[Second Issue of the Day]

1. Financial Times (UK): Russia's false promise. Robert Cottrell argues that long-term strategic interests and internal pressures may undermine Vladimir Putin's pledges of effective co-operation with the west and anti-terrorist coalition.
2. Moscow Times: Lyuba Pronina, Stats Reveal Healthy Economy.
3. Moscow Times: Boris Kagarlitsky, PR's Omnipotence Illusory.
4. Novye Izvestia: Sergei Guly, RUSSIA TRADES OLD FEARS FOR NEW ILLUSIONS. The Kremlin surrenders its positions in return for promises.
5. Profil: Alexander Ageev, GALLOPING AFTER GALLUP. A few words about public opinion monitoring in Russia.
6. Itar-Tass: Russian general expects US response to closure of Cuban centre.
7. Los Angeles Times: James Gerstenzang, Bush, Putin to Tackle Arms Control at Upcoming Texas Summit.
8. Reuters: Alaskans fear closure of Bering Strait travel.
9. Peter Lavelle: Untimely Thoughts - Form over content and its dangers (re the acid test of the new alliance remains Russia's reform project).
10. Wall Street Journal editorial: A Bush-Putin Deal.
11. villagevoice.com: Geoffrey Gray, VP Eyed Oil in Caspian Region. Dick Cheney's Pipe Dream.
12. The Guardian (UK): George Monbioit, America's pipe dream: A pro-western regime in Kabul should give the US an Afghan route for Caspian oil.

 
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