The Rundown -- May 14

Russia
# Turkey take stronger line against Moscow, saying "nothing justifies" actions in Ukraine and Georgia

# Swedes trolling Russia with gay singing sailor

# More evidence that Russian Buk brought down MH17

# "Kerry's Pointless Diplomacy in Russia" - Leon Aron, CNN

# "Russia Was Right: Shale in Europe Has Proved a Dud" - Ladka Mortkowitz Bauerova, Bloomberg

# Poroshenko asks Mark Zuckerberg to create a Facebook office in Ukraine to handle Russian trolls

# Ukraine says it foiled a Russian plot to create breakaway state in southwestern Ukraine

# The rise and fall of E. Ukraine's all-Pagan battalion

# The bones in the forests of Western Ukraine stir political passions today

# IS deputy leader said to be killed in airstrike (on the other hand, maybe not)

# Iran warns U.S. against stopping Yemen-bound aid ship

# The journey from astrophysics student to IS fighter

# Militants storm Kabul guesthouse popular among foreigners

# Afghanistan and Pakistan pledge to fight terrorism together

# Can Afghanistan take on the Taliban and IS on its own?

# Gunmen kill 45 in attack on Shi'ite minority in Pakistan

# Husain Haqqani on what Pakistan knew during bin Laden raid

# One decade after Andijan massacre, West "turns a blind eye" to rights abuses

# "Tajikistan's Russian Dream" - Joe Schottenfeld, Foreign Affairs

Caucasus
# Ten members of congress took trip secretly funded by Azerbaijani government

# NATO and EU call for "transparent investigation" of Macedonia unrest

# Macedonia's lipstick protester remained calm amid the chaos

Of Interest