The Rundown -- January 28

# In the Guardian, Murad Gassanly suggests a less hostile approach in dealing with Azerbaijan to encourage release prisoners like Khadija Ismayilova

# Pre-trial detention of Ismayilova covered by Reuters; Soros presses Azerbaijan to loosen crackdown

# Washington Post cites Yelena Polyakovskaya's interview with an Auschwitz liberator

# Yahoo News covers interview by RFE/RL's Radio Farda of woman who survived Auschwitz because of a clerical error

# Buzzfeed links RFE/RL feature about Russia-Ukraine/Poland Auschwitz fight

# New Greek PM denounces EU Council statement blaming Russia for violence in eastern Ukraine; new Greek FM pictured with Dugin; defense chief with Pushkov in January

# EU likely to consider further sanctions at a summit next month

# Russian weight loss club proposes Siege of Leningrad diet

# The boring life of a Russian spy in the United States

# "Remember Russia? It’s Still Doomed" - Matt O'Brien, Washington Post

# Separatists make more advances in Donetsk suburbs

# "Save the New Ukraine" - Bernard-Henri Levy and George Soros, New York Times

# "Now Is The Time to Provide Lethal Military Aid to Ukraine" - Ivo Dadler, Financial Times

# Video: Vice News on the civilians caught in between the fighting

# Canada's troops keep getting into firefights in Iraq

# Map: How the flow of foreign fighters to Iraq and Syria has surged since October

# Kurdish protectors vow to keep their 'Jerusalem'

# "Our Man in Damascus" - Wall Street Journal

# Menendez urges delay in his Iran sanctions legislation

# Iran says it warned Israel about "revenge" through U.S. diplomatic channels

# "The Netanyahu Disaster" - Jeffrey Goldberg, Atlantic

# Falling oil prices draining Rohani's political capital

# Ahmadis no longer finding refuge in Sri Lanka

# What Pakistan makes of the Obama-Modi chemistry

# OSCE calls on Armenia and Azerbaijan to cease hostilities

# Black cars reportedly banned by customs officials in Turkmenistan

# Kazakhstan strains reserves to smooth way for gradual devaluation

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