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July 14, 2010
U.S. Push To Blacklist Taliban Networks Could Reap Little Reward

Senior U.S. civilian and military leaders are pushing for Washington to designate major Taliban networks as terrorists. But the move could adversely affect Afghan President Hamid Karzai administration's efforts to negotiate with certain Taliban networks based in Pakistan.

July 14, 2010
'Kidnapped' Iranian Scientist Flies Home, With Many Questions Unanswered

Iranian nuclear scientist Shahram Amiri arrives back in Iran having "escaped" his supposed U.S. captors. But was Amiri a kidnap victim, as he has claimed, or a defector who simply changed his mind? And has any U.S. embarrassment over the affair been offset by the acquisition of valuable intelligence?
July 14, 2010
A Year Later, Still No Closure In Chechnya Estemirova Killing

One year has passed since rights campaigner Natalya Estemirova was killed, and friends and colleagues say they're losing hope of seeing justice done.
July 13, 2010
Iranian Women's Rights Activist Recounts Decision To Cast Off Hijab

When Fariba Davoodi Mohajer, a well-known Iranian journalist and women's rights activist, removed her hijab for the world to see, the act came under immediate attack by the Iranian regime, which accused her of immorality and depravity.
July 13, 2010
Possible New Lease On Life For EU Reps To Caucasus, Moldova

A broad consensus is emerging in the European Union to extend the mandates of the bloc's special envoys to various global trouble spots.
July 13, 2010
Wiesel 'Pleads' With Russian Government For Khodorkovsky's Freedom

Nobel Peace laureate Elie Wiesel has launched a global campaign to free imprisoned Russian oil magnate Mikhail Khodorkovsky, whom he calls a "political prisoner." RFE/RL Russian Service correspondent Elena Vlasenko spoke to Wiesel about the case and the state of human rights in Russia.
July 12, 2010
A Game No More In Pakistani Pashtun Village

After a suicide bombing at the start of the year killed more than 100 people playing and watching a volleyball game in Shah Hassan Khel, a tiny village in northwestern Pakistan, residents appear more emboldened than ever to resist the Taliban.
July 12, 2010
Conservationists Wage A Different Fight In Iraq, Afghanistan

As instability and conflict continue to plague Iraq and Afghanistan, a small and often forgotten contingent of conservationists continues their work on the ground. Their goal is to safeguard threatened natural resources, and to broaden people's associations in the process.
July 11, 2010
A Tajik Peace Recipe For Kyrgyzstan?

If the Kyrgyz interim government is looking for an immediate example of how to get the mending process going, it need not look any farther than its southern neighbor, Tajikistan. In 1997, following the end of a five-year civil war, Tajikistan faced a similar test.
July 10, 2010
Top U.S. Human Rights Diplomat: 'Democracy Takes Time'

Following Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's trip last week to Eastern Europe and the South Caucasus, RFE/RL’s Washington correspondent Heather Maher asked Michael Posner, the top U.S. diplomat for human rights and democracy, for an assessment of what Clinton accomplished and of the rights situation throughout the region as a whole.
July 10, 2010
Serbs Honor Srebrenica Victims With Shoe Memorial

July 11 is the 15th anniversary of the Srebrenica massacre, when Bosnian Serb paramilitaries executed more than 8,000 Muslim men and boys toward the end of the war in Bosnia-Herzegovina. In an effort at reconciliation in Belgrade, some Serbian activists are preparing their own special memorial to the victims.
July 09, 2010
Tehran Bazaar Dispute May Herald New Regime Crackdown

Tehran's sprawling Grand Bazaar, a giant trading market and long a bastion of traditional conservatism, has erupted into open discontent against President Mahmud Ahmadinejad's government. Wary of the bazaar's symbolic importance, the government has backed down -- for now.

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Wednesday 14 July 2010

U.S. Push To Blacklist Taliban Networks Could Reap Little Reward

'Kidnapped' Iranian Scientist Flies Home, With Many Questions Unanswered

A Year Later, Still No Closure In Chechnya Estemirova Killing

Iranian Women's Rights Activist Recounts Decision To Cast Off Hijab

Possible New Lease On Life For EU Reps To Caucasus, Moldova

Wiesel 'Pleads' With Russian Government For Khodorkovsky's Freedom

A Game No More In Pakistani Pashtun Village

Conservationists Wage A Different Fight In Iraq, Afghanistan

A Tajik Peace Recipe For Kyrgyzstan?

Top U.S. Human Rights Diplomat: 'Democracy Takes Time'

Serbs Honor Srebrenica Victims With Shoe Memorial

Tehran Bazaar Dispute May Herald New Regime Crackdown

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