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The Rundown - March 26


Russia
# Boris Berezovsky speaking at the Frontline Club in 2007
# Keith Gessen on the death of Boris Berezovsky
# Amnesty International on NGO raids in Russia
# Stockpiling snow in Sochi

Afghanistan/Pakistan
# GRAPHIC: drone strike (deaths) in Pakistan
# The debate over Nowruz in Afghanistan

Cyprus
# On foreign exposure in Cyprus
# All that Russian money has to go somewhere

Syria
# WATCH: life in Aleppo

Technology
# A Google Android virus was used to track Uighur activists
# Make your iPhone a sat phone

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RFE/RL In The Media
# Read RFE/RL in "The Atlantic" on the life and death of Boris Berezovsky
# "The Man Behind Putin" - Masha Gessen, "The New York Times"

International Press Review

Russia
# A post-mortem investigation reveals that Boris Berezovsky was hanged
# Stitching together YouTube videos for a picture of the Russian meteorite
# Vladimir Zhirinovsky was re-elected leader of the Liberal Democratic Party of Russia

Afghanistan/Pakistan
# Hamid Karzai praised the U.S. in a press conference with Secretary of State John Kerry
# "Der Spiegel" interviews Pervez Musharraf

Iran
# The "BBC" interviews Babak Zanjani
# Stuxnet may have been "an act of force"
# Iranian politicians are focused on upcoming elections, not the nuclear issue

Cyprus
# "The Cyprus Crisis Is a Postmortem for Russia" - Anders Aslund, "Moscow Times"
# The Kremlin is not impressed with the Euro zone
# "Cyprus: It’s Not Over Yet" - Felix Salmon, "Reuters"

Syria
# The war through the eye of Syria's Shi'ites
# How Georgia and Azerbaijan are involved in the Syria conflict
# "The Jihadist from Phoenix" - Tepper & Zion, "Foreign Policy"

Science & Technology
# Facebook is going outside Facebook for info on its users
# Earth is a rare thing
# Russian is now the second most used language on the web

U.S. Politics/Foreign Policy
# Hillary Clinton as the 2016 front-runner
# The U.S. "is on the same page" as the Afghan government over talks with the Taliban
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