RFE/RL in the Media

# CPJ cites RFE/RL Azerbaijani Service on another journalist arrest

 

 

Russia

# Czech intelligence accuses its politicians of being soft on Russia

# “Putin’s Moscow is Anxious, Gilded and Hollow” – Lucian Kim Reuters

# Beware the share button in Russia

# FIFA places Crimea on map of Russia

# “Time” exclusive: Putin’s Secret Agents

 

Ukraine

# Ukraine and Russia reach gas agreement

# Some 64 supporters of “dictator laws” return to parliament; and Moscow not happy with negative disposition toward them

# “After Ukraine Vote, a New Test: Burying a Legacy of Dysfunctional Politics” – David Herszenhorn, “New York Times” 

# “Eastern Ukraine’s Fake State is About to Elect a Fake Prime Minister” – Lily Hyde, Foreign Policy

 

Iraq/Syria/Turkey

# Is the U.S-Turkey alliance crumbling?

# IS destroys important 11th century shrine

# Survivors describe massacre of 600 prisoners in Mosul

 

Iran

# “The Revolution is Over” – “Economist” 

# Does Israeli Iran policy threaten the “special relationship” with the U.S.?

# The recent uptick in hostility towards women in Iran could be directed at Rohani

 

Afghanistan/Pakistan

# Afghanistan “going off the rails” as U.S. withdraws

# Pakistan province rewrites text books to satisfy Islamic conservatives

# “Behind India’s Pakistan Quandary” – Sharat Sabharwal, The Hindu

 

Caucasus

# Exotic zoos — the new status symbol for Armenia’s elite

 

Central Asia

# Turkmenistan reportedly suffering gas shortages

 

Of Interest

# A defense of the singular “they”
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