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The Rundown - October 26


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

RFE/RL in the Media
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"The Cable" posts RFE/RL's interview with Mikhail Gorbachev
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New Europe cites RFE/RL's Joe Biden interview
# Registan on traveling to Uzbekistan

On the RFE/RL Website
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An interview with Joe Biden
# The effects of new media in authoritarian countries

Int'l Press Review

Sunday Morning Talk Shows
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Fareed Zakaria interviews Hamid Karzai
# John King interviews Abdullah Abdullah (no video)
# John McCain discusses Afghanistan on "Face the Nation"
# "Meet the Press" discusses Iraq
# The analysis of Shields & Brooks

Afghanistan/Pakistan
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Fareed Zakaria cautions against an Afghan surge
# Joshua Kurlantzick hopes Afghanistan turns into Vietnam
# David Ignatius on the Pakistani offensive in Waziristan
# Abdullah Abdullah may boycott the runoff
# There were anti-American protests in Kabul over the weekend

Iran
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Karim Sadjadpour on why Iran arrests innocents
# Michael Adler on the Iranian shell game
# The NYT ed board on Iran's human rights record

Russia
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Ingush opposition leader, Maksharip Aushev, was killed on Sunday
# Vladimir Frolov on Medvedev's re-election platform
# Yevgeny Kiselyov on Ukraine's elections and Moscow's interests

Iraq
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David Ignatius on the resiliency of Baghdad
# Patrick Cockburn thinks Iraq is nowhere near safe
# Sami Ramadani thinks Iraq is falling back to chaos

The Balkans
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The trial of Radovan Karadzic is set to begin

U.S. Politics/Foreign Policy
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Obama consults Medvedev and Sarkozy on Iran
# Al Kamen's "In the Loop"
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