[Second Issue of the Day]

1. AFP: Schism opens door to Islamic extremists.
2. Boston Globe: David Filipov, In Uzbekistan, new friend of US, brutal rule suppresses Muslims.
3. Vremya MN: Leonid Radzikhovsky, POLICING ASIA. CIS countries can no longer complain to Uncle Sam about Russia.
4. AP: Old Soviet Union Produced Anthrax.
5. Moscow Times: Rudiger Ahrend, Better Low Than High. (re oil)
6. Reuters: Russian president calls WTO entry a key priority.
7. Kommersant: Dmitry Kamyshev, FORMER YABLOKO MEMBERS ASHAMED FOR THE PARTY. Yabloko members about to quit the party explain their motives.
8. Peter Lavelle: Untimely Thoughts - Illusory loyalty, disposable democracy (re the pro-Kremlin Duma majority in the making).
9. Financial Times (UK) editorial: Georgia burning.
10. The Guardian/London Review of Books: Stephen Kotkin, Playgrounds and graveyards: the great powers in Afghanistan and beyond.

 
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