1. Reuters: Russia ends Cold War chapter by quitting Cuban spy base. 2. BBC Monitoring: Putin announces withdrawal from Cuban and Vietnamese bases. 3. BBC Monitoring: Russian defence capability said unaffected by closure of bases abroad. 4. BBC Monitoring: USA should reciprocate for closure of Russia's foreign bases, says analyst. 5. Luba Schwartzman: ORT Review. 6. Moscow Times editorial: No Wonder The Mood Is So Upbeat. (re economy) 7. The Independent (UK): Steve Crawshaw, Chechnya doctor accuses West of ignoring brutality. 8. AFP: US to press Russia on Chechnya in Shanghai talks: Powell. 9. The Nation: Stephen Cohen, 2nd Chance With Russia. 10. BBC Monitoring: Businessman Kokh keen to buy Gazprom's media empire. 11. Christian Science Monitor: Fred Weir, From the cold war, lessons in combating anthrax. Russia offers stockpiles of vaccine and bioweapons research to the US. 12. Carnegie: Anatol Lieven, Fighting Terrorism: Lessons from the Cold War. 13. strana.ru: Sergei Markov, "The Enlargement of Agencies is Politics" A fundamental administrative reform will be its logical continuation. 14. Baltimore Sun: S. Frederick Starr, Afghan Northern Alliance makes a dangerous friend. 15. Reuters: Breakthroughs unlikely at Shanghai Bush-Putin talks.
Back to the Top • JRL Home • CDI Russia Weekly • Iraq War: RW 2003 • CDI Home
