Moscow, Putin's Past, Feifer/ Education, ORT Review, Chechnya Plan, Keeping/ Corruption, Siberian Wasteland, Tourists, Soviet Debt Settlement, WTO, Kyoto, Governors/ Privatization Record

August 31, 2002: #6415

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1. RIA Novosti: MOSCOW'S CHIEF ARCHEOLOGIST THINKS MOSCOW IS OLDER THAN IS GENERALLY BELIEVED.
2. RFE/RL NewsLine: PUTIN TRIED TO HIDE HIS KGB CONNECTION...AND INITIALLY SYMPATHIZED WITH 1991 COUP.
3. AP: Putin Pondered Life After Leaving KGB.
4. RFE/RL: Gregory Feifer, Russia: Class Struggles -- Education Improving Despite Obstacles.
5. Luba Schwartzman: ORT Review.
6. Interfax: Several Russian politicians in touch with Maskhadov's representatives.
7. Institute for War & Peace Reporting CAUCASUS REPORTING SERVICE: Sanobar Shermatova, CHECHEN PLAN HAMMERED OUT.
8. The Guardian (UK): Nick Paton Walsh, Chechen villagers flee new bloodshed.
9. Janet Keeping: Corruption in educational institutions.
10. BBC Monitoring: RUSSIAN TV PREDICTS GRIM FUTURE FOR SIBERIAN WASTELAND.
11. The Times (UK): Mark Franchetti, Godfathers of Russia turn into film stars.
12. The Times (UK): From Russia with cash. Britain is a hit with big-spending Russians, says Tom Chesshyre.
13. pravda.ru: LONG LIVE CHUBAIS’ POLICY! The West doubts that Russia is honest with the Soviet debt settlement.
14. pravda.ru: SYNDROME OF NATURAL ADVANTAGES. Russia will lose nothing if it doesn’t join the WTO.
15. UPI: Russia throws a curve on Kyoto accord.
16. BBC Monitoring: Russian governors slam cabinet on privatization record.

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