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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UN crime watchdog helps Iran set up unit to combat money-laundering from drugs trade
Iran has teamed with the United Nations anti-crime agency to set up a financial intelligence unit tasked with tackling the spread of money-laundering in the country, the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) announced today.
Joint UN-African Union envoy to Darfur talks peace with armed rebel movements
The newly appointed head of the joint African Union-United Nations peacekeeping mission in Darfur, known as UNAMID, today met with members from key rebel militia as part of a series of talks on the prospects for a durable peace in the war-scarred region in western Sudan.
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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