The Rundown -- November 21

RFE/RL

# RFE/RL mentioned in "New York Times" for its coverage of Gulnara Karimova intrigue

# Slate cites Mark Baker's post on Facebook "recognizing" Kosovo as a country

# "Seattle Times" cites reporting of Arbana Vidishiqi and Antoine Blua on Albania's refusal to take Syrian chemical weapons

# Read Heather Maher's interview with Peter Savodnik on Oswald, in "The Atlantic"

Middle East

# Eleven soldiers killed in Egypt suicide bombing

# "Lebanon and the Long Reach of Syria's Conflict" - Dexter Filkins, "New Yorker"

# Borderlands

Iran

# U.S. "uncomfortable" with Khamenei's "rabid dog" statement

# Sixty-four percent of Americans support nuclear deal with Iran

# "Let's Make a Deal" - Thomas Friedman, "New York Times"

# Israel and Gulf's "strange alliance" against Iran

# Eleven things you "need to know" about Iran talks

Afghanistan/Pakistan

# Kabul and Washington agree on deal; full text

# U.S. Afghanistan projects will "fall apart when we leave"

# "Looking Away from Genocide" - Gary Bass, "New Yorker"

# "Pakistan's New Generation of Terrorists" - Zachary Laub, CFR

Russia

# Netanyahu in Moscow to lobby Russia on Iran

# Nine more Greenpeace activists granted bail

# U.S.-Arab "strains" give Moscow chance at clout

# Russia's "malaise" in five charts

Eastern Europe

# Ukraine's "East-West Tug of War" - Oksana Grytsenko and Shaun Walker, "Guardian"

# On the morality of economic pressure-points

Central Asia

# "Kazakhstan Bets Its Oil Riches on Railroads" - Keith Brasher, "New York Times"

Caucasus

# "Azerbaijan is Absolutely Not a Model for Political Reform" - Mark Adomanis, Forbes

Of Interest

# Facebook driving much more traffic to news sites

# "Old Poland, New Nationalism" - Artur Domoslawski, "New York Times"

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