The Rundown -- August 21

# Wolfgang Renicke, writing in Project Syndicate, suggests RFE/RL create a Hungarian service

# "Wall Street Journal" Marketwatch cites RFE/RL report about Ramzan Kadyrov's cell phone search

# Read Golnaz Esfandiari in Informed Comment about Iranian officials' reaction to an Iranian woman winning a prestigious math prize

# Read Anna Shamanska in the "Atlantic" on Russian TV's efforts to tie Ukrainian leaders to separatists

# Read Tom Balmforth and Glenn Kates in the "Guardian" on the painting of a Stalin tower in Ukrainian colors

# Read Glenn Kates in the "Guardian" on who's in and who's out among the separatists

# Ferguson perfect for Russian trolling

# Russia closes four McDondalds for sanitary violations

# Russia wants Bulgarians to stop vandalizing Soviet monuments

# "Russian Agriculture Struggles to Meet Self-Sufficiency Challenge" - Kathrin Hille, "Financial Times"

# "The Top Secret Family Life of Vladimir Putin" - Owen Matthews, "Newsweek"

# "Plenty of Room at the Top of Ukraine’s Fading Rebellion" - Andrew Kramer, "New York Times"

# "Why the Ukraine Crisis Is the West’s Fault" - John J. Mearsheimer, "Foreign Affairs"

# Richard Branson has a plan to solve the Ukraine crisis

# Ukraine super-rich helping fund and fight

# Not sure if this is real

# The social media strategy behind James Foley's murder

# "the new barbarians"

# One Yazidi refuses to convert so IS kills everyone

# Vice Video: Yazidis from mountain have mostly fled to Syria, under protection of PKK

# UN calls Iraq most rapidly developing humanitarian disaster in recent memory

# Iran's parliament dismisses moderate science minister

# "Sanctions Cause Iranian Airplane Crashes" - Amir Handjani, "The Hill"

# Iran "giving advice" to Iraqi Kurds

# Photojournalist held in Iran released on bail

# Afghanistan orders expulsion of "New York Times" correspondent

# Coalition soldier stabbed to death in Afghanistan

# Protesters threaten violence in Islamabad

# "The Fate of Feminism in Pakistan" - Bina Shah, "New York Times"

# Karimov visits China

# Satellite: Where China and Kazakhstan meet

# Vine just got much better

# How Norwegian public radio is using Snapchat to attract younger audiences

# Should Twitter and YouTube remove Foley images?