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1. Interfax: Putin gives televised address.
2. The Sunday Times (UK): Dream of martyrdom. Face to face with the terror
chief. Mark Franchetti got inside the besieged theatre for an exclusive
interview with Movsar Barayev, leader of the terrorists, who told him why
they were on a suicide mission.
3. BBC Monitoring: Police across Russia clamp down on suspects from North
Caucasus.
4. Los Angeles Times: Robyn Dixon, A Victory for Putin, If Toll Stays Put.
The number of hostage deaths is low enough in comparison with survivors that
officials can portray the rescue operation as a success.
5. The Sunday Times (UK) editorial: Russia’s blood feud.
6. The Observer (UK) editorial: Putin should not ape Bush. Chechnya needs
a careful response.
7. Reuters: Secrecy surrounds gas in Moscow siege as toll rises.
8. UPI: Report: Nerve gas killed Russian hostages.
9. The Electronic Telegraph (UK): Christina Lamb and Ben Aris, Russians
probe al-Qa'eda link as Moscow siege ends with 150 dead.
10. Moscow Times: Victoria Lavrentieva, Chechnya Now an Issue for Investors.
11. The Sunday Times (UK): The war without end. A people born to carry on
fighting. The Moscow siege has laid bare the costly futility of Russian
repression in Chechnya, writes historian Robert Service.
12. The Observer (UK): Torture and rape stalk the streets of Chechnya.
Polish writer Krystyna Kurczab-Redlich visited the region where she witnessed
the brutal work done by Russia's soldiers in their fight against separatists.
13. The Observer (UK): How we survived mafia and banking meltdown.
Frank Kane meets the head of Alfa bank, Peter Arven.
14. The Observer (UK): Frank Kane, Is Putin strong enough to carry his
revolution? A resurgent Russia is put to the test by conflict at home,
in Iraq and Chechnya.
15. In the National Interest: Christopher Marsh, Talking Behind their
Back: Chinese Thoughts on their Coming Collapse. (re fate of USSR)]
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