The Rundown -- January 9

# New York Times op-ed by Joshua Kucera on events at RFE/RL's Baku bureau; Azerbaijan rejects criticism in Bloomberg

# Mashable cites and re-creates RFE/RL infographic on foreign fighters in Iraq and Syria

# Business Insider cites RFE/RL on dwindling migrant workforce

Paris attacks

# Russia to deny drivers licenses to transgender people

# Merkel says Russia sanctions must stay until all tenets of Minsk agreement met

# Latvia says Russia has sent "some signals" it is more willing to engage

# "Why Russia’s Evangelicals Thank God for Putin" - Mark Elliot, Christianity Today

# Meet Russia's 369 Kremlin-registered bloggers

# EU proposes $2 billion in financial support for Ukraine; but it's unlikely to be enough

# Bershidsky: Soros's terrible plan

# Ukraine on the verge of "humanitarian catastrophe"

# What U.S. airstrikes have hit in one graphic

# Assad has killed far more people than IS

# Iran-backed militias are getting U.S. weapons

# The U.S. may leverage cyber-weapons in nuclear talks

# "Protecting the Gains in Afghanistan" - Candace Karp and Michael O'Hanlon, Wall Street Journal

# "Afghanistan: Unaccomplished Mission, Uncertain Future" - Pir-Mohammad Mollazehi, Iran Review

# Afghanistan and Pakistan display rare cooperation in hunt for Pakistani Taliban leader

# New York Times makes up new Central Asian country

# New drug that doesn't encounter bacterial resistance