JRL #5576 Contents:
1. Reuters: Russian navy chiefs axed, experts see Kursk
link.
2. AFP: Gorbachev leaves hospital, no engagements for a
week: Interfax.
3. BBC Monitoring: Return of Yeltsin to CIS scene - TV
shows Russian leader thanking him.
4. Interfax: Putin hails party merger, warns against
"ruling party" tag.
5. Interfax: Russia investment abroad outstrips foreign
investment at home.
6. The Sunday Times (UK): Russians in Kabul on spying
mission. THE Kremlin has sent a group of intelligence agents to Kabul to gather
information about Chechen followers of the Taliban, writes Mark Franchetti.
7. BBC Monitoring: Russian Communist leader comments on
merging congress of power party.
8. BBC Monitoring: Newspaper gives line-up and media
leanings in Kremlin split.
9. strana.ru: Gleb Pavlovsky: “Kremlin-3.” Controversy
between officials displayed in press may open the way to “a third force.”
Political scientist Gleb Pavlovsky gives Strana.Ru his view on tough political
polemics in the Russian media.
10. Moscow Tribune: Stanislav Menshikov, US RECESSION IS
NOW OFFICIAL. But Russia Has Yet To Determine Its Policies.
11. Robert Bruce Ware: West Missed bin Laden's Nuclear
Wake-up Call from Chechnya
12. Jeffrey Barrie: re 5575-Pro-Putin Parties/Russian
Party of Pensioners.
13. The Russia Journal: Gordon Hahn, U.S. administration
learns to look right way. After a decade of misguided policy, Russia is no
longer seen as a threat.