1.	RFE/RL Francesca Mereu	Muscovites Enjoy May Day Holiday, Don't Miss Soviet Celebrations.
2.	Moscow Times Vladimir Ryzhkov	Russia's Festive Postmodernism
3.	Los Angeles Times John Daniszewski	Communists Play Second Fiddle. Trends: They're still Russia's largest political party, but a May Day rally shows they're no longer the biggest draw. Putin is in charge.
4.	Jamestown Foundation Monitor	MOSCOW AND WASHINGTON CLAIM PROGRESS IN ARMS TALKS
5.	AFP	US adopts 'the more, the better' formula for NATO enlargement
6.	Interfax	Russian naval base in Vietnam's Cam Ranh to close on May 4
7.	Institute for War & Peace Reporting Sanobar Shermatova	MOSCOW SKINHEADS TARGET SOUTHERNERS. Suspicions are growing that attacks by groups of Moscow skinheads on Caucasian traders are being carefully orchestrated.
8.	Voice of America Rebecca Santana	An Unlikely Tourist Site: A Soviet-Era Gulag
9.	Rossiyskaya Gazeta	Russian Security Council Official Interviewed on Eve of Terrorism Session
10.	Far Eastern Economic Review Ahmed Rashid	WITH THE U.S. AS AN ALLY, DICTATORS GET TOUGHER. AN ACCOUNT OF REPRESSION IN CENTRAL ASIA THIS YEAR.
11.	Foreign Policy in Focus Armen Georgian	U.S. Eyes Caspian Oil in "War On Terror"
12.	pravda.ru	FORMER SOVIET REPUBLICS TO BE USED IN OFFENSIVE AGAINST IRAQ
13.	Le Monde	French Editorial Deplores UN Human Rights Commission's 'Hypocrisy' Over Chechnya
14.	The Russia Journal Alexander Golts	General Staff critical of paratroops