1.	AFP	Putin gambles on support for US action in Russia's back yard
2.	Moscow Times Pavel Felgenhauer	Sowing Seeds of Acrimony?
3.	Nezavisimaya Gazeta	AMERICANS HAVEN'T COME TO STAY, BUT MOSCOW SHOULDN'T LET THEM JUST BOMB SITES AND LEAVE. (Interview with Alexei ARBATOV)
4.	RFE/RL Security Watch	KREMLIN ADVISER EXPLAINS PUTIN'S DECISION TO ALLY WITH WEST and PRO-KREMLIN INTELLECTUALS PROVIDE A BROADER RATIONALE
5.	RFE/RL Francesca Mereu	Federation Council Passes Historic Land Code
6.	Asia Times Sergei Blagov	Putin's Chechen spin has rights groups in a whirl
7.	BBC Monitoring	TV says USA, Russia playing geostrategic game in Afghanistan, Central Asia.
8.	AFP	Ukraine's Kuchma rejects resignation as missile view of downing firms
9.	strana.ru	Relations between Ukraine and Russia Are Going through the Most Crucial Trial. Russian press on TU-154 disaster.
10.	The Central Asia- Caucasus Analyst Stephen Blank	TOWARDS GEOSTRATEGIC REALIGNMENT IN CENTRAL ASIA
11.	Nezavisimaya Gazeta Leonid Ivashov	A GLOBAL PROVOCATION. Why the war against terrorism may not be what it seems.
12.	BBC Monitoring	Russian daily says Taleban a threat to Pakistan, Uzbekistan