RFE/RL in the Media
# Daily Beast cites RFE/RL's Uzbek Service on Gulnara Karimova
# Golnaz Esfandiari was trending on Twitter in Washington, DC
Middle East
# Law regulates protests in Egypt
# Three accidentally shot at Yemen wedding during Gangman style dance
# Syria refugee crisis, "most dire" in a generation
Iran
# U.S. and Iran engaged in secret, high-level talks over the past year
# Deal clinched "amid party at double-booked hotel"
# Twenty questions about Iran's nuclear deal
# Obama has "leeway" despite warnings from Moscow
# "Let's Not Celebrate This Iran Deal…Yet" - Aaron David Miller, Politico
Afghanistan/Pakistan
# Mass anti-drone protests in Islamabad
# Concerns grow over India-Pakistan border violence
# Eleven Pakistani teachers, who were involved in Polio vaccination campaign, kidnapped
# Karzai presses his case to delay deal
Iraq
# FIFA orders Iraq football association to vote in new leadership
Russia
# Greenpeace ship captain speaks; "reevaluates" methods
# Assessing the impact of Master Bank's closure in Russia
# "Will Russia Make Its Own Pivot Toward Asia?" - Fedor Lukyanov, Kommersant
# A Romanov selfie
Eastern Europe
# Tens of thousands of Ukrainians march in largest protest since Orange Revolution
# "Europe Needs to Help Ukraine Escape From Russia" - Viktor Yushchenko, "Financial Times"
# "Washington Post" editorial slams deal
# Fifteen-thousand rally against EU integration in Moldova
Caucasus
# "Che Guevara in the Caucasus" - Max Seddon, Buzzfeed
# Congressmen visit Azerbaijan
Of Interest