The Rundown -- August 26

# CNN uses RFE/RL video of Pakistan protests

# Book on history of RFE/RL mentioned in Daily Beast story about a potential victims of Communism memorial

# Baltic Times cites RFE/RL on Abkhazia elections

# AP witnesses Russian weapons convoys rolling into east Ukraine

# "Russia is Already Invading Ukraine" - David Frum, "Atlantic"

# Sanctions limiting Russian lenders' access to foreign financing

# In Donetsk, woman accused of helping Ukraine, forced to take humiliating public abuse

# Poroshenko dissolves parliament

# Turchynov says military action likely to end by October

# Slim chance of progress at today's Poroshenko, Putin, EU meeting

# Higher number of Ukrainians support Ukrainian independence than ever before

# The mystery over the downed drone

# Iran says it arrested four "spies" associated with its nuclear program

# Iran's divorce rate rising

# On the frontline with the Shi'ite fighters battling IS

# IS accused of ethnic cleansing after Mosul prison massacre

# Mideast rivals come together against IS

# "ISIS and the New Middle East Cold War" - Gregory Grause, Brookings

# U.S. general in Afghanistan for transition talks

# Financial crisis looming over Afghanistan

# "How Iraq Explains Why U.S. Shouldn't Leave Afghanistan" - Paul Miller, Foreign Policy

# Pakistan cleric warns of 48-hour deadline; but court gives protesters 24 hours to clear avenue

# Frontline: Pakistan’s “Forgotten Crisis”

Caucasus

# Facebook updates "click-baiting" algorithm

# How the NSA built its own secret Google