The Rundown -- January 22

RFE/RL in the Media

# Euronews and "Turkish Weekly" report on detention of RFE/RL Ukrainian Service journalists

# "National Review" calls on Russia to "free David Satter" and Jeffrey Gedmin writes about him in The Huffington Post

# Radio Prague reports on death of Milan Schulz, former RFE/RL broadcaster in Munich

Ukraine

# Police push back protesters as one reported dead of "gunshot" wounds

# Azarov says force okay under new protest law

# One activist disappears

# Tracking protesters by mobile phones?

# Lavrov chides West for Ukraine unrest, says Ukraine is "out of control"

# "A New Island of Dictatorship" - Olesia Oleshko, Al Jazeera

# VIDEO: Taiwanese animation of Ukraine protests

Russia

# "Putin's Run For Gold" - Brett Forrest, "Vanity Fair"

# Sochi's "toilet problem"

# Dutch band may play YMCA at Sochi oval

# Russian spy node caught snooping on Facebook

# Video: Medvedev says dis-invitation to Iran "unacceptable"

# Dasha Zhukova in chair "art" scandal (Tate 1969 version)

Middle East

# Gulen says his followers may support secular party challenge to AKP in upcoming elections; Gulen schools around the world

# Syria's witty revolutionaries

# Warring sides gather in Montreux

Iran

# "How Iran Played the U.N." - Colum Lynch and John Hudson, Foreign Policy

# Dance of diplomacy "halted by a misstep"

# Iran says it will be missed in Geneva II talks

Iraq

# Iraqi official warns that militants could take Baghdad

# Iraq says it intends to create three new provinces to soothe sectarian tension

Afghanistan/Pakistan

# "Afghanistan: Rights Setbacks Fan Future Fears" - HRW

# Military submits plans for 10,000 troops to remain in Afghanistan after 2014

# Congress reduces Afghan aid by 50 percent

# Bomb kills seven in police patrol sent to protect polio workers; three Pakistan polio workers shot dead in earlier attack

# British organization says U.S. drone strikes killed four civilians last year

Central Asia

# Gulnara Karimova and her father appear to have made up

# Israel and Kazakhstan discuss joint military exercises

# FYI, fiddlers from Boston to tour Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan

Caucasus

# Is a tablet made in Armenia the next big thing?

# One Armenian soldier killed in border incident with Azerbaijan

Balkans

# Kosovo political leaders "challenge Islamists"

# "Bosnia's Lessons for Syria" - Philippe Leroux-Martin, "New York Times"

Of Interest

# How the "New York Times" created its dialect map