JRL #5561 Contents:
Happy Thanksgiving Day!
1. Boston Globe: Joanna Weiss, To a Russian, with lust.
2. Interfax: Russia appreciates West's change of heart on
Chechnya - security chief.
3. Moscow Times: Andrei Zolotov Jr., Civic Activists Storm
the Kremlin.
4. Vremya Novostei: VLADIMIR PUTIN: STATES ARE JUDGED BY
THE LEVEL OF INDIVIDUAL LIBERTY. Excerpts from President Vladimir Putin's speech
at the Civil Forum.
5. Luba Schwartzman: ORT Review.
6. Reuters: Russia ready for deeper oil output cut.
7. The Economist (UK): OPEC v Russia.
8. BBC Monitoring: Russian economic expert finds positive
aspects to oil-price fall. (Sergey Vasilyev)
9. Interfax: Russia should not join OPEC - Putin's aide.
(Illarionov)
10. Moscow Times editorial: Russia Right To Brush Off OPEC.
11. Peter Lavelle: Untimely Thoughts - Unity as banality
(re The Unity Party and its most recent irrelevant victory).
12. Reuters: NATO chief urges new level of ties with
Russia.
13. Financial Times (UK): Andrew Jack, Russia seeks more
parity with Nato: Putin approves move towards reforming Russian armed forces in
a step that may eventually end conscription.
14. Argumenty i Fakty: Olga Gladkova, PUTIN'S OBSCURE
FOLLOWERS. Analysis of President Vladimir Putin's economic team.
15. Itogi: Leonid Radzihovsky, Peace After War. Russia and
the U.S. must realize they are united not by the "common criminal" bin
Laden, but by a common civilization.