RFE/RL in the Media

# In Boston Globe Martha Bayles and Jeffrey Gedmin call on CIA to ban covert funding of journalists and mention RFE/RL’s CIA beginnings 

# Daily Mail uses RFE/RL’s Under the Black flag blog in report on IS propaganda

# Washington Times cites RFE/RL’s Caucasus Report on insurgent commanders in Russia pledging allegiance to IS

# Alan Hell’s Washington Post letter to the editor cites dangers faced by RFE/RL and VOA journalists

 

Russia

# Russian footballer shot and killed in North Caucasus 

# U.S. and Russia on verge of returning to era of nuclear rivalry

# “Five Ways Russia Can Regroup” – Nikolai Gosdev, National Interest

# Bershidsky: Putin’s Russia on verge of outright dictatorship

 

Ukraine

# New York Times goes behind the scenes for Yanukovych’s last hours in power and how he lost it

# “Batman” killed

# Did Russia send new military vehicles to Ukraine?

# “The Next Battle for Ukraine” – Sabrina Tavernise, New York Times

 

Iraq/Syria/Turkey

# Erdogan sees new threat — in political cartoons

# IS releases new, well-produced Cantlie video

# IS power appears to ebb

 

Iran

# Rohani proposes direct referendum, possibly to bypass hardliners on nuclear deal; says Iran must end isolation

# Rohani’s “most interesting speech to date” 

# Sides moving closer on nuclear deal

 

Afghanistan/Pakistan

# Support for Afghanistan troops rises as combat mission ends

# Unruly factions hurt Taliban bid to capture territory

# To fight Taliban, “Pakistan needs curriculum reform”

 

Central Asia

# Uzbek translation of Koran launched in Afghanistan
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