wars in Iran # Hossein Askari thinks Iran is at the ... http://www.rferl.org/content/rferl_off_mic_rundown_press_review/1870812.html http://www.rferl.org/content/rferl_off_mic_rundown_press_review/1870812.html Fri, 06 Nov 2009 06:55:34 +0000 The Rundown Thirteen people were killed and 28 wounded -- many of them U.S. military personnel -- when a U.S. army psychiatrist apparently went on a shooting rampage at a U.S. Army base in Texas. http://www.rferl.org/content/article/1870688.html http://www.rferl.org/content/article/1870688.html Thu, 05 Nov 2009 23:25:00 +0000 News http://www.rferl.org/content/article/1870688.html#relatedInfoContainer A shooting at a U.S. Army base in the western state of Texas has left at least seven people killed and 20 were wounded in the attack. http://www.rferl.org/content/Mass_Deadly_Shooting_At_US_Military_Base_/1870668.html http://www.rferl.org/content/Mass_Deadly_Shooting_At_US_Military_Base_/1870668.html Thu, 05 Nov 2009 22:23:18 +0000 News The government of Bosnia's Serb entity, Republika Srpska, is stepping up efforts to gain greater autonomy and bringing an end to the international community's supervision of Bosnia's daily affairs. Representatives from the Republika Srpska government are in Washington this week to lobby members of the U.S. Congress to abandon attempts to strengthen Bosnia's central institutions through constitutional reforms. And back in Bosnia, Republika Srpska today received strong backing from a powerful ... http://www.rferl.org/content/article/1870687.html http://www.rferl.org/content/article/1870687.html Thu, 05 Nov 2009 22:01:51 +0000 News http://www.rferl.org/content/article/1870687.html#relatedInfoContainer