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CDI Russia Weekly Home Edited by David Johnson
CDI Russia Weekly #258 ~ Contents 23 May 2003 Simple Text - Entire Issue

Iraq, UN Vote 1 U.N. Vote Ends Russian Oil-For-Food Plan AP
St. Petersburg Tricentennial 2 Popular discontent sours St. Petersburg's big bash. Next week, Russia's 'Venice of the North' begins celebrating its tricentennial Christian Science Monitor
Fred Weir
Putin Address to Parliament 3 HOW MUCH CHANGE DOES PUTIN SEEK? RFE/RL Newsline
Peter Lavelle
Military Reform 4 The Military Reform Card Moscow Times
Pavel Felgenhauer
Putin & U.S. 5 Russia ready to work with US on all issues: Putin AFP
Bush & Russia 6 George W. Bush Determined to Strengthen Relations with Russia pravda.ru
Iraq 7 A JACKAL BESIDE THE AMERICAN LION. An interview with Nixon Center President Dimitri K. Simes. Nezavisimaya Gazeta
Missile Defense Cooperation, S. Ivanov in Washington 8 COURTESY LESSONS. New arms: trust should be mutual. US-Russia defense cooperation: moving beyond the war in Iraq. Rossiiskaya Gazeta
Vladimir Bogdanov
Military Exercises 9 A strong show of Russian arms Asia Times
Sergei Blagov
Russian Mafia in U.S. 10 Russian Scam without Borders. The interests of the Russian mafia in the U.S. range from the dating industry to ATM cards. Moscow News
Ilya Baranikas
Russian Nuclear Materials 11 US frets at security of Russian radioactive matter Reuters
Nuclear Dangers 12 On the RAND Report: Beyond the Nuclear Shadow Former Senator Sam Nunn
Nuclear Dangers 13 Act Now to Save G-8 Summit Carnegie Non-Proliferation Project
Chechnya Amnesty 14 Critics Say Offer Of Chechen Amnesty Is Meaningless RFE/RL
Jeremy Bransten

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