The Rundown -- July 30

# Business Insider cites Tom Balmforth's report on efforts to brand certain governments "aggressor countries"

# CNN, affiliate, use Iraqi Service video of Christian march in Dohuk

# New sanctions: Here's where they'll hurt; but still plenty of loopholes

# "The West Has Cornered Putin—and That's When He's Most Dangerous" - Julia Ioffe, "New Republic"

# Russia considering ban on EU fruit imports

# "Putin's Ukraine Unreality Show" - Arkady Ostrovsky, "Wall Street Journal"

# Reuters investigation: "Where Ukraine's separatists get their weapons"

# Shaun Walker meets Igor Bezler, who threatens to execute him

# Ukraine fighting closing in on Donetsk

# 17 Horlivka hostages reportedly released

# CNN video: Ukraine has fired ballistic missiles at rebels

# Belarus considers ban on Ukrainian beef and dairy

# The Belarusians fighting on both sides of the Ukraine conflict

# With war at home, some Ukrainian soldiers fighting in Afghanistan

# Suicide bomber kills Hamid Karzai's cousin

# State Department report says Pakistan not punishing attackers of religious minorities

# Free of the Taliban, Pakistan’s Pashtun poets revive their craft

# Khamenei calls for Muslims around the world to help arm Gaza

# Why Iran fears an independent Kurdistan

# James Jeffrey: Iraq Was a “Historic, Dramatic” Failure for Bush and Obama

# ISIL's wedding bureau

# Militants reportedly hold mass execution in Tikrit

# U.S. plans largest ever sale of Hellfire missiles to Iraq

# Turkmenistan joins list of world's worst religious freedom violators

# How strong is the Islamic movement of Uzbekistan?

# Would Turkey consider free trade agreement with Eurasian Union?

# Azerbaijan to buy Russian Yak-130 combat trainers

# The British PR firms spinning stories for dictators