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1. Boston Globe: David Filipov, US troops help ex-Soviet state fight militants.
2. Los Angeles Times: Robyn Dixon, Nature of Threat in Georgia Gorge a Matter of Dispute. Caucasus: As U.S. prepares to train republic's forces in anti-terror tactics, some analysts question motives.
3. Izvestia: RUSSIANS LIKE GEORGIA BUT NOT THE POLICY OF ITS LEADERSHIP.(poll)
4. Nezavisimaya Gazeta: YAVLINSKY HAS NOT FOUND AN ALTERNATIVE TO HIMSELF.
5. Danish Radio: Vibeke Sperling's commentary on 1999 apartment bomb attacks.
6. Business Day (Johannesburg): John Helmer, HONEST CIPHER FOR CENTRAL BANK.
7. Moscow Times: Alexei Pankin, Press Dialogue With the U.S. Ambassador.
8. Moscow Times: Boris Kagarlitsky, Mironov's Glorious Gaffe.
9. Wall Street Journal: Guy Chazan, Russia Intends to Make Concessions On Some Issues to Gain WTO Entry.
10. Vedomosti: Tatiana Lysova & Aleksei Nikolsky, PUTIN'S RATING IS AN OBSTACLE...to Russia's rating in the long run. The West views political institutions in Russia as weak.
11. Novoe Vremya: Vladimir Shveitser, A NEW LOOK AT OLD VALUES. Social democrats rendezvousing with liberalism. The programs of Yabloko and the Russian Social Democratic Party.
12. The New Statesman (UK): Far from the Promised Land. Many Britons still see Israel as a Middle Eastern Hampstead, a land of liberal idealists. But the liberals are fleeing, and being replaced by Soviet "white trash". John Kampfner reports.

 
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