The Rundown -- February 12

RFE/RL in the Media

# Eurasianet reports RFE/RL Kazakh service social media editor detained in Kazakhstan

# Eurasianet picks up story by Uzbek Service's Mekhribon Bekieva on a girl growing up with HIV

# ohmidog! cites RFE/RL coverage of Sochi dog culling

Russia

# Rodnina says she doesn't understand why people were offended by the banana picture

# Russian oligarch funds shelter for stray dogs of Sochi; a night of dog-rescue smuggling

# Do Americans "hate on Russia" too much?

# Russia attacks Britain's Channel 4 over airing of gay rights film

# Gorbachev stands up to "Daily Show"

Eastern Europe

# "Portraits of the Winners, the Best and Better in Belarus" - "Time"

# "Ukraine Radicals Steer Violence as Nationalist Zeal Grows" - Bloomberg

Iran

# The poet Iran executed and what it says about the regime

# Leaflets criticizing nuclear deal handed out at 35th anniversary celebration

# "Iran Must Embrace Religious Pluralism" - Camelia Entekhabifard, "New York Times"

# Reformist resigns as head of cultural heritage organization

# Iran becoming destination for medical tourists

Iraq

# Iraq to randomly inspect Syria-bound planes from Iran

# An instructor teaching Iraqi militants accidentally sets off car-bomb, killing 21 trainees

Afghanistan/Pakistan

# Kabul has first polio case in 13 years

# "Hamid Karzai is Leaving a Sorry Legacy for Afghanistan" - "Sydney Morning Herald"

# "Pakistan: Where Conspiracy Theories Cost a Child's Life" - Mariya Karimjee, Global Post

# Pakistani Taliban talks conclude

Balkans

# Bosnia unrest puts spotlight on peace accords

# Social media users capture protests

# Nine Serbs convicted for Kosovo massacre

Central Asia

# Kazakhstan devalues currency amid outflows

# Turkmenistan president orders his predecessor off of some state awards