The Rundown -- November 6

# "Guardian" quotes RFE/RL Russian Service interview on death of actor and anti-Putin activist

# The Diplomat quotes RFE/RL Kyrgyz Service coverage of U.S. Ambassador's statement on Russia

# According to Hurriyet review of "A Mosque in Munich," RFE/RL tried to "exploit" minorities against Soviets

# Russian actor and Putin critic found dead in Moscow

# Russia says it will not attend 2016 nuclear security summit

# Finland warns of a new Cold War with Russia

# Preparations for renewed war begin in eastern Ukraine, as concerns about Mariupol grow

# Monkey Cage analysis shows little fraud in Ukrainian election

# "Ukraine Has Done Nothing to Tackle Corruption" - Mohammad Zahoor, "Financial Times"

# Luhansk separatists will not let Ukrainians collect bodies of war dead

# What life is like for Ukrainian prisoners of war

# Bikini photo of judge sparks "outrage" in Moldova

# Speed dating in Belarusian

# IS Iraq wave "turning into a ripple;" but still making gains in northern Iraq

# Why has IS broken its pattern with Kassig?

# Foreign Policy asks if Erdogan has made a democratic future in Turkey possible by breaking power of military

# The lucrative business of mourning in Iran

# Is Soleimani running the Iraq ground war?

# New Congress may make nuclear deal more difficult for Obama

# "Who Cares about an Iranian Nuclear Breakout? Beware of an Atomic “Sneak-out”" - James Acton, Carnegie

# Left to fight alone, Afghanistan battles to save wounded

# US army 'loses' military equipment worth $420 million in Afghanistan

# How IS leader Baghdadi tried to recruit Al-Qaeda's al-Zawahiri

# "Times of India" says an army insider may have been the Wagah border suicide bomber

# Political shakeup in Georgia as FM quits

# "Georgia’s Coalition on the Rocks?" - Thomas de Waal, Carnegie

# Ivanka Trump in Baku, Azherbaijan (sic)

# Sharon Stone at premier for hit Kyrgyzstan film

# Kosovo in "worst political crisis" since independence

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