The Rundown -- April 11

# "USA Today" interviews Ivan Beliaev and Ildar Gabidullin

# Al Monitor cites Carl Schreck's story on on Seymor Hersh Syria claims

# Read Lyubov Chizhova and Farangis Najibullah in "The Atlantic" on how Russian schools are teaching Crimea

# U.S. says tougher sanctions may be coming

# Putin's letter to Europe

# Dmitry Kiselyov compares his situation to the Dreyfus affair

# UN hints at rigged Crimea vote

# "Russia is an Arsonist Pretending to be a Fire Safety Instructor" - Michael Weiss, Foreign Policy

# "Putin's War Against Russia's Last Independent TV Channel" - Tikhon Dzyadko, "The Guardian"

# "Playing to Putin's End Game" - Nicholas Burns, "Boston Globe"

# CPJ demands Ukraine allow Russian journalists into the country

# HRW criticizes new lustration law

# Burger King reportedly moving into Crimea

# Russia and the Great Patriotic War in Donetsk

# "Ukraine’s Rust Belt Faces Ruin as Putin Threatens Imports" - Bloomberg

# Infographic: Ukraine separatist movements

# "NATO Must Avoid New Cold War Borders" - Judy Dempsey, Carnegie

# "Germany's New Ostpolitik" - Jakob Mischke and Andreas Umland, "Foreign Affairs"

# Germany and the romanticization of Russia

# Pic: Jobbik at PACE: "Crimea legally belongs to Russia! Transcarpathia legally belongs to Hungary!"

# The rising price of dowries in Iran

# Russia and U.S. disagree over oil deal with Iran

# Israel's new satellite is likely meant to keep watch over Iran

# Khamenei gets Twitteratti treatment

# Iraq scrambles to fight polio surge

# Iraq signs preliminary deal for Czech planes

# Iraq gets first Pizza Hut

# "The irreversible journey" of Afghanistan's women

# The weakening of the "tribal factor" in Kandahar

# Pakistan rejects claim that Baluch group carried out market attack

# On Pakistan's YouTube ban