The Rundown -- November 20

RFE/RL in the Media

# AP covers cyberattack against RFE/RL

# RIA Novosti cites RFE/RL Armenian service on meeting between Armenian and Azerbaijan presidents
# Golnaz Esfandiari speaks on BBC about Iranian expectations for nuclear deal

# Reporters Without Borders refers to harassment of Radio Farda journalists' families in Iran

Middle East

# Sectarian tensions on display after suicide blast in Beirut

# "Inside Syria's Next Big Battle" - Mike Giglio, Buzzfeed

Iran

# Obama asks Congress to give negotiations a chance; behind the scenes progress

# "Stuxnet's Secret Twin" - Ralph Langner, "Foreign Policy"

# "Split on Accord on Iran Strains U.S.-Israel Ties" - David Sanger and Jodi Rudoren, "New York Times"

# Is the Arak reactor a red herring?

# Congressman says Iran can show it's changed by releasing American prisoner

# Former Mossad chief says Israel is "indestructible"

Iraq

# Iraq hangs twelve prisoners

# "Iraq's Unknown Future" - Mustafa Al-Kadhimi, Al Monitor

Russia

# Nine Greenpeace activists to be freed on bail

# "How to Fly in Russia and Survive" - Leonid Bershidsky, Bloomberg

# "Meanwhile, on the Internet: Russia, Buzzfeed and the West" - Jamie Rann, The Calvert Journal

# Russia's new pensions formula

Afghanistan/Pakistan

# In final moments, still sticking points precluding U.S.-Afghanistan agreement

# "The 'Dissenting' Clerics Killed in Afghanistan" - Dawood Azami, BBC

# "Will Musharraf’s Treason Trial Help Democracy in Pakistan?" - Kashif Ali, World Affairs Journal

# Pakistan businesses hurt by energy crisis

Eastern Europe

# Ukraine stalls on vote to release Tymoshenko

# Lavrov criticizes "unforgivable pressure" by EU on Ukraine

# Moldova called "a hostage in a geopolitical game"

Bosnia

# Bosnian court releases ten genocide convicts

Caucasus

# Sarkisian and Aliyev meet in Vienna

Of Interest

# Hollande, flailing at home, takes on assertive role in foreign policy

# Because no

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