The Rundown -- May 22

# Golnaz Esfandiari quoted in BBC and "Guardian" and interviewed on PRI on arrest of "happy" Iranians

# Rifts among the separatists come out into the open

# "Inside the 11-Story Building That's Calling Itself the People's Republic of Donetsk" - Julia Ioffe, "New Republic"

# Seven things to know about Ukraine's election

# Committee finds 17 law enforcement officers were killed in Feb 18-21 clashes

# Why Putin and Xi want to be best buddies

# Russia-China deal could be "death blow" to effectiveness of western sanctions

# Kerry doesn't see "any relationship whatsoever" between gas deal and events in Ukraine

# Russia vows to retaliate against expanded Magnitsky list

# Russian Foreign Ministry demands UK issue "clarification" on Prince Charles linking Putin to Hitler

# Afghanistan economy falters as NATO mission ends

# Afghanistan's government split as Karzai suspends special forces chiefs

# Women groups being deserted in Afghanistan

# How will Modi change India's relationship with Pakistan?

# "Pakistan's Boko Haram" - Malik Siraj Akbar, Huffington Post

# Iran mulls sending observers to monitor Syria election

# Iran in the midst of tourism boom

# "New Yorker" profiles Zarif

# Enrichment capacity seen as key hurdle to Iran deal

# "Kazakhstan is an Abusive Dictatorship – the UK Should Not Court It" - Aigerim Dzhakisheva, "Guardian"

# New deaths reported in restive east of Tajikistan

# Twitter's "selective censorship"