JRL #5554 Contents:
1. Reuters: Chechen says optimistic after Moscow talks.
2. AP: Kremlin Starts Talks With Chechens.
3. Reuters: Low oil prices could dim Russia growth
hopes-Kudrin.
4. Moscow Times: Natalia Yefimova, Will Bonhomie Smooth
Bumpy Road?
5. Victor Kalashnikov: US-Russia friendship.
6. Christian Science Monitor: Francine Kiefer, Ties warm
despite gap on missile shield. Bush and Putin align against terror - and for a
broader US-Russia relationship.
7. Financial Times (UK): Andrew Jack, Russian oil chief
rejects calls for export cuts. (Khodorkovsky)
8. BBC Monitoring: Russia TV investigates "secret
recruitment" for Afghan war in Russia.
9. The Observer (UK): Burhan Wazir, India's Left rails
against 'perverse' movie on Lenin.
10. Wall Street Journal: Guy Chazan, Putin's Diplomacy
Causes Fear in Russia Of Making Too Many Concessions to U.S.
11. Boston Globe editorial: Putin on the line.
12. AP: Rice: U.S. Nearing Arms Treaty Limit.
13. The New Republic: Peter Beinart on why we'll avoid the
USSR's fate in Afghanistan.