The Rundown -- May 15

# On trying to report a rape in Russia

# Russia's building a rather slow computer chip of its own

# The Kremlin may benefit from Poland's fight for coal

# For Russians, the "new cold war" has already started

# In April, "20 feet" came between Russia and War with NATO (according to New York Review of Books)

# Ukraine accuses Facebook of pro-Russia bias

# Ukraine turning to Romania for help in battle against hacking

# "Defanging the Ukrainian Oligarchs" - Balazs Jarabik, Carnegie

# Moldova expels Romanian ahead of pro-unification rally

# IS releases audio message purported to be from Baghdadi

# Senior Iranian official calls Saudi King Salman a traitor to Islam

# Sana'a diary

# "12 Years Later, a Mystery of Chemical Exposure in Iraq Clears Slightly" - C.J. Chivers, New York Times

# As Ghani takes on corruption, Afghans increasingly nostalgic about Karzai

# US watchdog: Afghanistan's future threatened by bad intelligence

# Paula Kantor and the "inherent racism of viewing all foreigners as ‘invaders’"

# Pakistan has a lot riding on Zimbabwe cricket tour, but there's high confusion over security

# How to "democratize Pakistan's youth"

# Serbia rehabilitates convicted Nazi collaborator

# What's killing Kazakhstan's antelope?

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