The Rundown -- April 23

# Council on Foreign Relations cites Daisy Sindelar's interview with Ivan Lozowy

# Today's Zaman cites RFE/RL reporting on Crimean Tatar leader

# Navalny may be jailed for a long time after latest conviction

# New law restricts Russian bloggers

# Germany "helped prepare Russia for war"

# "Putin's Empire of the Mind" - Mark Galleotti and Andrew Bowen, Foreign Policy

# Can Snowden survive against Putin?

# DC theatre cancels major Russian theatre festival

# Doubts raised about photos tying Russian units to Ukraine

# After body of politician found in Slovyansk, Turchynov relaunches "antiterror" operation

# Simon Ostrovsky, Vice News correspondent, detained in Slovyansk

# In Ukraine both sides call the other fascist

# Donetsk cousins: one's a Ukrainian nationalist, the other's a separatist

# Poroshenko visited Israel in secret to ask for support for territorial integrity

# "Fact sheet" on U.S. crisis support for Ukraine

# U.S. sending 600 ground troops to eastern Europe this week

# Belarusian vacationers to avoid Crimea this year

# Lukashenka warns against repeat of Ukraine "mistakes"

# Iran's divorce rate is rising

# #mustseeIran hashtag creates two very different pictures of Iran

# In letters, Evin prisoners describe brutal attack

# "The Iranian Nuclear Deal Is Working" - Joe Cirincione, "The Atlantic"

# Will Afghanistan and Pakistan resume proxy war after U.S. withdrawal?

# Republicans say leaving fewer than 10,000 troops would be "fatal mistake"

# "Why a Regional Security Force Will Not Work in Afghanistan" - Arwin Rahi, The Diplomat

# "Reports of Fraud and Violence Temper Joy Over Election in Chaotic Afghan District" - Azam Ahmed, "New York Times"

# Pakistan army demands Geo news closure

# Iraq teeters on the edge of civil war

# Kazakhstan vets burn magazines comparing Putin to Hitler

# Nazarabayev's nephew in New York apartment row

# Kosovo mayor "fights corruption – by doing his job"

# Reporting on drone strikes

# Speaking of drones

# Journalism prototypes

# Turkey "inept, not evil in Syria"