The Rundown -- October 27

# Mashable uses video from Ukrainian Service's YouTube page of Darth Vader attempting to vote

# YahooNews uses RFE/RL Ukrainian Service video of soldiers voting

# Read Daud Khattak in Foreign Policy on whether IS can gain a foothold in the AFPAK region

# Russia permanently stuck on winter time

# The life of a Ukrainian refugee family in Murmansk

# Ilya Ponomaryov: "The Bolshevik Who Thinks 'The Nation' Is Too Left Wing"

# "Russia Is Trying to End Sanctions and Save Face" - Vladimir Frolov, "Moscow Times"

# Pro-Western parties dominate Ukraine election

# Voting in eastern Ukraine was difficult

# Al Jazeera reports Slovyansk residents angry at Kyiv (turnout was 28 percent)

# "Ukraine Rebels Love Russia, Hate Gays, Threaten Executions" - Anna Nemtsova, Daily Beast

# A look at the terrifying lives in captivity of U.S. and British hostages before their beheadings

# PKK offshoot reportedly declares autonomy in SE Turkey

# Iraq regains some ground from IS in Iraq

# Is U.S. losing its focus with emphasis on Kobani?

# Covert video of daily life in IS-run Raqqa

# Iran re-arrests leading human rights lawyer

# The rise of Sufism as a political force in Iran

# "Ebola is a hoax," says Press TV

# Britain ends combat role in Afghanistan

# Pakistan: "A coup that wasn't"

# Polygamy and child wives

# French appeals court approves extradition of former Kazakhstan energy minister

# A photographic odyssey into the heart of Central Asia

Caucasus

# Life as a journalist "inside the Ebola bubble"

# The new 7-minute workout

# Tunisians voting