The Rundown -- October 31

# CPJ cites RFE/RL Azerbaijani Service on another journalist arrest

Russia

# Ukraine and Russia reach gas agreement

# Some 64 supporters of "dictator laws" return to parliament; and Moscow not happy with negative disposition toward them

# "After Ukraine Vote, a New Test: Burying a Legacy of Dysfunctional Politics" - David Herszenhorn, "New York Times"

# "Eastern Ukraine's Fake State is About to Elect a Fake Prime Minister" - Lily Hyde, Foreign Policy

# Is the U.S-Turkey alliance crumbling?

# IS destroys important 11th century shrine

# Survivors describe massacre of 600 prisoners in Mosul

# "The Revolution is Over" - "Economist"

# Does Israeli Iran policy threaten the "special relationship" with the U.S.?

# The recent uptick in hostility towards women in Iran could be directed at Rohani

# Afghanistan "going off the rails" as U.S. withdraws

# Pakistan province rewrites text books to satisfy Islamic conservatives

# "Behind India's Pakistan Quandary" - Sharat Sabharwal, The Hindu

# Exotic zoos -- the new status symbol for Armenia's elite

# Turkmenistan reportedly suffering gas shortages

# A defense of the singular "they"