The Rundown -- January 6

RFE/RL in the Media

# RFE/RL's Uzbek Service cited in "The Telegraph" for reporting on Gulnara Karimova's treasures

# Brian Whitmore cited in "Foreign Policy" for analysis on Russia's new "international brand"

Middle East

# "Hazards of Revolution" - Patrick Cockburn, "London Review of Books"

Iraq/Syria

# "Power Vacuum in Middle East Lifts Militants" - Ben Bubbard, Robert Worth and Michael Gordan, "New York Times"

# Twenty killed in Baghdad bombings

# PIC: ISIS top brass travels in coach

Afghanistan/Pakistan

# "Afghanistan's Worsening, and Baffling, Hunger Crisis" - Rod Nordland, "New York Times"

# Kabul's neglected war veterans

# Karzai's media advisor encourages uprising, speaks out against non-religious media

# Afghan Taliban in Pakistan suspect a cross-boarder execution campaign

# Utah gunmaker turns down $15 million deal with Pakistan out of fear guns will be used ti kill Americans

Iran

# Kerry says Iran could help on sidelines of Syria peace talks

# Corruption scandal in Iranian parliament

# Iranian dissidents call for probe into deaths of Iranians in Iraq

# "Iran Continues Subversion Despite the Nuclear Negotiations" - Elliott Abrams, CFR

Russia

# Still time to attend Sochi games, but it will cost

# Can Russia make these games safe?

# A map of every terrorist attack in Russia since 1991

Ukraine

# Did Santa kill the revolution?

# Another Lenin down

Central Asia

# Dissidents break into Gulnara Karimova's house in Geneva, claim to find pilfered goods

# Uzbekistan stops stolen European luxury cars from reaching Tajikistan

Of Interest

# Kim Jung Un probably didn't feed his uncle to 120 ravenous dogs

# The end of human rights

# The lives they loved