1.	CDI's Weekly Defense Monitor Ben Friedman	The Bush-Putin Nuclear Agreement: Rhetoric vs. Reality
2.	Jamestown Foundation RUSSIA'S WEEK	Foreign policy: westward ho?
3.	Moscow Times Pavel Felgenhauer	Mayhem Minces Moderates.(re Middle East)
4.	BBC Monitoring	Russia to transfer Cam Ranh navy base to Vietnam by 6 May
5.	The Guardian (UK) Ian Traynor	Russia relaxes opposition to Nato. The Kremlin's objections to Nato's predatory plans have fallen silent just as the western alliance is poised for its biggest expansion to date.
6.	strana.ru	U.S. Business Chief Urges Cautious Marks for Russian Corporate Conduct
7.	RFE/RL Jeremy Bransten	Putin Calls For Growth, Bolder Economic Vision
8.	San Francisco Chronicle Anna Badkhen	Chechnya breeds discontent in Russian troops. Elite forces aren't returning for extra tours of duty there.
9.	Baltimore Sun editorial	Improv in Kiev
10.	Moskovskii Komsomolets Alexander Kornoshchenko	The Russian army will soon have no weapons left
11.	The Jamestown Foundation PRISM Aleksandr Buzgalin	RUSSIA AND AMERICA: A NEW TWIST IN THE CONFRONTATION?