The Rundown -- July 9

# Yahoo News uses RFE/RL Afghanistan video of Abdullah speech

# "Putin's Secret Weapon" - Mark Galeotti, Foreign Policy

# Moscow accuses U.S. of "kidnapping" alleged Russian hacker

# Navalny publishes photos of alleged Rotenberg mansion

# "Winning the Information War" - Jakub Parusinski, "Kyiv Post"

# "Aid Elusive, Crimea Farms Face Hurdles"- Neil MacFarquhar, "New York Times"

# "Inside The Quiet Struggle For LGBT Rights In Ukraine" - Rebecca McCray, ThinkProgress

# Steven Pifer takes on Stephen Cohen's claims about crisis in the east

# AP appoints Pete Leonard Kyiv bureau chief

# UN says Islamic State executed imam of mosque where Baghdadi preached

# Iraq VP to U.S.: Stay Out of Our Civil War

# Chinese hackers are really curious about the U.S. and Iraq

# Jihadi brides from West seek lives with militants on the front lines

# Khamenei says Iran needs significantly greater uranium enrichment

# Iranian lawmakers want to restrict Khatami from public

# Iranian reporter sentenced to two years in prison and 50 lashes

# "Iran's Russia Problem" - Mark Hibbs, Carnegie

# Abdullah has not declared a parallel government, but says he won vote

# Crisis risks "splitting country"

# "Pakistan's War At Home" - Shahid Javed Burki, Project Syndicate

# On army foray, "get used to disappointment"

# Uzbek food in Queens and Brooklyn

# Video: CNBC analysis of Kazakhstan tourism push

# Beard-shaving attack stokes sectarian tension in Azerbaijan

# The next big programming language you've never heard of