The Rundown -- October 9

# Huffington Post Italian cites RFE/RL Crimean unit report on Putin toilet paper

# Top Russian officials starting to realize economy is in trouble; "perfect storm" of bad news for Russian ruble

# Russian economy minister criticizes legislation, passed in Duma, that would compensate those affected by Western sanctions

# The congressman who spied for Russia

# Ten best Putin music videos

# "We Have Made Today's Frankenstein With Our Own Hands" - Maxim Cantor, OpenDemocracy

# Zakharchenko says Strelkov alienated separatist fighters with his disregard for urban areas

# Ten-a-day are dying in eastern Ukraine, despite cease-fire

# "Five Things We Can Learn From the Ukraine Crisis" - Quartz

# "Luhansk, Ukraine: City of Ghosts" - Christopher Miller, Mashable

# Captured Ukrainian pilot's sister to run for parliament

# Is Belarus beginning to thaw?

# Two months of U.S.-led airstrikes in Iraq and Syria, mapped

# Iraqi scholar burns his books to protest Yazidi ethnic cleansing

# Kobani shakes Turkish-Kurd relations

# Khamenei issues red lines ahead of critical nuclear talks

# Why U.S. and Iran aren't quite on the same side in IS fight

# "Let Go of Grudges Against Cuba, Iran" - Stephen Kinzer, "Boston Globe"

Afghanistan/Pakistan

# The boy from Kosovo who grew up to be a suicide bomber

# Bosnia and Herzegovina: the world's most complicated system of government?

# Nazarbayev's "Wall Street Journal" op ed