The Rundown -- September 25

RFE/RL in the Media

# Jeffrey Gedmin writes about RFE/RL's "currency in hope" in the Huffington Post

Middle East

# Muslim Brotherhood banned and assets seized

# "Losing Libya's Revolution" - Nicolas Pelham, "New York Review of Books"

# Fears of mass starvation in Syria

# A sign in Beirut

Iran

# "U.S. and Iran: The Art of a Nuclear Deal" - Ali Gharib, Al Jazeera

# "How Obama Was Checkmated by Iran" - Fouad Ajami, Bloomberg

Russia

# Putin hasn't visited UNGA since 2005

# Russia sells AK-47 stake

# Russia opens piracy case against Greenpeace, which could carry 15 year penalty

# "How Vladimir Putin is Expanding His Empire" - Anne Applebaum, Slate

# "Life in a Russian Prison" - Masha Gessen, "New York Times"

Afghanistan/Pakistan

# Visa for Afghan interpreter, who inspired 100,000 to sign change.org petition, put on hold

# Large earthquake hits Pakistan

# A "war for Pakistan's soul"

# Pakistan to institute death penalty for false blasphemy accusations

Eastern Europe

# Russia threatens to back Ukraine partition

# Ukrainian EU Integration: "Economic Convergence Or Economic Collapse?" - Mark Adomanis, Forbes

# Ukrainian photographer's five years of photos of people sitting on a bench outside his flat

Caucasus

# Russia occupation zone gradually expanding in Georgia

# Aleppo will host Armenian Independence Day celebration

Central Asia

# "Russia’s Future in Central Asia: Mall Cop in A Chinese Shopping Center?" - Jim Brooke, VOA

# HRW on an Uzbek journalist who was "forcibly disappeared"

Balkans

# Serbia to make Romani an official language

# A convicted war criminal urges peace in the Balkans

Of Interest

# Is Twitter more of a privacy threat than Facebook?

# "Is Obama Like Ike?" - Michael Doran, "Commentary"

# The continents before we were born