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The Rundown - October 12


A first look at the news on RFE/RL's broadcast region

RFE/RL in the Media
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Chris Walker discusses "Undermining Authoritarians"
# Russia Today reports on RFE/RL's new broadcast
# RNW on money for the BBG to combat censorship

On the RFE/RL Website
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An interview with Anders Fogh Rasmussen
# The "management" of the Moscow elections

Int'l Press Review

Sunday Morning Talk Shows
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This Week has a roundtable on Afghanistan
# The analysis of David Brooks & Ruth Marcus
# Face the Nation discusses the Afghan war
# Meet the Press has Lindsey Graham and Carl Levin
# Fareed Zakaria has the Pakistani's US Ambassador
# Fox News Sunday takes on Afghanistan

Afghanistan
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Kai Eide speaks about the UN mission in Afghanistan
# Fareed Zakaria on security in Afghanistan
# Andrew Bacevich calls Afghanistan a "proxy war"
# Bruce Reidel on the perils of indecision
# Greg Jaffe doesn't think we need another Petraeus
# Lewis Sorley on the real lessons from Vietnam
# Zahir Tanin on why the west should stay

Russia
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Russia and the U.S. are cooperating on Turkey and Armenia
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Medvedev hopes Obama's Nobel Prize will improve relations

Politics/Foreign Policy
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Joe Biden as the White House dissenter-in-chief
# Javier Solana on the EU's decade of foreign policy
# Fred Hiatt on Obama's not meeting with the Dalai Lama
# The fallout from the Pakistani aid bill continues
# Al Kamen's "In the Loop"
# "Embassy Row" - the Washington Times
# The latest appointments from Laura Rozen
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