The Rundown -- August 6

RFE/RL in the Media

# Golnaz Esfandiari's reporting on an anti-Ahmadinejad chant cited in "The Washington Post"

# Read Abubakar Siddique in "The Atlantic" on Pakistani activists attempting to get rid of toy guns

# Eurasianet reports on the continuing harassment of RFE/RL Azerbaijani correspondent Khadija Ismayilova

Middle East

# Egypt ends jail terms for insulting the president

# "In a West Bank Culture of Conflict, Boys Wield the Weapon at Hand" - Jodi Rudoren, "The New York Times"
# "The Feminists of Zion" - Allison Kaplan Sommer and Dahlia Lithwick, "The New Republic"

# At least 10, including journalists, sentenced to life in prison in Turkish coup plot

Afghanistan/Pakistan

# Taliban willing to acknowledge mistake in denying girls' education, according to "The Washington Post"

# "Second Guantanamo" in Afghanistan presents challenge for U.S. pullout

# "Insurgents Increasing in East Afghanistan, but Army Sees Gains" - Rob Taylor, Reuters

# Pakistan's "Burka Avenger" set to be broadcast in 60 countries

Russia

# Lady Gaga slams Russia on Twitter over antigay laws

# Husband of opposition municipal deputy beaten up for "looking gay"

# Kremlin booster Sergei Markov says Navalny "chosen by members of the anti-Putin elite who are linked to global oligarchy"

# Four activists sentenced to 8-13 years in prison after "investigation" into Putin's summer dachas

# Steven Pifer on Putin's shrinking importance in U.S. foreign policy

Iran

# Rohani pledges support to Assad

# Iran arrests man on charges of spying for Israel

Iraq

# "Iraq's Clergy Strive to Maintain Legacy Amid Rise of Shia Militias" - Hadeel al-Sayegh, The National

Eastern Europe

# Kyiv court agrees to extradite alleged extreme-right killer to Russia

# Lukashenko "in his own words"

Balkans

# "Tycoon's Trials Rivet Serbia, Land of Graft" - Dan Bilefsky, "The New York Times"

Central Asia

# Appeal denied for jailed opposition leader, Vladimir Kozlov

# "Complacency May Be Kazakhstan’s Biggest Nonproliferation Risk" - Rachel Oswald, Global Security Newswire

Of Interest

# "Snowden and the Paranoid State" - Sarah Kendzior, Al-Jazeera

# Interview with Orhan Pamuk