The Rundown -- November 3

# Latin Post cites RFE/RL's coverage of the unrecognized separatist vote in eastern Ukraine

# Read Malali Bashir in Foreign Policy on "the real first ladies of Afghanistan"

# "Putin’s Friend Profits in Purge of Schoolbooks" - Jo Becker and Steven Lee Myers, "New York Times"

# Indigenous Russians harassed by Moscow

# "Why Chinese-Russian Friendship Is Here To Stay" - Gilbert Rozman, "Foreign Affairs"

# African migrants in Russia describe "hell on earth"

# Separatist regions "vote" as Russian personnel and equipment reportedly roll into east again

# Elections, which Moscow recognized, likely to worsen tensions between Russia and the West

# "Ukraine's Last Chance" - Leonid Bershidsky, Bloomberg

# Residents of Brest, Belarus discover town is built on Jewish gravestones

# Erdogan's cemented power symbolized by $350 million palace

# Shi'ite militia implicated in Sunni mosque massacre

# Al-Qaeda revives its beef with IS

# Video: Alleged IS fighters discuss buying and selling Yazidi slave girls

# "Flying Blind in Iraq and Syria" - Thomas Friedman, "New York Times"

# Iran sentences woman to a year in prison for trying to attend a male volleyball game

# Iran defends its human rights record

# "Iran Poised to Choose Poverty Over Nuclear Disarmament" - Ray Takeyh, "Washington Post"

# "Uprooting Afghanistan's Poppies" - Bloomberg

# America's unfinished prison in Afghanistan -- "a filthy nightmare"

# Fanged dear spotted in Afghanistan for first time in 65 years

# Bomb kills at least 50 on Pakistan border crossing with India

# Daily Beast talks to the families in Georgia of IS militant leaders

# "What Does Russia Really Want With Abkhazia" - Sergei Markedonov, ODR

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