The Rundown -- July 22

# Read Fred Petrossian in Slate on why Iran's elite get to use Facebook, but ordinary citizens are arrested for using it

# "Russia Beyond the Headlines" cites Robert Coalson's piece on Russian media reaction to MH17 crash

# Separatists release bodies; black boxes given to Malaysian representatives in "bizarre" 1AM press conference

# Intense fighting in Donetsk

# Donetsk water supply reportedly could run out in five days

# CNN video: Donetsk residents flee chaos

# Russian billionaires in "horror" as Putin risks isolation

# "Why Putin Is Willing to Take Big Risks in Ukraine" - Gerald Seib, "Wall Street Journal"

# France says it's prepared to cancel sale of second Mistral to Russia; but is it prepared for backlash from port town?

# Russia firing at Ukraine from within its borders?

# Why Belarus smokes and smuggles cigarettes

# Iranian children win Belarus painting competition

# Moldova says Russian fruit ban is punishment

# Iran pushing limits on nuclear deal warns former Obama adviser

# Is Iran about to lash out at its dissidents?

# "Fuzzy Math From Iran Hawks" - Ali Gharib, "The Nation"

Iraq
# More western fighters joining militants in Iraq and Syria

# Militants seize Iraq monastery

# "Iraq: The minorities of Nineveh Plain" - Mina al-Lami, BBC

# Saddam's former deputy now working with ISIL

# Afghanistan sending $500,000 in aid to Gaza

# China to play a "huge" commercial role in Afghanistan after U.S. withdrawal

# Pakistan army may be fighting militants in the wrong place

# "The Camel Ambulance of Achro Thar" - Tehmina Qureshi, Roads and Kingdoms

# Kazakhstan and EU negotiate new partnership and cooperation agreement

# Armenia's "neo-pagans"

# Tuzla likely to become WizzAir operational base

# How John Kerry's Israel-Palestine peace plan died

# Wrestling news