The Rundown -- April 22

# "Miami Herald" refers to RFE/RL in column about free expression

# "New York Times" uses RFE/RL video and my tweets in coverage of Putin's Q and A

# "The New Republic" cites RFE/RL in feature on "the next Ukraine" in the former Soviet space

# Heritage Foundation recommends putting RFE/RL under direction of NED

# Read Ildar Gabidullin in Al Jazeera on the possibilities for referendums in Russia

# Read Daud Khattak in the "Express Tribune" on the dangers to journalists in Pakistan

# Read Carl Schreck in "The Atlantic" on Soviet rock and roll

# Snowden may regret decision to question Putin

# Obama losing influence among BRICS

# "What Putin Is Costing Russia" - Ilan Berman, "Wall Street Journal"

# "Putin and the Exile" - David Remnick, "New Yorker"

# "In Cold War Echo, Obama Strategy Writes Off Putin" - Peter Baker, "New York Times"

# Who will suffer and who will benefit from Obama's new "containment" policy

# Lavrov threatens to "stop" civil war

# Photos link masked men in East Ukraine to Russia

# "Donetsk People's Republic's" anti-Semitic intro to its TV channel

# Will Ukraine be stable enough for next month's elections?

# "Donetsk Greets the Ukraine Crisis With a Shrug" - Simon Shuster, "Time"

# Press conferences in eastern Ukraine getting "weirder and weirder"

# "Under Russia, Life in Crimea Grows Chaotic" - Neil MacFarquhar, "New York Times"

# Which former Soviet State could be next?

# Moldova prohibits Russian TV channels

# "Putin Adversary to Obama: We Need You" - Jeffrey Goldberg, Bloomberg

# Film about Belarus "Shows Putin's Bleak Vision for Eastern Europe"

# U.S. forces in Afghanistan may drop well below 10,000 troops

# Review of "The Wrong Enemy: America in Afghanistan, 2001-2014"

# On the dangers of reporting from Afghanistan

# Pakistan "backs Narendra Modi" as India's next PM

# "Transgender Community Gears Up for Jobs Other Than Dancing and Begging" - "Express Tribune"

# Tehran angry about seizure of New York skyscraper

# Iran to cut gas subsidy this week

# Iran denies reports of attack on Elvin prison

# Nuclear agency reshuffle in Iran

# Iran to allow first public concert

# Video: Iranian version of "Happy"

# Iraq long-read in the "New Yorker": "That trusted middleman is still us. And we are not there"

# Attacks across Iraq kill at least 33

# "Azerbaijan and the Bear Next Door" - Norma Zager, "The Hill"

# CPJ condemns jailing of Azerbaijani journalist on espionage charges

# Space war with China