1.	RFE/RL Jeremy Bransten	Putin Praises Economic Progress But Demands More
2.	AP	Putin Confirms Military Reforms Needed
3.	AFP	Rebels kill 18 pro-Russians in Chechnya, Putin says war is over
4.	Christian Science Monitor Fred Weir	Russia's population decline spells trouble
5.	Moscow Times Pavel Felgenhauer	Weighing the Alternatives. (re alternative service)
6.	Rossiiskie Vesti Artem Ulunyan	RUSSIA WANTS TO WORK WITH NATO, BUT IN ITS OWN WAY
7.	Izvestiya	Izvestiya Sees '20' Format as Russia's 'Reward' for Not Opposing NATO Expansion
8.	stratfor.com	CIA Will Continue Search for New Russian Technologies
9.	Carnegie Endowment for International Peace John Wolfsthal	Russian Compliance
10.	Vedomosti Alexei Nikolsky	DEFENSE SECTOR HAS EXHAUSTED ITS RESOURCES
11.	Asia Times Hooman Peimani	Caspian Sea divide no closer to closure
12.	Financial Times (UK) Andrew Jack	A need to march with the times. (re military reform)
13.	RFE/RL Francesca Mereu	Russia/U.S.: Analysts Discuss Arms Cuts, Strategic Relations
14.	Nezavisimaya Gazeta Konstantin Voronov	RAPPROCHEMENT BETWEEN RUSSIA AND THE WEST: ANOTHER FLIRTATION OR LONG-TERM ALLIANCE?