Regions, Putin Reform ~ Military Strength ~ Iraq ~ Labor, AFL-CIO Deportation ~ Chechnya, Rebel Website ~ Chechnya, Financial Reform, IMF Report ~ 2002 ~ Economic Review ~ NATO Expansion ~ Oil, OPEC ~ Kaliningrad ~ Architecture ~ Architecture ~ Putin

Jan. 9, 2003: #7009

Regions, Putin Reform	1	PUTIN ESTABLISHES ORDER AT THE REGIONAL LEVEL. Regional and local governments face changes in relations with Moscow	Izvestia
Military Strength	2	NUMERICAL STRENGTH OF RUSSIA'S ARMED FORCES	RIA Novosti
Iraq	3	Russian General: US Should Target Saddam, Not Iraqi People	Dow Jones/ AP
Labor, AFL-CIO Deportation	4	Russia Turns Away U.S. Labor Activist	Moscow Times Natalia Yefimova
Chechnya, Rebel Website	5	Rebel web site ridicules Moscow's efforts to establish order in Chechnya	BBC Monitoring
Chechnya, Zakayev Extradition	6	NOT ALL CHECHENS HAVE THEIR FINGERS SHOT OFF BY ZAKAYEV	RIA Novosti commentary
Financial Reform, IMF Report	7	Financial Sector Reform in Russia: Recent Experience, Priorities, and Impact on Economic Growth and Stability	IMF
2002 Economic Review	8	Russian Economy 2002: Paying Foreign Debt, Suffering from Poverty. Russian economic growth is provided by only two major cities.	pravda.ru
NATO Expansion	9	Watching NATO Grow. (re OPENING NATO'S DOOR How the Alliance Remade Itself for a New Era by Ronald D. Asmus)	Washington Post book review Robert Kaiser
Oil, OPEC	10	Moscow Renewing Cooperation With OPEC	RFE/RL Michael Lelyveld
Kaliningrad	11	Kaliningrad - Russia in Europe?	Rosbalt
Architecture	12	Raising High the Russian Roof Beams	New York Times Design Dispatch John Varoli
Architecture	13	The Czar Didn't Sleep Here. (re usadby)	The New York Times Design Dispatch Sophia Kishkovsky,
Jimmy Carter, Putin	14	Putin as Russia's Reagan	Matthew Maly