YUKOS Oil Investigation & Politics	1	Critics Call Kremlin's Yukos Investigation Politically Motivated	RFE/RL Valentinas Mite
Kasyanov on Privatization	2	Privatization Process to Remain Unchanged, says Russian PM	Voice of America Lisa McAdams
Russian Orthodox Czar Memorial	3	Russian Orthodox church commemorates anniversary of tsar's death	AFP
U.S.-Russian Missile Defense	4	U.S.-Russia missile defense agreement possible - U.S. Ambassador	Interfax
Amb. Vershbow on Nuclear Arms Control	5	No need for new Russian-US nuclear arms cut treaties, says US envoy	Interfax
Nuclear Submarines	6	Russian navy captain disputes paper's claim that nuclear subs stopped for 1 year	ITAR-TASS
Nuclear Terrorism, Radiation Detectors	7	Less than half of Russia's customs posts have radiation detectors - US report	BBC Monitoring
North Korea Nuclear Program	8	Russia Expert Says North Korea Can Produce Plutonium Only in Small Quantities	ITAR-TASS
Chechnya War	9	Palestine or Worse. (re Chechnya)	Moscow Times Alexander Golts
Suicide Bombings	10	Caucasus Diary: Suicide -- or Staged -- Bombings? History suggests Chechens were not behind the recent Moscow bomb blasts.	Transitions Online Nabi Abdullaev
Iraq & Russian Military	11	Russia rules out troops for Iraq	The Hindu (India) Vladimir Radyuhin
U.S.-Russian Cooperation	12	PROSPECTS FOR RUSSIAN-US COOPERATION	Trud Sergei OZNOBISHCHEV
Russian Diplomacy, Middle East	13	Is Russia No Longer Needed in Middle?	Rosbalt
Military Budget	14	DEFENSE BUDGET SOLITAIRE. Defense spending to be raised by 12% in 2004.	Vremya Novostei Nikolai Poroskov
Military Reform	15	Roundtable Discusses Key Aspects of Russian Military Reform	Trud
Vershbow on Saddam Intelligence, Russian Iraq Embassy	16	Vershbow's Comments Raise Hackles In Moscow	RFE/RL Jeremy Bransten
Intelligence Chief Korabelnikov Interview	17	VALENTIN KORABELNIKOV: SMART AND WELL-TRAINED PEOPLE WORK WITH US. An interview with the chief of Russian military intelligence.	Izvestia
Defense Industry	18	THE DEFENSE INDUSTRY: A FALL AGAINST THE BACKGROUND OF SUCCESS. A virtual defeat for the defense sector - due to mismanagement.	Argumenty i Fakty

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