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Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) is a United States government-funded broadcasting organization that provides news, information, and analysis to countries in Eastern Europe, Central Asia and the Middle East "where the free flow of information is either banned by government authorities or not fully developed".

RFE/RL is a 501(c)(3) corporation that receives U.S. government funding and is supervised by the Broadcasting Board of Governors, an agency overseeing all U.S. federal government international broadcasting services.

Iran (also; '), also known as Persia, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran ('), is a sovereign state in Western Asia.

It is bordered to the northwest by Armenia, the de facto Nagorno-Karabakh Republic, and Azerbaijan; to the north by the Caspian Sea; to the northeast by Turkmenistan; to the east by Afghanistan and Pakistan; to the south by the Persian Gulf and the Gulf of Oman; and to the west by Turkey and Iraq.

Comprising a land area of, it is the second-largest country in the Middle East and the 18th-largest in the world.

With 82.8 million inhabitants, Iran is the world's 17th-most-populous country.

It is the only country with both a Caspian Sea and an Indian Ocean coastline.

The country's central location in Eurasia and Western Asia, and its proximity to the Strait of Hormuz, make it of great geostrategic importance.

Tehran is the country's capital and largest city, as well as its leading economic and cultural center.

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Pakistan (or), officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, is a federal parliamentary republic in South Asia on the crossroads of Central Asia and Western Asia.

It is the sixth-most populous country with a population exceeding 200 million people.

In terms of area, it is the 33rd-largest country in the world with an area covering.

Pakistan has a coastline along the Arabian Sea and the Gulf of Oman in the south and is bordered by India to the east, Afghanistan to the west, Iran to the southwest, and China in the far northeast, respectively.

It is separated from Tajikistan by Afghanistan's narrow Wakhan Corridor in the north, and also shares a maritime border with Oman.

Afghanistan (Pashto/Dari, Afġānistān), officially the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, is a landlocked country located within South Asia and Central Asia.

It has a population of approximately 32 million, making it the 42nd most populous country in the world.

It is bordered by Pakistan in the south and east; Iran in the west; Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, and Tajikistan in the north; and China in the far northeast.

Its territory covers, making it the 41st largest country in the world.

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Russia, also officially the Russian Federation, is a country in Eurasia.

At, Russia is the largest country in the world by surface area, covering more than one-eighth of the Earth's inhabited land area, and the ninth most populous, with over 144 million people at the end of March 2016.

The European western part of the country is much more populated and urbanised than the eastern; about 77% of the population live in European Russia.

Russia's capital Moscow is one of the largest cities in the world, other major urban centers include Saint Petersburg, Novosibirsk, Yekaterinburg, Nizhny Novgorod and Kazan.