RFE In The Media
# "The Mysterious Death of Ilyas Kashmiri" - Daud Khattak, "Foreign Policy"
# "Lost in the Levant: Lebanon Reappraised" - James Kirchick, "World Affairs Journal"
# "Ars technica" reports on RFE's balloon campaigns during the Cold War
International Press Review
Pakistan
# Over 100 Taliban fighters stormed an Army checkpoint in Waziristan
# "Foreign Policy" interviews Ehsan ul-Haq
# "A Reality Check Amid the Terror and Chaos" - Pervez Musharraf, "CNN"
# Nawaz Sharif set a June 30 deadline for a commission on the Abbottabad raid
Afghanistan
# Confirmation hearings were held for U.S. Ambassador Ryan Crocker
Iran
# Iran says it will increase enrichment of Uranium
# "Why to Accept Iran’s Talks Offer" - Zachary Keck, "The Diplomat"
Russia
# "Giving Away The Farm" - James Woolsey & Rebecca Heinrichs, "Foreign Policy"
# "Hope for Khodorkovsky, and for Russia?" - Amy Knight, "NY Review of Books"
# Russia has declared a "total war on drugs"
# A new ATM machine includes a lie detector
Of Interest
# Reports say Georgia will lift its conditions for Russia's inclusion in the WTO
# Ukraine may go to the IMF to help pay for gas imports
# The Smurfs lived in a totalitarian utopia
Middle East
# Is Amina Arraf a real person?
# "A Post-American Day Dawns in the Mideast" - Ray Takeyh, "International Herald Tribune"
U.S. Politics/Foreign Policy
# "Is This the Start of Cyberwarfare?" - Sharon Weinberger, "Nature"
# The "PBS Newshour" interviews Senators Chambliss and Menendez
# "The Mysterious Death of Ilyas Kashmiri" - Daud Khattak, "Foreign Policy"
# "Lost in the Levant: Lebanon Reappraised" - James Kirchick, "World Affairs Journal"
# "Ars technica" reports on RFE's balloon campaigns during the Cold War
International Press Review
Pakistan
# Over 100 Taliban fighters stormed an Army checkpoint in Waziristan
# "Foreign Policy" interviews Ehsan ul-Haq
# "A Reality Check Amid the Terror and Chaos" - Pervez Musharraf, "CNN"
# Nawaz Sharif set a June 30 deadline for a commission on the Abbottabad raid
Afghanistan
# Confirmation hearings were held for U.S. Ambassador Ryan Crocker
Iran
# Iran says it will increase enrichment of Uranium
# "Why to Accept Iran’s Talks Offer" - Zachary Keck, "The Diplomat"
Russia
# "Giving Away The Farm" - James Woolsey & Rebecca Heinrichs, "Foreign Policy"
# "Hope for Khodorkovsky, and for Russia?" - Amy Knight, "NY Review of Books"
# Russia has declared a "total war on drugs"
# A new ATM machine includes a lie detector
Of Interest
# Reports say Georgia will lift its conditions for Russia's inclusion in the WTO
# Ukraine may go to the IMF to help pay for gas imports
# The Smurfs lived in a totalitarian utopia
Middle East
# Is Amina Arraf a real person?
# "A Post-American Day Dawns in the Mideast" - Ray Takeyh, "International Herald Tribune"
U.S. Politics/Foreign Policy
# "Is This the Start of Cyberwarfare?" - Sharon Weinberger, "Nature"
# The "PBS Newshour" interviews Senators Chambliss and Menendez