Joshua Keating: Can Putin turn the ISIS mess to Russia’s advantage?
Sputnik News, the slick new-media rebranding of the venerable Russian news wire RIA-Novosti, reports that Russia has called on the UN Security Council to ban purchases of oil from terrorist-controlled regions, including the territory held by ISIS. This isn't a surprising position, but it does draw some attention to Russia's interesting outsider role in the international anti-ISIS effort.