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JRL #6511

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1. AP: Tensions rise as Moscow hostage crisis grinds on with no resolution in sight.
2. AP: Al-Jazeera Airs Chechen Videotape.
3. Christian Science Monitor: Fred Weir, Hostage crisis refuels Chechnya debate. The theater standoff may move Russia closer to a US style policy on terrorism.
4. AP: Raid Illustrates Chechen Desperation.
5. RFE/RL Russian Political Weekly: WARS END WITH NEGOTIATIONS (views of Yelena Bonner) and WHO IS MOVSAR BARAEV? by Andrei Babitsky)
6. BBC Monitoring: Analyst: hostage crisis confirms Russia is losing war in Chechnya. (Sergei Karaganov)
7. The Spectator (UK): Getting away with murder. The Russian bombings of 1999 were blamed on the Chechens, but Jeremy Putley believes they were planted by the secret police.
8. US Congress: Russian Democracy Act of 2002.
9. US Department of State: Transcript: U.S. Ambassador Optimistic about Russia's Economy.

 
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