The Rundown -- April 29

# BBC cites RFE/RL Uzbek Service on broadcast towers being rigged to self-destruct

# Read Tom Balmforth in "The Atlantic" on Ukraine's invisible presidential election

# "The Independent" cites Claire Bigg's interview with Conchita Wurst

# List of those added to U.S. sanctions

# What it means

# "U.S. Sanctions Push Putin Toward His Dream of A New Financial System" - Simon Shuster, "Time"

# Eight killed in drug rehab center fire in far east

# Schroeder celebrates 70th with Putin (in German)

# "Amid Crisis Ukraine's Jews Say 'Leave Us Out of It'" - Sabra Ayres, Christian Science Monitor

# Ukraine has lost at least $80 billion since Russia took Crimea

# Is the press serving as a platform for thugs?

# "Kyiv's Brittle Spring" - Natalia Antonova

# "Ukraine: Hate in Progress" - Tim Judah, "New York Review of Books

# Ostrovsky describes the SBU basement

# Interactive: Chernobyl: Capping a Catastrophe

# Is Lukashenka the real winner in Ukraine?

# Infographic: Aircraft deploying to eastern Europe

# Visa free travel from Moldova begins

# Militants pose threat on eve of elections

# Iraq prepares for "bitter, bloody" election battle

# Iran and Russia discuss over $10 billion in electricity deals

# Controversial "I am Rohani" film

# Formerly underground singer steps into Iran spotlight

# Khatami urges freedom for political prisoners

# A "war of narratives" in Pakistan

# Lessons from eastern Afghanistan

# Afghan "torturer in chief" now lives in the U.S.

# Will ties with Pakistan improve under a new Afghan president?

# "A Millionaire Saves The Silenced Symphonies Of Pakistan" - NPR

# Human rights advocate and husband detained in Azerbaijan

# Former U.S. Ambassador to Azerbaijan says conditions in the country are the worst ever

# Tajikistan government trying to prevent opposition revenue streams

# Year after inglorious fall, Turkmen president wins Horse Day again

# Number 17

# An Egyptian judge, nicknamed "the butcher"