The Rundown -- March 2

# Tweets from Tom Balmforth and me used in Mashable, Breitbart reports on Nemtsov march in Moscow

# ViceNews cites RFE/RL reporting on Savchenko hunger strike

# Newsweek cites Arslan Saidov and Claire Bigg's report on Ukraine student video address to Russians

# Washington Post editorial highlights Azerbaijan's pressure on RFE/RL

# "Nemtsov’s Murder and Three Other Deaths" - Mark Galeotti

# "The Russia That Died With Boris Nemtsov" - Leonid Bershidsky, Bloomberg

# "Murder, Even in Russia, is Always a Shock" - Miriam Elder, Buzzfeed

# "After Boris Nemtsov’s Assassination, ‘There Are No Longer Any Limits’" - Julia Ioffe, New York Times

# Tens of thousands participate in somber Moscow march; photos

# Moscow floats lots of conspiracy theories

# Ukrainian lawmaker detained during march

# What Russia's "patriotic bloggers" have to say

# Activists want to save two blind, alcoholic bears held for 20 years in a garbage-strewn cage in Sochi

# Ukrainian photographer killed in fighting

# Ukraine unofficially has 272 percent inflation

# "Ukraine's New U.S.-Born Finance Chief Enduring Baptism by Fire" - James Ellingworth, AP

# Iraqi state TV says operation to free Tikrit has begun

# Iraq's national museum opens after 12 years

# Iraq PM offers ultimatum for Sunni tribal fighters to abandon IS

# For Syrian Armenians, exodus evokes flight from a century ago

# "Danger Ahead for Obama on Iran" - Jeffrey Goldberg, Atlantic

# Iran says it's ready to open up to internet firms "if they accept our cultural rules"

# Iran offers to protect Iraq artifacts

Afghanistan/Pakistan

# Tajikistan votes amid pressure on opposition

# U.S. may deport as many as 150 Bosnians expected in war crimes