1. Reuters: U.S. nearing ABM Treaty withdrawal. 2. Reuters: Moscow opposes NATO expansion despite better ties. 3. San Francisco Chronicle: Bill Wallace, Terrorists shop in Russia for nuclear 'dirty bombs' 4. Luba Schwartzman: ORT Review. 5. Wall Street Journal: S. Frederick Starr, Russia’s Ominous Afghan Gambit. 6. Peter Lavelle: Untimely Thoughts - How much of Putin is a good thing for Russia? (re Constitution Day and presidential terms) 7. Izvestia: PRIMAKOV TO HEAD CHAMBER OF COMMERCE AND INDUSTRY. 8. Novaya gazeta: THE FOX IS BEST GUARDIAN OF THE HENHOUSE. (re securities market) 9. RFE/RL RUSSIAN POLITICAL WEEKLY: Laura Belin, WILL TV-6 GO OUT WITH A BANG OR A WHIMPER? 10. Izvestia: RUSSIANS DO NOT KNOW THEIR CONSTITUTION. (poll) 11. Moscow Times editorial: Constitution's Strength Is in Immutability. 12. Moscow Times: Oksana Yablokova, Constitution Turns 8, Public Still Ambivalent. 13. Nezavisimaya Gazeta: Lidiya Andrusenko, A PERSONALIZED CONSTITUTION. The Constitution may be amended in eight years. Time to change the Constitution - to suit a new president. 14. Time Europe: Yuri Zarakhovich, Russians Happy to Follow the Leader. Putin’s foreign and domestic policies are worlds apart.
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