The Rundown -- January 30

RFE/RL in the Media

# Read Daisy Sindelar in "The Atlantic" on "the hand-drawn faces of Ukraine's uprising"

# Global Voices cites RFE/RL Tajik Service on harassment of women

# Yahoo News German cites RFE/RL's Liz Fuller on Doku Umarov death claims

Ukraine

# Moscow halting billion-dollar aid package until new government is formed

# U.S. readies sanctions against Ukraine

# Is the east deserting Yanukovych?

# "Love and Hatred in Kyiv" - Yuri Andrukhovych, "New York Times"

# A brief history of the Republic of Carpatho-Ukraine

Eastern Europe

# More Finnish channels considering Belarus hockey boycott

Russia

# Dozhd, Russia's only independent news channel being forced to close on Russian cable

# Russian officials "embarrassed" by Syrian government's performance at Geneva talks

# U.S. says Russia tested missile, in violation of treaty

# Czech president wants Russia in the EU within 30 years

# Russian man killed in fight over poetry or prose

# Pete Seeger: "The Death of Stalin's Songbird"

Iran

# Bushehr plant to shut down within days

# Man says he was banned from acting for eight years because he looked too much like Ahmadinejad

# Howard Dean lobbying for MEK

# Zarif says Obama's Iran remarks "for domestic consumption"

# Billionaire, who built up fortune under Ahmadinejad, now in prison

Iraq

# Iraq releases photo of ISIS chief

# Syria war spillover hinders oilfields and pipelines in Iraq

Afghanistan/Pakistan

# Former NATO commander in Afghanistan jail, accused of gunrunning

# Afghanistan signs deal with Eutelsat

# Video: Waziristan after the Taliban

# "Pakistan and US Back at the Table: Why It Matters" - Ali Weinberg, ABC

# "Pakistan's March to Theocracy" - Ayesha Siddiqa, Al Jazeera

# Interview with Richard Armitage on AfPak

Of Interest

# Facebook profit surges on mobile ad growth

# Rise of "European tea parties"