The Rundown -- August 18

# Hollywood Reporter quotes Nenad Pejic on the possibility for expanded Russian language programming

# CNN and YahooNews use RFE/RL video of anti-government protests in Pakistan

# German Marshall Fund writes about Moldovan Service's Sabina Fati's Silk Road blog

# Foreign ministers meet; Russia says "certain progress" achieved

# Police detain activists at pro-federalization protests in Siberia

# EU stalling on Gazprom antitrust case

# "Sanctions Hurt Putin" - Sergei Guriev, "Moscow Times"

# "Ukraine's Struggle Endangers Its Democracy" - Matthew Kupfer, "Moscow Times"

# "Novorossia Is Coming Apart At the Seams" - Anna Nemtsova, Foreign Policy

# A review of Andrei Kurkov's "Ukraine diaries"

# Fresh parliamentary elections in doubt

# Moldova may leave CIS

# Mosul dam operation largest since U.S. withdrew forces

# "Escape From Syria: On the Road With the Refugees Walking to Europe" - Alev Scott, "Newsweek"

# A reporter's dispatch after a lethal helicopter crash

# Captured Yazidi women may be forced to marry IS fighters

# UN says Iran willing to cooperate on nuclear probe

# Khamenei takes to Twitter to slam Ferguson events

# Western journalists still detained a month later

# 35 people found in UK shipping container are Sikhs from Afghanistan

# Khan calls for mass civil disobedience

# Indian hacker group defaces Pakistan railway site

# Why it feels like a crime to be Christian in Pakistan

# "How Cherie Blair Earns £1,000 an Hour From the Kazakh Taxpayer" - Robert Mendick, "Telegraph

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