A first look at the news on RFE/RL's broadcast region
On the RFE/RL Website
# A imminent ground offensive in Pakistan
# Hillary Clinton is going to Russia
# The week in Facebook
Int'l Press Review
Afghanistan/Pakistan
# The FT profiles Stanley McChrystal
# The Independent on Pakistan's SWAT offensive
# The Newshour on militancy in Pakistan
# Robert Thomson on the U.K.'s Afghan successes
# Pakistan's US Ambassador hasn't been fired...yet
Russia
# Vladimir Ryzhkov on Moscow's dim view of dissidents
# Roman Kupchinsky on Gazprom and the Kremlin in 2003
# A new pipeline is worrying Eastern Europe
U.S. Politics/Foreign Policy
# Peter Beinart on Petraeus as Ike
# Joseph Nye on Obama's nuclear agenda
# Bret Stephens on Obama's Nobel Prize
# Al Kamen's "In the Loop"
# "Embassy Row" - the Washington Times
Of Interest
# Journalists are fleeing Iran as fast as they can get out
# There is slow progress being made in Iraq
# Mary Dejevsky thinks Tony Blair should not be Europe's president
# Jeremy Phillips on the internet as a disrupter of everything
From the Blogs
# Obama's problems with the left on Afghanistan...more from Ackerman
# Hassan Abbas on the Taliban's latest attacks
# Hendrik Hertzberg on Obama's peace prize
On the RFE/RL Website
# A imminent ground offensive in Pakistan
# Hillary Clinton is going to Russia
# The week in Facebook
Int'l Press Review
Afghanistan/Pakistan
# The FT profiles Stanley McChrystal
# The Independent on Pakistan's SWAT offensive
# The Newshour on militancy in Pakistan
# Robert Thomson on the U.K.'s Afghan successes
# Pakistan's US Ambassador hasn't been fired...yet
Russia
# Vladimir Ryzhkov on Moscow's dim view of dissidents
# Roman Kupchinsky on Gazprom and the Kremlin in 2003
# A new pipeline is worrying Eastern Europe
U.S. Politics/Foreign Policy
# Peter Beinart on Petraeus as Ike
# Joseph Nye on Obama's nuclear agenda
# Bret Stephens on Obama's Nobel Prize
# Al Kamen's "In the Loop"
# "Embassy Row" - the Washington Times
Of Interest
# Journalists are fleeing Iran as fast as they can get out
# There is slow progress being made in Iraq
# Mary Dejevsky thinks Tony Blair should not be Europe's president
# Jeremy Phillips on the internet as a disrupter of everything
From the Blogs
# Obama's problems with the left on Afghanistan...more from Ackerman
# Hassan Abbas on the Taliban's latest attacks
# Hendrik Hertzberg on Obama's peace prize