The Rundown -- July 10

# Yahoo News uses RFE/RL Afghan video of UN press conference in Kabul

# "Guardian" cites Claire Bigg's interview with Emin Milli

# Russia now reportedly shooting at separatists trying to cross border

# Nationalists and rebels angry at Putin

# Dugin calls war between Russia and Ukraine "inevitable"

# Ukrainian pilot captured and charged in Russia with journalists' deaths

# Edward Snowden asks to stay longer in Russia

# "Is There a Future for Ukraine?" - Peter Pomerantsev, "The Atlantic"

# "Putin's Three Choices on Ukraine" - Zbigniew Brzezinski, "Washington Post"

# "The Ukraine Crisis and the Resumption of Great-Power Rivalry" - Dmitri Trenin, Carnegie

# Mixed feelings in Moldova over EU accords

# Islamic state seizes former chemical weapons site; and Iraq claims they have seized nuclear materials too

# War straining country's largest cemetery

# "Shopping for food in a pressure cooker"

# "Why Iraq is More Stable Than You Think" - Douglas Ollivant, Politico

Iran

# More than 1,000 children killed so far this year in Afghanistan, according to UN

# Vice documentary on abandoned U.S. interpreters

# Pakistani terror group swears allegiance to Islamic State

# Alumni rage at admissions reforms at elite Pakistan English-language school

# Kyrgyzstan bitcoin experiment holds promise for migrant workers

# More in Uzbekistan may be pondering emigration with new Russian citizenship rules

# Niyazov book no longer required reading in Turkmenistan

# The Georgian roots of an ISIL commander

# Vox and 538 disappoint data expert

# NPR says retweets are endorsements

# An argument for continuing to spy on the Germans