1. Reuters: Jon Boyle, From foe to friend U.S.-Russia
ties on the mend.
2. BBC Monitoring: Russia's Putin addresses Americans in
English.
3. AP: Bush Decides on Nuclear Weapons.
4. Washington Times: Nicholas Kralev, Bush won't save ABM
Treaty.
5. Wall Street Journal: Pavel Felgenhauer, Do the
Terrorists Have Nukes?
6. Peter Lavelle: Untimely Thoughts - The Kremlin's
discipline call and Putin's two front war (re the fight against corruption and
the new foreign policy)
7. Washington Post: Eric Pianin, Lawmakers Seek Russia
Initiatives.
8. Congressional news conference on US-Russia Partnership-A
New Time, A New Beginning.
9. Kyodo: Russia will not ratify Kyoto pact if interests
ignored: report.
10. The Times (UK): Richard Beeston, Putin's Saddam visit
angers Blair and Bush.
11. Washington Times: Helle Bering, Beware Russians
expecting gifts.
12. BBC Monitoring: Russian youth movement to back Putin
for now says leader.
13. Baltimore Sun: Will Englund, Tajikistan embraces
alternatives to war. Afghans' neighbor labors to regain pre-conflict dream.
14. Demokratizatsiya: Sally Stoecker, The End of the
Insular State?