1. Reuters: Russia ends Cold War chapter by quitting
Cuban spy base.
2. BBC Monitoring: Putin announces withdrawal from Cuban
and Vietnamese bases.
3. BBC Monitoring: Russian defence capability said
unaffected by closure of bases abroad.
4. BBC Monitoring: USA should reciprocate for closure of
Russia's foreign bases, says analyst.
5. Luba Schwartzman: ORT Review.
6. Moscow Times editorial: No Wonder The Mood Is So Upbeat.
(re economy)
7. The Independent (UK): Steve Crawshaw, Chechnya doctor
accuses West of ignoring brutality.
8. AFP: US to press Russia on Chechnya in Shanghai talks:
Powell.
9. The Nation: Stephen Cohen, 2nd Chance With Russia.
10. BBC Monitoring: Businessman Kokh keen to buy Gazprom's
media empire.
11. Christian Science Monitor: Fred Weir, From the cold
war, lessons in combating anthrax. Russia offers stockpiles of vaccine and
bioweapons research to the US.
12. Carnegie: Anatol Lieven, Fighting Terrorism: Lessons
from the Cold War.
13. strana.ru: Sergei Markov, "The Enlargement of
Agencies is Politics" A fundamental administrative reform will be its
logical continuation.
14. Baltimore Sun: S. Frederick Starr, Afghan Northern
Alliance makes a dangerous friend.
15. Reuters: Breakthroughs unlikely at Shanghai Bush-Putin
talks.