The Rundown -- April 22

# Bond rally at hint of optimism about debt restructuring

# Stephen Sestanovich says on Ukraine Putin is now "more bored than bellicose"

# Peter Pomerantsev: "One of the problems with Ukraine is that no one really knows where it is"

# Russian website allows businesses, including Burger King, to advertise on women's breasts

# Gallup poll shows Russia receives lowest approval in the world, U.S. highest

# "Russian Workers Take Aim at Putin as Economy Exacts Its Toll" - Andrew Kramer, New York Times

# "How Putin Is Disrupting the Atlantic Alliance" - Ivan Krastev and Mark Leonard, Foreign Affairs

# Lukashenka's "soft Belarusization"

# Moldova trying to build up its army

# Saudis end air campaign in Yemen

# Guardian reports IS leader al-Baghdadi "seriously wounded in air strike"; Pentagon skeptical

# "Secret Files Reveal the Structure of Islamic State" - Christoph Reuter, Spiegel

# Is IS propaganda all it's cracked up to be?

# The secret replica of Iran's nuclear facilities, in the forests of Tennessee

# Obama administration knew "for years" about Iran's short nuclear breakout time

# Iran wants OPEC prepared for it

# New doubt to claims of IS attack in Afghanistan

# Afghanistan and Iran getting cozier

# Transparency law opening up Pakistan

# "Pakistan, the Saudis’ Indispensable Nuclear Partner" - Pervez Hoodbhoy, New York Times

# Turkey sends condolences on mass killing anniversary, but rejects genocide term

# "The Word Obama Can’t Bring Himself to Say" - Adam Lerner, Politico

# Macedonia says Kosovo gunmen took police hostage and called for an Albanian state

# U.S. official says Kosovo should try it's own rebels to avoid Serbia or Russia

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