The Rundown -- July 30

RFE/RL in the Media

# Read Robert Coalson in "The Atlantic" on Aleksei Navalny's nationalist streak

Egypt

# "U.S. Balancing Act With Egypt Grows Trickier" - Mark Landler, "The New York Times"

# "Sisi's Islamist Agenda for Egypt" - Robert Springborg, "Foreign Affairs"

# Abbas in Cairo

# Photo - Louie Armstrong plays for wife in Giza, 1961

Syria

# "In Syria, Journalists Risk Lives to Cover Story Public Doesn't Care About" - Tom Fenton, "Global Post"

# A Conversation with Father Paolo of Syria

# Two Syrians try to leave

Russia

# "West Needs to Criticise Putin – but not Support His Rivals" - Anatol Lieven, "The Financial Times"

# "Shame on the IOC, NBC and Foreign Governments for Turning a Blind Eye on Russia's LGBT Hate Campaign" - Nancy Goldstein, "The Guardian"

# Aeroflot to launch "budget" airline

"From Russia, Unbreakable Computer Code" - Clay Dillow, "Fortune"

Afghanistan/Pakistan

# Video - Paradise wants to be an Afghan hip-hop star

# Monitoring Afghanistan after the pullout

# "Afghanistan Waters Filled With Swan Boats" - Jay Price, "McClatchy"

# Migratory birds being killed in Afghanistan

# Leader of Pakistan's MQM party lives in London

Iran

# Conservative MP, Ahmadinejad foe, calls for release of political prisoners

# On trying to buy birth control in Iran

# Anglican ex-bishop says Rouhani is "best hope for peace"

# "Hassan Rouhani's Burden" - Ray Takeyh, "Los Angeles Times"

# Iran's next foreign minister is U.S.-educated

# Photo - Tehran, as seen from the International Space Station

Caucasus

# A bus boycott in Yerevan

Eastern Europe

# Law enforcement trained for cyber-crime and sex-trafficking prevention in Moldova

# Major Ukrainian chocolate brand banned by Russia

Of Interest

# "Confessions of a Google Glass Explorer" - Gary Shteyngart, "The New Yorker"

# "The Seven Wikipedia Topics More Controversial Than Jesus" - Melissa Stefan, "Christianity Today"

# "What the Pope Meant by His Gay Priests Comment" - David M. Perry, "The Atlantic"

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