The Rundown -- May 5

# Al Jazeera America interviews Fred Petrossian, of RFE/RL's Radio Farda, on Iran's tech bloggers

# Foreign Policy praises Muhammad Tahir and RFE/RL Turkmen Service

# PolicyMic cites Charles Recknagel's piece comparing Ukrainian and Russian military capabilities

# "Le Monde" cites RFE/RL reporting from Kharkiv (French)

# "Putin Clamps Down: A Chilling Report From Moscow" - Janet Reitman, "Rolling Stone"

# "Russia Just Dared the West to Launch an All-Out Economic War" - Jason Karaian, Quartz

# "Why the Russia Sanctions Don't Work" - Anatole Koletsky, Reuters

# "Guardian" says Kremlin behind trolls on its website

# What would Moscow want in a compromise?

# What Putin "chooses not to know" about history

# Clashes continue over the weekend in Odesa

# "Behind the Masks in Ukraine, Many Faces of Rebellion" - C.J. Chivers and Noah Sneider, "New York Times"

# German newspaper reports CIA and FBI advising Ukraine government

# "Ukraine's Election Is Irrelevant" - Linda Kinstler, "New Republic"

# "In a City Near Russia, a Commander’s Call to Battle is Answered" - Anna Nemtsova, "Washington Post"

# App allows separatists to crowd-source information on Ukrainian military movements

# Day of mourning in Afghanistan for landslide victims

# A six-year-old boy relives the terror of the landslide

# In Spite of the Law, Afghan ‘Honor Killings’ of Women Continue

# Pakistan's only legal brewery doing well

# HRW says Iraqi government blocking residents from fleeing fighting

# "On Calm Campus in Northern Iraq, Uneasy Thoughts of Baghdad" - Scott Peterson, Christian Science Monitor

# Rohani faces growing criticism in Iran over nuclear talks

# Iran reportedly detains Spaniards for illegal hunting

# Fars reports Iran test fires missiles defense system

# "Not easy being a journalist" in Iran

# Azerbaijan leads "Guardian" list of "football sponsored shirts of shame"

# "Nagorno-Karabakh After Crimea" - Brenda Shaffer, "Foreign Affairs"

# "Kazakhstan May Be the Next Ukraine" - Richard Lourie, "Moscow Times"

# Kazakhstan reaches deal with Asian Development Bank

# 1964 World's Fair

# Young blood