JRL #5587 Contents:
1. BBC Monitoring: Prior of Moscow's monastery says
Putin is a true believer.
2. UPI: Russia may extend presidential term.
3. AFP: Putin says Russia still seeking full NATO voice.
4. AFP: US-Russia relations "fundamentally
improved" - Powell.
5. New York Times: Patrick Tyler, In Spat Over Russia in
NATO, Rumsfeld Loses Out to Powell.
6. AP: Soviet Collapse Anniversary Marked.
7. Interfax: Theft impossible from Russian nuclear
enterprises - official.
8. Moscow Tribune: Stanislav Menshikov, RUSSIA CHOOSES OPEC
But Better Stabilising Schemes Are Possible.
9. Interfax: Russian nationalist leader Zhirinovskiy
ditches anti-West stance.
10. The Russia Journal: Otto Latsis, No progress on
housing reform.
11. New York Times letter: Boris Jordan, Control of
Russian TV.
12. Financial Times (UK): Andrew Jack, Ruins of a republic
still at war. CHECHNYA RECENT ATTEMPTS TO RESTORE NORMAL LIFE HAVE HAD LITTLE
SUCCESS.
13. Krasnaya Zvezda: EQUAL RUSSIA-USA PARTNERSHIP AN
EARNEST OF GLOBAL STABILITY.
14. Anatol Lieven, Morality and Reality in Approaches to
War Crimes: The Case of Chechnya.