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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Secretary-General mourns death of former Nepalese prime minister
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today paid tribute to Nepal's former prime minister and head of the Nepali Congress party Girija Prasad Koirala, calling his death a “huge loss” both for the country and for its peace process, which ended a decade-long civil war.
No room for racism at this year's soccer World Cup, UN chief says
Marking the 50th anniversary of the massacre of protesters taking a peaceful stand against apartheid in South Africa, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said today that there is “no room for racist and xenophobic acts” at this summer's soccer World Cup in the country, the first time the ...
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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