1. Novoe Vremya: OUR DAILY BREAD. (poll) 2. Finansovaya Rossiya: SMALL BUSINESS IS BETTER THAN BIG BUSINESS. 3. UPI: Uzbek Muslims call for bombing halt. 4. Chicago Tribune: Georgi M. Derluguian, A Soviet general and nation building. (re Ruslan Aushev and Ingushetia) 5. Christian Science Monitor: Fred Weir, Putin sells foreign investors on Russian economic rebound. But overdependence on oil income could shake the recovery, say analysts at the World Economic Forum. 6. Vek: Andrei Ryabov, PUTIN PULLS AWAY FROM THE ELITE. Likely consequences of Putin's latest initiatives in Cuba and Vietnam. 7. Moscow Times: Leonard Rolfes Jr., Land Code: Next Steps. 8. Trud: Vyacheslav Nikonov, PARTNERSHIP OR RENUNCIATION? Russia risks assuming the whole burden of the operation in Afghanistan. 9. AP: Tajikistan Struggles for Stability. 10. UPI: Martin Sieff, Hu and Putin: Birds of a Feather. 11. Reuters: McDonald's rules Russian fast food market. 12. AP: Russian filmmaker Grigory Chukhrai dead at 80. 13. AP: Data: Soviets Confounded by Afghans.
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