RFE/RL in the Media
# THE WSJ cites RFE/RL's Hamid Karzai interview
# Spencer Ackerman cites the Karzai interview as well
# Eurasianet on international broadcasting in Azerbaijan
# Press TV on US broadcasting to Iran
On the RFE/RL Website
# An interview with Hamid Karzai
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Sri Lanka: From December "total freedom of movement" for the Tamil in refugee camps
Colombo promises that the resettlement of refugees will be completed by the end of January. As of today at least 160 thousand people still live in camps.
China: Explosion in coal mine: 31 killed and 78 trapped underground
The origin of the blast gas leak. It is yet another incident recorded in a mine. As a rough estimate, in 2009 at least 3 thousand people have died in accidents incidents in various mines due to landslides, floods and explosions.
Int'l Press Review
Sunday Morning Talk Shows
# The analysis of Shields & Brooks
# Meet the Press discusses Afghanistan
# Valerie Jarrett on This Week
Afghanistan/Pakistan
# Abdullah Abdullah pulls out of the Afghan election
# Hillary Clinton discusses Pakistan on the Newshour
Russia
# Richard Lourie on press freedom in Russia
# The Times (UK) doesn't see Russia as a partner
# Anna Nemtsova thinks there is still a war in the Caucasus
# Yuri Fedotov thinks the U.K & Russia can get along
# Russia will put 4000 more troops in the N. Caucasus
Iran
# Jackson Diehl on Iran's opposition
U.S. Politics/Foreign Policy
# Les Gelb on Obama's foreign policy
# Al Kamen's "In the Loop"
The Fall of the Wall
# Josef Joffe was there at the rise and at the fall
# Gerard DeGroot on the culture of Eastern Europe
# Mary Sarotte on why the Wall fell
# Janet Daley says we haven't learned from the end of communism
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