The Rundown -- November 4

RFE/RL in the Media

# MSNBC cites Claire Bigg's reporting on Orthodox Russian railway broadcasts

# RFE/RL reporting on Russia missile tests cited in "Ottawa Citizen"

# Read Claire Bigg in "The Atlantic" on the Belarusians who aren't happy about the Austrian drag queen set to perform at Eurovision

Middle East

# Kerry visits Cairo as Morsi trial begins

# "Egyptian John Stewart's" TV show suspended

# Hamas writing textbooks in Gaza

# No woman, no drive

Iran

# Khamenei says he's skeptical of nuclear talks, but warns hardliners not to undermine them

# "Death to America" to go on at "den of spies" protest

# Jewish groups announce "time out" on Iran sanctions campaign

# "Talk to Iran, It Works" - Ryan Crocker, "New York Times"

Afghanistan/Pakistan

# After drone strike kills Taliban leader, Pakistan says it's reconsidering thaw with U.S.

# "In Pakistan, Death by Drone Turns a Villain Into a Martyr" - Declan Walsh, "New York Times"

# "The Drone Didn't Kill a Taliban Peacemaker" - Damien McElroy, "The Telegraph"

# The $120,000 farmhouse where Mehsud died

# "The Other Big Afghan Crisis: The Growing Army of Addicts" - Azam Ahmed, "New York Times"

# Despite $7 billion to combat it, poppy trade still flourishing

Russia

# Tolokonnikova missing for almost two weeks

# Bolotnaya trials sour protest mood in Moscow

# "Pogroms are becoming a reality"

# Russia's pre-Sochi terror crackdown

# "Russia's Foreign Policy is Nearing Complete Failure" - Stephen Sestanovich, "Financial Times"

# Volkswagen on a flag

Balkans

# Kosovo vote marred by violence and intimidation

Eastern Europe

# "Eastern Europe a demographic disaster"

# "Victor Pinchuk Uses Art to Shift Attitudes in Ukraine" - Simon Shuster, "Time"

# "Anti-Semitism in the Ukraine and Elsewhere in Europe" - Michael Curtis, "The American Thinker"

# Massive "pro-Europe" rally in Chisinau

Central Asia

# Tajikistan election analysis

# Britain accused of "abandoning" embassy worker to Uzbek torture

# "Kyrgyzstan’s Most Wanted" - Philip Shishkin, "Foreign Affairs"

Of Interest

# Horthy statues popping up in Hungary

# Thousands of FBI files lost in Sandy

# Covering the LAX shooting on Twitter