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
Related Articles The United Nations food agency distributed some 37,000 metric tons of food to more than 2.7 million people in conflict-affected areas of Pakistan this month, including 1.6 million people who were displaced at the height of the crisis in 2009 and who have now returned to their original homes. The efforts of Central African nations to consolidate peace and further development are being thwarted by weapons trafficking, top United Nations officials warned today, calling on Member States to do all they can to eradicate this scourge.
Iran
# Abbas Milani on the Green Movement # TIME on the media wars in Iran # Hossein Askari thinks Iran is at the tipping point # A profile of an Iranian journalist arrested in Iftar # The Washington Post ed board on Iran's stalling
Afghanistan/Pakistan
# Ellen Goodman on Afghan women and the burqa # Nader Mousavizadeh says Afghanistan is at civil war # Elise Jordan on Obama's false assumptions in Afghanistan # Andrew Exum compiles Afghan strategies
1989
# The Berlin Walls of today # Roderic Braithwaite on the role of Mikhail Gorbachev # Josef Joffe on German reunification # A photo essay of 1989
U.S. Politics/Foreign Policy
# Al Kamen's " In the Loop" # " Embassy Row" - the Washington Times # FP interviews the UN's John Holmes
Global 
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The United Nations food agency distributed some 37,000 metric tons of food to more than 2.7 million people in conflict-affected areas of Pakistan this month, including 1.6 million people who were displaced at the height of the crisis in 2009 and who have now returned to their original homes. more
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The efforts of Central African nations to consolidate peace and further development are being thwarted by weapons trafficking, top United Nations officials warned today, calling on Member States to do all they can to eradicate this scourge. more
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The diplomatic Quartet promoting Middle East peace - comprising the United Nations, European Union, United States and Russia - today called on the Israeli and Palestinian sides to resume negotiations as soon as possible with the aim of reaching a settlement within two years. more
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Russia has seen a growing wave of public protests in recent months. Now the country will witness a series of coordinated nationwide rallies in an estimated 50 cities. Most of the protests are meant to draw attention to poor economic conditions and rampant corruption. more
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Ukraine's First Deputy Prime Minister Andrey Klyuyev said today his country wants a joint Russian-EU consortium to be created to help upgrade and modernize Ukraine's natural-gas pipeline network. more
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Some religious leaders in Afghanistan and Tajikistan have said that Norouz celebrations should be banned as an "un-Islamic tradition." more
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A new Inspector General report says RFE/RL's move to its new Prague headquarters was "exceptionally smooth, efficient and cost effective." more
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Iranians traditionally remember their dead on the last Thursday of the Iranian year. On March 18, the last Thursday of the current year, the families of those killed in the postelection crackdown went to Tehran's Behesht Zahra cemetery to remember their loved ones. more
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