The Rundown -- June 23

# GulfNews mentions "crackdown" on RFE/RL in Azerbaijan

# ViceNews uses RFE/RL video of residents fleeing Pakistan's N. Waziristan

# RFE/RL Tajik story about detained academic cited in Toronto Metro News and London Free Press

# Read Daisy Sindelar in "The Atlantic" about an anti-Putin swear that has gone mainstream

# "Sacramento Bee" story asks whether RT is presenting a more balanced view than RFE/RL about "Ukraine, Poland, Hungary, Slovakia and Bulgaria"

# Separatists attack Ukrainian positions despite ceasefire

# "Ukrainian Army Fights Rebels and Neglect" - Caroll Morello, "Washington Post"

# "Common History Pulls in Aid from west Russia" - BBC

# Why separatist movement failed in Kharkiv

# Separatist weddings

# Kyiv's teen-targeted opera

# Putin says he backs cease-fire, but puts troops on alert

# TechCrunch says Skolkovo project "back on track"

# Russian Interior Ministry drafts 10 year plan for combatting online extremism

# In alleged recording Sikorski criticizes U.S. for failing to return "blow job"

# Review of Belarus Free Theatre's new production

# Prominent Belarusian rights' activist freed

# ISIL captures major Iraqi border post

# How backers of the Sunni rebels see Iraq

# Iraq conflict puts strain on Syrian military

# Iraqi government condemns Kurds for "illegal" sale of oil to Israel

# "It's Not Too Late to Reengage With Iraq'" - Ryan Crocker, "Washington Post"

# U.S.-Iran alliance would be a "disaster" for U.S. and Middle East

# Khamenei opposes U.S. action in Iraq

# Netanyahu says U.S. should avoid it

# Audio appears to portray Afghan election officials organizing widespread fraud using code word, "stuffed sheep"

# A list of election analyses and reads

# The U.S. drones that vanished in Afghanistan without a trace

# A Christian convert, on the run in Afghanistan

# IOC may suspend Pakistan

# Kosovo Albanians clash with police in Mitrovice

# The difficulties of selling work in the digital world