1. Reuters: Russia's Putin worried over oil price fall. 2. Reuters: Russia sees basis of new strategic ties with U.S. 3. Vek: THE RUSSIAN ELITE FEARS INTEGRATION WITH THE WEST. 4. Versty: BIFURCATION. (poll) 5. Moscow Times: Anna Raff, Harvard Offers a Dose of Reality. 6. The Electronic Telegraph (UK): George Trefgarne, Russian oil changing the Opec game. 7. Drudge Report: BOOK: BUSH AND PUTIN DISCUSS JESUS CROSS. 8. Wall Street Journal: Jeanne Cummings, Bush Seeks to Lift Cold War Sanction As U.S.-Russia Relations Warm Up. 9. Reuters: Fighting rages in Chechnya despite looming talks. 10. Versiya: Petr Pryanishnikov, Vladimir Kuznetsov (Green Cross Russia), WELCOME, OR: ACCESS RESTRICTED TO AUTHORIZED PERSONNEL. Security shortfalls at Russia's nuclear facilities. 11. Moscow Times: Chubais Leaps to the Defense of Railways Minister. 12. BBC Monitoring: Russia TV has more details of failed plot to kill Putin. 13. Vek: YEVGENY PRIMAKOV COMMENTS ON CHECHEN COUNTER-TERRORIST OPERATION. (and other subjects) 14. Washington Post: William Raspberry, When Did the Target Become the Taliban? 15. The Globe and Mail (Canada): Geoffrey York, A coalition of threats and extortion. The Northern Alliance governs with intimidation veiled by bureaucracy.
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