The Rundown -- March 18

# Today's Zeman cites RFE/RL interview with German-Turkish leader calling on Ankara to recognize "genocide"

# Russia rules out handing back Crimea, expands war games

# Looming recession unsettling once booming city of Kaluga

# "Has the Russian System’s Agony Begun?" - Lilia Shevtsova, American Interest

# Why an American, and the the best woman basketball player in the world, is playing in Russia

# Ukraine approve special status law, but separatist leaders say it doesn't meet Minsk demands

# Ukraine scrambles to avoid new unrest after child killed by military vehicle

# Three soldiers killed in eastern Ukraine fighting

# Crisis taking toll on Ukraine's oligarchs (Akhmetov has lost as much as $5.8 billion)

# Iraq's Tikrit offensive stalled by IS bombs

# American basketball players gain fans in Iraqi league

# IS vandalizing historic church in Mosul

# IS' "long con" in Syria

# Optimism and caution from nuclear negotiators as deadline nears

# UN says Iran oppression of rights, women worse under Rohani

# "Iran, Inequality, and the Battle of American Norms" - Adam Gopnik, New Yorker

Afghanistan/Pakistan

# Azerbaijan sentences opposition activist to six years in jail

# On of the greatest AP corrections ever