RFE/RL in the media
# Toronto Star quotes Rob Coalson's piece about Ukraine oligarchs
Russia
# Putin says Western spy agencies plotting for 2018 election
# Russian army TV channel invites Jeremy Clarkson to present motoring show
# "The Central Banker Who Saved the Russian Economy From the Abyss" - Evgenia Pismennaya and Ilya Arkhipov, Bloomberg
# "The Ukraine Invasion Has Slipped Beyond Putin’s Control" - John Lough, Newsweek
Ukraine
# West holds off on Ukraine aid pledges, seeking reforms
# Wizzair Ukraine to close
# Journalists rate Ukraine's best friends in Brussels
# Volunteer battalions "not undermining the state -- they're saving it"
# "Help Ukraine to Arm Itself" - Leonid Bershidsky, Bloomberg
Middle East
# Some Shi'ite militias boycotting Tikrit fighting because of U.S. bombing
# Egypt says it may send troops to Yemen fight; Iran condemns intervention
# Al-Qaeda may be main beneficiary of power vacuum in Yemen
# U.S. drops gory propaganda leaflets over Syria
Iran
# US considers allowing Iran to still run centrifuges at fortified site
# Rohani writes to Obama and speaks to Cameroon as deal deadline approaches
# "To Stop Iran’s Bomb, Bomb Iran" - John Bolton, New York Times
# "Sunni vs Shia: From Myth to Self-Fulfilling Prophecy" - Khaled Diab, Haaretz
Afghanistan/Pakistan
# Soldier indicted for producing child porn in Afghanistan
# "What's the Afghanistan Endgame?" - LA Times
# Pakistan considering Saudi request to take part in Yemen operation
# Pakistan's newest "political odd couple"
Central Asia
# Mysterious sleeping ailment continues in Kazakhstan
Of Interest