The Rundown -- September 16

# "Washington Examiner" picks up Li Luo's infographic on foreign fighters in Iraq and Syria

# Daily Beast cites RFE/RL reporting on anti-gay acts in Kazakhstan

# "The Nation" cites RFE/RL reporting on Scottish referendum

# RFE/RL Russian Service coverage of LGBT rally cited in Muftah in piece about nationalist split

# Carnegie mentions RFE/RL in piece about West's long-term readiness for Ukraine

# Russia warns of "far-reaching, unfortunate consequences" over "ethnic tensions" in Baltics; full speech text

# Russia to create emergency fund to deal with sanctions

# "Russians Will Not Yield" - Sergey Karaganov, "Financial Times"

# What Russia was saying about Ukraine one year ago

# "Bitter Survivors and Caravans of Coffins from Ukraine’s “Eastern Boiler”" - Anna Nemtsova, Daily Beast

Ian Bateson

# "How Putin Got His Way in Ukraine" - Simon Shuster, "Time"

# Decadent Kyiv

# Five ways for NATO, U.S. to support Ukraine

# Photos: Kyiv in '55

Middle East

# Khamenei says he personally rejected U.S. offer on cooperation over IS; Kerry says open to it

# Iran providing logistical support, weapons to fighters in Iraq

# Iran rethinking its support for Assad

# Why the candidates can't reach a deal

# Could Karzai stay on?

# Al-Qaeda Indian branch "laughing stock" of terror world?

# "Imran Khan’s Threat to Pakistan Democracy" - "Financial Times"

# Turkish EU minister calls for new era in relations with Armenians

# Azerbaijan shows off military industrial complex at country's first weapons show

# Peak Greenwald?