1. Washington Post: John Newhouse, A New Alliance Could
Nudge Aside the Old.
2. UPI: Ustinov: Second blast fatal for Kursk.
3. AFP: Dmitry Zaks, From Cornerstone To Relic: Russia
Makes Painful Shift On ABM.
4. Baltimore Sun: Will Englund, Turn of seasons, terns of
the sea. Ornithologist: Decades spent at a remote nature reserve have left a
scientist more in tune with Arctic birds than with the tourists the Russian
government wants to send him.
5. Newsday: Liam Pleven, World's Largest Anthrax Burial
Ground. Many fear germ will be carried from Uzbek island.
6. The Russia Journal: Vladimir Mukhin, Splintered
loyalties in anti-Taliban alliance.
7. Washington Post: Susan B. Glasser and Peter Baker, Putin
Faces Strong Pressure To Cash In on Russia's Support.
8. The New Republic Online: Benjamin Smith, Power Failure.
Citizens of former Soviet states know what a crumbling empire looks like and
think we're next.
9. Financial Times (UK): BOOKS: Civilisation and its
discontents: John Lloyd on how Russia's window on the west, a 'hero city' in
war, survives in peacetime. (St. Petersburg)