RFE/RL in the Media

# Jeffrey Gedmin relates a “broken window” approach to foreign policy with Aliyev’s crackdown on RFE/RL staff in Azerbaijan (Washington Post)

# Independent cites RFE/RL Iraqi Service and Under the Black Flag blog for interview with man once imprisoned with James Foley

# Buzzfeed writes about the RFE/RL and VOA Current Time project

 

Russia

# “Inside Obama’s Secret Outreach to Russia” – Josh Rogin, Bloomberg

# Russia’s protest movement is in shambles

# Russia’s Eurasian Union “already looks like a disaster” 

# EU’s foreign policy chief seeks “debate” with Russia on role in Europe

# Why you shouldn’t get tagged on social media in Russia

 

 

Ukraine

# On waiting for your Ukrainian hostage husband to be freed 

# Ukraine says separatists keeping up attacks

# “A Ukraine-Russia Peace Deal: Crimea Must Have a Cost” – Mark Galeotti

# “Ukraine’s Facebook Warriors” – David Patrikarakos, New York Times

 

Iran

# “50 Shades of Iran: The Mullahs’ Kinky Fantasies about Sex in the West” – Shima Sharabi, Daily Beast

# Iran, Iraq agree To military pact to combat Islamic State militants

# “Enabling Iran’s Nukes” – Omri Ceren, Commentary

# Rubio says new Iran sanctions are coming

 

Iraq/Syria

# The Iraq war’s new heroes

# New Zealand IS militant accidentally broadcasts location via Twitter

# Visual: How the air campaign against IS grew

# Iraqi media says IS militants have contracted Ebola

 

Afghanistan/Pakistan

# What was achieved and what lies ahead in Afghanistan

# Fears of IS in Afghanistan grow

# “The Dangerous Drug-Funded Secret War Between Iran and Pakistan” – Umar Farooq, Daily Beast

 

Central Asia

# U.S. sends five Guantanamo prisoners to Kazakhstan for resettlement

 

Caucasus

# Armenia officially joins Eurasian Economic Union

# Long read: “A Family Survives the Armenian Genocide and Its Long Aftermath” – Raffi Khatchadourian, New Yorker

 

Of Interest

# The Jay Wilds interviews
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