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CDI Russia Weekly Home Edited by David Johnson
CDI Russia Weekly #263 ~ Contents 27 June 2003 Simple Text - Entire Issue

Blair-Putin Summit,
Iraq, Energy
1 Putin, Blair bury the hatchet over Iraq in state visit, ink huge energy deal AFP
Blair-Putin Summit, Putin on UN 2 Russia's Putin praises UN role, says ideological division in the world over BBC Monitoring
Blair-Putin Summit, Chechnya 3 Trade provides the circumstance for pomp. Putin on state visit while Russian war continues in Chechnya. The Guardian (UK)
Jonathan Steele
Blair-Putin Summit 4 Putin Has Arrived, Your Majesty! Elizabeth II Introduces Her Prime Minister to the Russian President. Rossiyskaya Gazeta
Vladislav Vorobyev
Putin Problems 5 Triumphant Putin has problems at home The Electronic Telegraph (UK)
Julius Strauss
Iran, North Korea 6 Kremlin aide reiterates Russia's stance on Iran, North Korea ITAR-TASS
North Korea 7 Russia's lost Korean opportunity Asia Times
Sergei Blagov
Population 8 Russia: Statistics Register Rise In Births, But Overall Demographic Picture Remains Grim RFE/RL
Jeremy Bransten
Arms Exports 9 Russia's armsmakers operating on borrowed time. An expected slowdown in sales to China and India will slice into Russian exports. Christian Science Monitor
Fred Weir
Amb. Vershbow, U.S.-Russian Relations 10 US Gives Advice to Its Strategic Partner. (US Ambassador to Russia Alexander Vershbow) Rosbalt
World War II 11 The Great Patriotic War Today and Yesterday Moscow Times
Zaira Abdullaeva
U.S.-Russian Hotline 12 HOTLINE: 40 YEARS OF BUILDING UP TRUST RIA Novosti
Missile Defense Cooperation 13 TO MAKE THINGS INTERESTING. Russia-US cooperation on missile defense is difficult, but possible. Izvestia
Pavel Podvig
Military Reform, Yabloko 14 STAGNATION AND PROFANATION. Yabloko lashes out at military reform plans. Vremya Novostei
Natalia Rozhkova

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